European regionalism and the left /

Written against a background of global economic and political turmoil, including crisis and uncertainty surrounding the European Union, European Regionalism and the Left offers new critical insights into a range of fundamental problems facing the project of European integration. Issues covered inclu...

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Other Authors: Strange, Gerard, Worth, Owen, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : global change, European regionalism and the left / Gerard Strange and Owen Worth
  • pt. I. European regionalism, neoliberalism and world order. US power and the crisis of social democracy in Europe's second project of integration / Magnus Ryner
  • The discursive construction of neoliberalism : the EU and the contested substance of European economic space / Ben Rosamond
  • The euro and open regionalism in the politics of 'permanent renegotiation' and the international political economy of monetary power : a critical engagement with 'new constitutionalism' / Gerard Strange
  • pt. II. Europe and the transformation of the left. Europeanisation of the left : cooperation or competition? / Michael Holmes and Simon Lightfoot
  • The impossibility of social democracy : from unfailing optimism to enlightened pessimism in the 're-social democratisation' debate / David J. Bailey
  • Cooption or resistance? : trade unions and neoliberal restructuring in Europe / Andreas Bieler
  • Beyond the third way : regionalism and socialist renewal in Europe / Owen Worth
  • pt. III. The limits and potentials of greater European regionalism. Habermas on Europe : a critique / Lawrence Wilde
  • The edges of Europe : the 'eastern marches' and the problematic nature of a 'wider Europe' / Neil Robinson
  • Conclusions : critical analysis, war of manoeuvre, war of position : neoliberalism and the prospects for a renewed left politics in the EU / Ray Silvius and Randall Germain.