Introduction.- 1. Traditional Narratives: Traditional theory.- 2. Critical Political Economy .- 3. The Single Market: Consolidating neoliberalism .- 4. Origins and Development of EMU: Money and finance in the European Union.- 5 The Welfare State: Whither the social dimension.- 6. Core and Periphery in an Enlarged European Union.- 7. The American Challenge Revisited: The lengthening shadow of U.S. hegemony.- 8. The European Union, the Global South, and the Emerging Powers.- Conclusion: The ordo-liberal iron cage.
