Globalisation and European Integration

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.

"…the chapters dovetail nicely with those written by authors who have come to this topic more recently (Owen Parker, Hubert Buch-Hansen and Angela Wigger, Jan Drahokoupil and Martin Myant), or bring new aspects to the discussion (Werner Bonefeld, Bob Jessop, Andreas Bieler). Furthermore, the concluding chapter by Peter Nousios and Andreas Tsolakis does an excellent job in looking forward to the years ahead." – Ian Bruff, Loughborough University, in Capital & Class February 2013 vol. 37 no. 1"This book provides a highly topical exploration of recent developments in the political economy of European integration. As an edited collection, the book is remarkable in that it has a consistent focus, and analyses are drawn from similar (although obviously not identical) perspectives throughout. [...] The book provides an excellent overview of these debates and arguments – providing rich empirical analysis, and insightful and nuanced theoretical elaboration and description – and will rightly become a major and lasting contribution to the field." - David J. Bailey, University of Birmingham, in Political Studies Review September 2013 vol. 11 issue. 3

• 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-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