Against the backdrop of combating the financial and economic crisis in the European Union for
the past decade this volume strives to explore the manifold impacts the prevailing crisis
management has on the further alignment of European Integration. The efforts targeted at
overcoming the financial and economic crisis evoked far-reaching consequences on the societal
economic and political level within European member states which in turn challenge the
institutional alignment democratic legitimacy and economic coherence of the European Union.
Taking into account current developments in the EU the contributions presented in this volume
focus on the ¿fault lines¿ in the integration process i.e. questions of policy coherence
democratic accountability financialization militarization migration gendered social and
economic asymmetries as well as the rise of populist and extreme right-wing parties. The volume
focuses on how these different developments come together by relating aspects of
transdisciplinary research to uncover the fault lines in the European integration project in
the subsequent chapters. ContentEconomic and Democratic Governance ¿ Right Wing Populism and
Right Extreme Parties ¿ Financialization and Militarization ¿ Social Exclusion Welfare and
Migration Policies EditorsProf. (FH) Dr. Stefanie Wöhl University of Applied Sciences BFI
Vienna. Prof. (FH) Dr. Elisabeth Springler University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. Mag.
Martin Pachel University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. Dr. Bernhard Zeilinger University of
Applied Sciences BFI Vienna.
