Dr. James Hollifield
Can the European Union Survive the Refugee Crisis
and Brexit?
Can the European Union Survive the Refugee Crisis
and Brexit?
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4 November, 2016 Tucson Country Club, 11:30am Reception - 12pm Lunch
Over the centuries, great empires have risen and fallen in Europe, leaving behind distinct groups of people with different histories, languages and cultures. After two millennia of constant and massive internal wars, any project attempting to fuse these disparate cultures into one semi-monolithic state over the course of just 70 years would inevitably encounter obstacles and levels of nationalistic resistance and eventually the project would stall. That is the point where we now find the European Union. Its members are suffering internal divisions caused by the refugee crisis, the reestablishment of border controls, increased threats from terrorism, economic crises in member states, fear of additional “Brexits”, and a diminished willingness of Germany, the core member of the EU, to continue saving the EU periphery.
Will the EU survive these strains and will Britain find a path to economic integration with Continental Europe? To look ahead and assess these problems we welcome Dr. James Hollifield.
Dr. Hollifield is Professor of Political Science and Ora Nixon Arnold Fellow in International Political Economy, and Director of the Tower Center at SMU. He has worked for a variety of governmental and intergovernmental organizations and has published widely on international political and economic issues, including Immigrants, Markets, and States: Controlling Immigration, and numerous other books and scientific articles.
His research looks at how states manage migration for strategic gains. During the academic year (2015-16) he was on leave as Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars in Washington, DC, and he is completing a book, entitled The Emerging Migration State.
LUNCHEON - REGISTER NOW - CLICK HERE
Meal Selections include:
Chicken strawberry orange salad
Seared herb roasted pork loin
Vegetable lasagna.
4 November, 2016 Tucson Country Club, 11:30am Reception - 12pm Lunch
Over the centuries, great empires have risen and fallen in Europe, leaving behind distinct groups of people with different histories, languages and cultures. After two millennia of constant and massive internal wars, any project attempting to fuse these disparate cultures into one semi-monolithic state over the course of just 70 years would inevitably encounter obstacles and levels of nationalistic resistance and eventually the project would stall. That is the point where we now find the European Union. Its members are suffering internal divisions caused by the refugee crisis, the reestablishment of border controls, increased threats from terrorism, economic crises in member states, fear of additional “Brexits”, and a diminished willingness of Germany, the core member of the EU, to continue saving the EU periphery.
Will the EU survive these strains and will Britain find a path to economic integration with Continental Europe? To look ahead and assess these problems we welcome Dr. James Hollifield.
Dr. Hollifield is Professor of Political Science and Ora Nixon Arnold Fellow in International Political Economy, and Director of the Tower Center at SMU. He has worked for a variety of governmental and intergovernmental organizations and has published widely on international political and economic issues, including Immigrants, Markets, and States: Controlling Immigration, and numerous other books and scientific articles.
His research looks at how states manage migration for strategic gains. During the academic year (2015-16) he was on leave as Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars in Washington, DC, and he is completing a book, entitled The Emerging Migration State.
LUNCHEON - REGISTER NOW - CLICK HERE
Meal Selections include:
Chicken strawberry orange salad
Seared herb roasted pork loin
Vegetable lasagna.
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