Arguing convincingly that mainstream theory lacks the tools to adequately explain European integration, this challenging book draws upon critical political economic theory to develop a more comprehensive and consistent analysis of the processes of integration. Although not claiming that states have ceded their role as 'masters of the treaties, ' the contributors develop innovative case studies of national and transnational processes to illustrate the salience of trans-European business networks and the primacy of neoliberalism as central organizing concepts of the post-Maastricht European project
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Introduction: The Study of European Integration in the Neoliberal Era
Alan W. Cafruny and Magnus Ryner
Part I: The European Union and Neoliberal Hegemony
Chapter 1: Theories of European Integration: A Critique
Bastiaan van Appeldoorn, Henk Overbeek, and Magnus Ryner
Chapter 2: A Neo-Gramscian Approach to European Integration
Stephen Gill
Chapter 3: Structure and Process in Transnational European Business
Otto Holman and Kees van der Pijl
Chapter 4: The Geopolitics of U.S. Hegemony in Europe: From the Breakup of Yugoslavia to the War in Iraq
Alan W. Cafruny
Part II: Neoliberal Hegemony and the State
Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Commitments: Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Process of European Monetary Integration
Leila Simona Talani
Chapter 6: Diminishing Expectations: The Strategic Discourse of Globalization in the Political Economy of New Labour
Colin Hay and Matthew Watson
Chapter 7: The Changing Political Economy of France: Dirigisme Under Duress
Ben Clift
Chapter 8: Disciplinary Neoliberalism, Regionalization, and the Social Market in German Restructuring
Magnus Ryner
Part III: The European Union beyond Neoliberalism?
Chapter 9: "Competitive Restructuring" and Industrial Relations within the European Union: Corporatist Involvement and Beyond
Hans-Jürgen Bieling and Thorsten Schulten
Chapter 10: Cultural Policy and Citizenship in the European Union: An Answer to the Legitimation Problem?
Giles Scott-Smith
Chapter 11: Europe, the United States, and Neoliberal (Dis)Order: Is There a Coming Crisis of the Euro?
Alan W. Cafruny
