Preface

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: The Study of European Integration in the Neoliberal Era

Alan W. Cafruny

Magnus Ryner

Part I The European Union and Neoliberal Hegemony

Theories of European Integration: A Critique

Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

Henk Overbeek

Magnus Ryner

A Neo-Gramscian Approach to European Integration

Stephen Gill

Structure and Process in Transnational European Business

Otto Holman

Kees van der Pijl

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

The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Commitments: Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Process of European Monetary Integration

Leila Simona Talani

Diminishing Expectations: The Strategic Discourse of Globalization in the Political Economy of New Labour

Colin Hay

Matthew Watson

The Changing Political Economy of France: Dirigisme under Duress

Ben Clift

Disciplinary Neoliberalism, Regionalization, and the Social Market in German Restructuring

Magnus Ryner

Part III The European Union beyond Neoliberalism?

``Competitive Restructuring'' and Industrial Relations within the European Union: Corporatist Involvement and Beyond

Hans-Jurgen Bieling

Thorsten Schulten

Cultural Policy and Citizenship in the European Union: An Answer to the Legitimation Problem?

Giles Scott-Smith

Europe, the United States, and Neoliberal (Dis) Order: Is There a Coming Crisis of the Euro?

Alan W. Cafruny

Index

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