Contradictions and limits of neoliberal european governance: from Lisbon to Lisbon

An ambitious volume that sets out to analyse the nature, contradictions and limits of neoliberal governance in the EU. The analysis covers the changing geopolitical and geo-economic context, the Lisbon agenda and the contestation andmobilization against the European project, such as manifested in the nationalresistance against the constitution. ÍNDICE: Introduction: Towards a Critical Political Economy of European Governance - - PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF THE EUROPEAN NEOLIBERAL PROJECT -The Contradictions of b Embedded Neoliberalismb and Europeb s Multi-level Legitimacy Crisis: the European Project and its Limits; - B. van Apeldoorn - Neoliberal European Governance and the Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Critique of the New Malthusians; M. Ryner - Geopolitics and Neoliberalism: U.S.Power and the Limits of European Autonomy; A. Cafruny - - PART II: CASE STUDIES OF EUROPEAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC REGULATION - Global Finance and the European Economy: the Struggle over Banking Regulation; H.-J. Bieling and J. JC$ger - b New Europeansb for the b New European Economyb : Citizenship and the Lisbon Agenda; S. Hager - Organic Intellectuals at Work? The High Level Group of Company Law Experts in European Corporate Governance Regulation; L. Horn - - PART III:THE WIDENING OF NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE: TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALISM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE - Corporate Tax Reform in Neoliberal Europe: East Central Europe as a template for deepening the neoliberal European Integration project? A. Vliegenthart and H. Overbeek - Race to the Bottom? Transnational Companies and Reinforced Competition in the Enlarged European Union; D. Bohle - The Rise of the Competition State in the VisegrC!d four: Internationalization of the State as a Local Project; J. Drahokoupil - - PART IV: CONTESTING NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE: RESISTING RESTRUCTURING IN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ARENAS - A National Case-study of Embedded Neoliberalism and its Limits: The Dutch Political Economy and the b Nob to the European Constitution; B. van Apeldoorn - Globalization and regional integration: the possibilities and problems for trade unions to resist neo-liberal restructuring in Europe; A. Bieler -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-53709-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés