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

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 Myant Part 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-Jurgen 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 Epoque? Europe 2020, Transnational Capitalism and the Political Economy of Global Restructuring Petros Nousios and Andreas Tsolakis