[Recensione a:] Maurizio Mistri, The Euro Crisis. An Institutionalist Approach, Padova, Padova University Press, 2021, 196 pp.

The book by Maurizio Mistri deals above all with the complex institutional system of the EU and the Euroland in particular. As the author wrote ‘the euro is an opportunity to deal with a pivotal issue, namely the determination of institutional and supranational system to ensure the governance of economic and monetary integration processes’ (p. 9). Consequently, the purpose of the book is to present some analytical tools mainly derived from a careful use of Thomas Schelling’s contributions. The centrality that Mistri gives to the author of ‘The Strategy of Conflict’ (1960) is significant: Embracing the theoretical results reached by many economists and political scientists who have followed Shelling’s lesson, Mistri clearly brings out the controversial relationship between national institutions and supranational institutions in the European reality.