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Panel 518: Circle of Stars: A History of the European Union and the People Who Made It
Time:
Tuesday, 05/Sept/2023:
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Session Chair: Helen Drake, Loughborough University London
Location:PFC/03/006A
Book Panel on Circle of Stars: A History of the European Union and the People Who Made It (Yale University Press).
Presentations
Book Launch: Circle of Stars: A History of the European Union and the People Who Made It
Chair(s): Helen Drake (Loughborough University London)
Presenter(s): Dermot Hodson (Loughborough University London), Imelda Maher (University College Dublin), Jacob Öberg (Southern University of Denmark), Francis Jacobs (University College Dublin)
The EU is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organisations ever created. Decisions made in Brussels shape the lives of over 500 million Europeans, and its laws and policies resonate around the world. But how has the EU endured over three turbulent decades marred by crises at home and abroad? In this book, Dermot Hodson traces the development of the EU from its establishment in 1993 through to Brexit, Covid- 19, and the invasion of Ukraine. Hodson shows how the union has been held together not by faceless technocrats, but national leaders who stood together in times of turmoil, despite a fierce backlash from a new generation of right-wing populists. Circle of Stars offers a rich appraisal of Europe’s troubled past and turbulent present – focusing on the people who built the EU as we know it today.
