Globalisation and European Integration Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms. Divided into three parts, this book offers both empirical and theoretical analyses of social integration, supranationality and global competition. Drawing on Critical Political Economy research, Neo-Gramscian, Open Marxist, Regulationist and Post-structuralist scholars subject a wide range of European flagship policies in matters of competition, trade and security to critical scrutiny and relate them to global political economy dynamics. Contributors examine the ways in which current global economic turbulence has affected the European Union, its membership and its adjacent areas, and determine the potential for economic and political transformation in light of the global economic crisis and Europe’s 2020 Strategy. In the emerging multi-polar world, in which the EU and the US are expected to share global policymaking with new powers, this book argues for a revised conceptualisation of European integration and its relationship with globalisation. Globalisation and European Integration will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of globalisation, political economy, international relations, and European Union politics.

Part I: Explaining European Integration: Critical Approaches 1. Globalisation and European Integration: The Nature of the Beast Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek and Andreas Tsolakis 2. The Global Financial Crisis and the European Union: The Irrelevance of Integration Theory and the Pertinence of Critical Political Economy Alan Cafruny and Magnus Ryner 3. Neo-liberal Europe and the Transformation of Democracy: On the State of Money and Law Werner Bonefeld 4. A Foucauldian Perspective on the Ethics of EU(rope): Genealogies of Liberal Government Owen Parker Part II: Supranationality and International Competition 5. The World Market, Variegated Capitalism, and the Crisis of European Integration Bob Jessop 6. The Ascendancy of Neoliberal Competition Regulation in the European Community Angela Wigger and Hubert Buch-Hansen 7. The European sub-prime? Financial crisis and the East-European periphery Jan Drahokoupil and Martin MyantPart III: Europe in the Global Political Economy 8. The Rhineland and the Heartland. European Integration in the North Atlantic Context Kees Van der Pijl 9. European Globalisation and World Order Politics Hans-Jürgen Bieling 10. Globalisation and European Integration: The Internal and External Dimensions of Neo-Liberal Restructuring Andreas Bieler 11. Global capitalist crisis and the future of the European project Henk Overbeek Part IV: Conclusions 12. The Contested Reconstruction of the Belle Époque? Europe 2020, Transnational Capitalism and the Political Economy of Global Restructuring Petros Nousios and Andreas Tsolakis

Petros Nousios is a doctoral candidate of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Henk Overbeek is Professor of International Relations and Head of Department in the Department of Political Science at the VU University Amsterdam. Andreas Tsolakis is an Institute of Advanced Study postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick and analyst at the Fundación Secretariado Gitano in Madrid.