When:
Thursday, November 8, 2018 12:00 PM
-
1:30 PM
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Center for European Studies
presents
The Architecture of Failure: The Institutional Origins of the Refugee Crisis
A talk by Sara Wallace Goodman, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of California, Irvine
Europe’s Refugee
Crisis—where over 1.2 million first time asylum claims were submitted in 2015
alone—was defined not only by unprecedented volume but by uncharacteristic lack
of coordination and noncompliance to EU asylum rules. How could a series of
Community policies fail to quell the very problems that integration and
coordination are designed to overcome, namely competitive state behavior like
free-riding and non-compliance? In other words, what was it about asylum policy
and the refugee crisis that facilitated not only a default to national
solutions but a defiance of EU authority? Taking an historical institutional
approach to the architecture of common asylum policy (looking at origins,
sequencing, and policy transfer), I illustrate how common asylum
policy was never defined by coordination and solidarity, nor did these goals
evolve over time. This analysis problematizes the current EU policy status quo
(“differential integration”) and considers what limited coordination in areas
of people-hood portend for EU political development and authority.
Sponsoring Departments: Center for European Studies, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Department of Political Science
For more information, contact Havva Karakas-Keles, hkarakas@syr.edu