The Complexity of the European Integration – The General Vectors of Disorientegration

Abstract

The paper transcends prevailing literature on the crisis of European integration by demonstrating that disorientegration (losing orientation and weakening integration) is not a recent fortuitous event but a systemic pattern. It shows how the centrifugal force towards weakening European integration has developed by asking what are the general non-EU specific vectors of such a gradient. We argue that disorientegration is an echo effect of a complex amalgam of intertwined mechanisms secularly shaping the European integration process. Our paper also outlines the critical mass of conceptual prerequisites of reversing the European disorientegration.