Rafał Riedel, Full Professor in European Integration Studies and Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Systems, Opole University, Poland and Guest Professor, School of Social Sciences, Sankt Gallen University, Switzerland and Jakub Anusik, Research Associate, National Center of Science, University of Łodź and University of Opole, Poland

‘The authors provide a fascinating account of differentiated European integration on the basis of national varieties of capitalism in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The four case studies are presented with great methodological diligence, intellectual insight and theoretical reflexivity. This book sheds new light on a very diverse, yet closely connected Europe.’

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: The comparative capitalism approach toEuropean differentiated integration2 Exploring the crossroads of ‘united in diversity’ andvarieties of capitalism3 Germany as a coordinated market trendsetter at the core ofEuropean integration4 Poland: An aspiring new Member State trapped on theEU’s periphery5 Swiss exceptionalism: Integration without membership 1056 The United Kingdom: Free-marketeers and their divorcefrom the European Union7 European differentiated integration and capitalism ina comparative perspective8 Concluding the journey through diversified Europe in thepost-Brexit eraReferencesIndex

Rafał Riedel, Full Professor in European Integration Studies and Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Systems, Opole University, Poland and Guest Professor, School of Social Sciences, Sankt Gallen University, Switzerland and Jakub Anusik, Research Associate, National Center of Science, University of Łodź and University of Opole, Poland

‘The authors provide a fascinating account of differentiated European integration on the basis of national varieties of capitalism in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The four case studies are presented with great methodological diligence, intellectual insight and theoretical reflexivity. This book sheds new light on a very diverse, yet closely connected Europe.’

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: The comparative capitalism approach toEuropean differentiated integration2 Exploring the crossroads of ‘united in diversity’ andvarieties of capitalism3 Germany as a coordinated market trendsetter at the core ofEuropean integration4 Poland: An aspiring new Member State trapped on theEU’s periphery5 Swiss exceptionalism: Integration without membership 1056 The United Kingdom: Free-marketeers and their divorcefrom the European Union7 European differentiated integration and capitalism ina comparative perspective8 Concluding the journey through diversified Europe in thepost-Brexit eraReferencesIndex

Rafał Riedel, Full Professor in European Integration Studies and Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Systems, Opole University, Poland and Guest Professor, School of Social Sciences, Sankt Gallen University, Switzerland and Jakub Anusik, Research Associate, National Center of Science, University of Łodź and University of Opole, Poland

‘The authors provide a fascinating account of differentiated European integration on the basis of national varieties of capitalism in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. The four case studies are presented with great methodological diligence, intellectual insight and theoretical reflexivity. This book sheds new light on a very diverse, yet closely connected Europe.’

• ContentsPreface1 Introduction: The comparative capitalism approach toEuropean differentiated integration2 Exploring the crossroads of ‘united in diversity’ andvarieties of capitalism3 Germany as a coordinated market trendsetter at the core ofEuropean integration4 Poland: An aspiring new Member State trapped on theEU’s periphery5 Swiss exceptionalism: Integration without membership 1056 The United Kingdom: Free-marketeers and their divorcefrom the European Union7 European differentiated integration and capitalism ina comparative perspective8 Concluding the journey through diversified Europe in thepost-Brexit eraReferencesIndex