Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe : The Restructuring of European Social Relations in the Global Political Economy

by Bieler, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9780333913215
• ISBN10: 0333913213
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-08-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe argues that the revival of European integration in the mid-1980s and the emergence of a "New Europe" have to be analyzed against the background of globalization and the transnational restructuring of social forces since the early1970s. The contributors work from a range of diverse-but-similar critical perspectives that draw from the functionalist and intergovernmentalist approaches.

Author Biography

Andreas Bieler is Lecturer and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Neunham and Seluya College, University of Cambridge.

Adam David Morton is Doctorial Candidate in the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Robert W. Cox
Acknowledgements	xiii
Notes on the Contributors	xiv
List of Abbreviations	xvii
Part I Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Issues
Introduction: Neo-Gramscian Perspectives in International Political Economy and the Relevance to European Integration	3	(22)
Andreas Bieler
Adam David Morton
The Sociology of Theorising and Neo-Gramscian Perspectives: The Problems of `School' Formation in IPE	25	(22)
Adam David Morton
Part II Transnational Capital and the Neo-Liberal Restructuring of European Social Relations of Production
Constitutionalising Capital: EMU and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism	47	(23)
Stephen Gill
The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of `Embedded Neo-Liberalism'	70	(23)
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Part III European Trade Unions and the Problems of Neo-Liberal Integration
European Constitutionalism and Industrial Relations	93	(22)
Hans-Jurgen Bieling
Strength Through Unity? A Comparative Analysis of Splits in the Austrian, Norwegian and Swedish Labour Movements over EU Membership	115	(22)
Andreas Bieler
Stina Torjesen
Neo-Liberal Regionalism and the Management of People's Mobility	137	(24)
Helene Pellerin
Henk Overbeek
Part IV European Integration and the Expansion of Neo-Liberalism beyond the EU
The Enlargement of the European Union Towards Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Supranational and Transnational Actors	161	(24)
Otto Holman
What Happened to the European Option for Eastern Europe?	185	(22)
Kees van der Pijl
Part V Concluding Remarks
Conclusion: Thinking about Future European Social Relations	207	(11)
Andreas Bieler
Adam David Morton
Bibliography	218	(21)
Index	239