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datestamp: 2019-06-25 17:27:52
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creators_name: Coakley, Maurice
title: Ireland, Europe and the Global Crisis
ispublished: pub
subjects: H1
subjects: HJ
subjects: HM
divisions: fac_eng
full_text_status: public
keywords: Ireland, European Union, Financial crisis
abstract: For Ireland – along with Spain, Portugal and Greece – membership of ‘Europe’ was seen as an opportunity to escape their historical legacy of ‘underdevelopment’ and become fully integrated into core positions in the global system. Each of these states, and especially Ireland experienced significant growth in the European Union but once the global financial crisis struck, they suffered a deep economic and social crisis, and came to be categorised once again as ‘peripheral’ to Europe. This acute recurrence of a core-periphery divide in the European Union has been accompanied by a rapid diminution of democracy in the EU and its transformation into an increasingly coercive formation. The deprivation programmes imposed by the EU on the peripheral societies has not only damaged growth in the European economy, they have hugely diminished the legitimacy of the European integration project. The essay explores the roots of Europe’s changing power structures and assesses the implications of the Eurozone crisis for the future of the European integration project.
date: 2016
date_type: published
publication: Journal of World-Systems Research
volume: 22
number: 1
publisher: University Library System
pagerange: 177-201
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1076-156X
related_url_url: http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/634/739
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Coakley, Maurice  (2016) Ireland, Europe and the Global Crisis.  Journal of World-Systems Research, 22 (1).  pp. 177-201.  ISSN 1076-156X     
document_url: http://go.griffith.ie/206/1/jwsr-v22n1-correx.pdf