This book analyses the intertwined crises facing the European Union within their global context through the lens of critical political economy. Challenging conventional narratives of European integration, it explores the power structures, inequalities, and socio-political implications that underpin modern European politics.
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'Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis is a clear-eyed and incisive account of how the multiple overlapping crises facing European capitalism are exacerbating the inherent contradictions of the European project. The critical political economy lens used by the authors allows them to highlight the challenges facing Europe's elites as they attempt to resolve these crises without upsetting the balance of power within European civil society. An important contribution to the understanding of capitalism in Europe and the institutions tasked with managing it.' -- Grace Blakeley, staff writer at Tribune Magazine and author of Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom 'Notwithstanding the hopes that the pandemic would bring about a more solidaristic approach, this book shows the continuous dominance of neoliberal politics and policies. Not only the recent Re-Arm project testifies of the abandonment of a vision of a peaceful Europe, but competition and exclusion emerge on central issues going from health to labour and from energy to the environment. Besides describing the neoliberal developments, Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis helps however in uncovering the potential resistance to intersectional inequalities by singling out its classed, gendered and racialised dynamics.' -- Donatella della Porta, Professor and Director of Centre of Social Movements Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, Italy
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Höhe: 234 mm
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978-1-0353-4793-3 (9781035347933)
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Edited by Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
Contents
1 Contesting European integration in times of polycrisis: an
introduction 1
Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone
PART I CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE
POLYCRISIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
2 Towards a critical political economy of migration, borders,
and racism in the European Union 16
Nikolai Huke
3 Europe's new fiscal governance in context: a state-theoretical
perspective 32
Magnus Ryner
4 The new EU industrial policy mitigating the investment crisis:
crowding in financial capital and crowding out democracy
and labour 46
Angela Wigger
5 Mandatory corporate sustainability due diligence and its
limitations: the persistence of unequal exchange 62
Riccardo Fornasari and Vincenzo Maccarrone
6 The housing crisis and the contradictions of neoliberal
residential capitalism in Europe: a critical approach 76
Giuseppe Montalbano and Lindsay B. Flynn
PART II CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE
POLYCRISIS IN AND BEYOND THE EUROPEAN UNION
7 A feminist political economy approach to affordable housing
and social reproduction in the polycrisis 93
Stefanie Woehl
8 Healthcare systems commodification between national and
EU economic governance: Greece, Italy, and Romania from
the economic to the COVID-19 crisis (2008-2022) 107
Costanza Galanti and Stella Christou
9 Crises, conditionality, and the commodification of local
public services: the case of Italy 127
Darragh Golden
10 Garment-footwear industry and the devaluation of labour:
uneven and combined production networks in Europe's
peripheries 142
Francesco Bagnardi
PART III CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE
EUROPEAN ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
11 The EU between neoliberal and reformist green finance: a
regulationist and global perspective 159
Ewa Dziwok and Johannes Jaeger
12 Solving the European crisis in social reproduction?
Sustainability and justice in the European semester after the
Green Deal 173
Rosalind Cavaghan
13 Derogating, de-risking, and pooling: processes of Energy
Union (dis)integration 190
Ruben Vezzoni
PART IV CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EUROPEAN
FOREIGN POLICY
14 Greening the European economy at the expense of other
world regions? Tracing the EU's quest for green hydrogen in
Chile 206
Julia Eder and Jakob Rammer
15 Driving unequal exchange: EU 'free trade' policy and the EU:
Mercosur negotiations 222
Andreas Bieler
16 Re-routing globalization: polycrisis, Europe's decline and the
crisis of Atlanticism 237
Alan W. Cafruny and Vassilis K. Fouskas
17 Turkey's EU membership debate within a historical
conjuncture of European polycrisis 253
Elif Uzgoeren
PART V CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE RISE
OF THE FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE
18 The road to God-knows where? The polycrisis and the
European radical right 272
Owen Worth
19 A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on
Berlusconism and its afterlives 287
Daniela Caterina, Adriano Cozzolino, Gemma Gasseau and
Davide Monaco
20 Constructing illiberal counterhegemony: Orban's
transnational project as consequence and cause of Europe's
polycrisis 302
Jasper P. Simons, Miklos Sebok and Ilona Szabo
21 Conclusion: where next for the EU? 317
Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone
