European regionalism and the left
Edited by Gerard Strange and Owen Worth
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- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8573-4
- Pages: 224
- Price: £85.00
- Published Date: November 2012
Description
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 include: the limits and possibilities of European Monetary Union; the impact of European regionalism on the political organisations of the European left; European regionalism and the crisis of social democracy; Russia and the limits to EU regionalism; and the contradictions of Eurocentric politics in an age of globalisation.
The book brings together contributions from international scholars drawing on a rich diversity of critical approaches to international political economy, European integration studies, European politics and social theory. Unlike many earlier critical studies of this subject, European Regionalism and the Left consciously eschews any specific radical theoretical narrative or research programme in favour of an open-ended critical engagement with the political economy of contemporary Europe. As such it attempts to open up left analyses of Europe to broader traditions of critical inquiry.
Reviews
"this strikes me as an extremely interesting and valuable volume which will appeal not only to scholars of European integration and political economy, but also those working in the field of International Political Economy. Its succinct and accessibly written chapters and breadth of coverage also mean that it is likely to serve as a useful primer for university courses on the EU. Finally, its suggestions for improving the effectiveness of 'the left' make it useful reading for such organisations as progressive political parties, trade unions and other like-minded social movements in Europe."
(Gabriel Siles-Brügge, Political Studies Review Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2014)
Contents
Introduction: Global Change, European Regionalism and the Left
Gerard Strange and Owen Worth
PART ONE: European Regionalism, Neoliberalism and World Order
1. US Power and the Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe's 2nd Project of Integration
Magnus Ryner
2. The Discursive Construction of Neoliberalism: the EU and the Contested Substance of European Economic Space
Ben Rosamond
3. 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
PART TWO: Europe and the Transformation of the Left
4. Europeanisation of the Left: Cooperation or Competition
Michael Holmes and Simon Lightfoot
5. The Impossibility of Social Democracy: From Unfailing Optimism to Enlightened Pessimism in the 'Re-Social Democratisation' Debate
David Bailey
6. The Co-option or Resistance? Trade unions and Neoliberal Restructuring in Europe
Andreas Bieler
7. Beyond the Third Way: Regionalism and Socialist Renewal in Europe
Owen Worth
PART THREE: The Limits and Potentials of Greater European Regionalism
8. Habermas on Europe: A Critique
Lawrence Wilde
9. 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 European Union
Ray Silvius and Randall Germain
Editors
Gerard Strange is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia
Owen Worth is a Lecturer of International Relations at the University of Limerick, Ireland
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