Von der Entgrenzung zur Eingrenzung: Krise und Wandel der europäischen Integration

Abstract

The “polycrisis” of the European Union (EU) presents integration research with major conceptual and theoretical challenges. In the interest of an adequate understanding of current developments in European integration, this contribution argues for opening the dominant concept of integration in order to systematically include the integration of the EU’s external boundaries and to overcome its liberal bias. In this perspective, the current change in European integration consists mainly in external rebordering. It constitutes a correction of the pre-crisis type of debordering integration - a correction, which is conducive to the consolidation of European integration in principle.