Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

Name: Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Author: Andreas Bieler

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Gebonden, 352 blz. | Engels

Edward Elgar Publishing | 1e druk, 2025

ISBN13: 9781035347933

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Hoofdrubriek : Juridisch

Juridisch : Europees-internationaal recht

Jongbloed : Europees recht

Edward Elgar Publishing 1e druk, 2025 9781035347933

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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.

Expert authors examine the many factors contributing to the European polycrisis, from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic to the impending climate catastrophe. Illustrating how new disruptions have intensified existing issues, they assess how the polycrisis has shaped policies, policy-making and institutions across Europe. The book evaluates the role of gendered and racist oppression in processes of European integration, as well as the impact of the rise of the far right. Combining feminist, decolonial and ecological perspectives with a focus on exploitation and class, it demonstrates how the EU transforms and is being transformed by its position in the global political economy.

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis is an essential read for students and scholars of political economy, European politics and international relations. It is also a valuable resource for policy-makers involved in negotiating the many crises faced by the EU.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781035347933

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Aantal pagina's:352

Uitgever:Edward Elgar Publishing

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:28-10-2025

Hoofdrubriek:Europees-internationaal recht

Jongbloed:Europees recht

Inhoudsopgave

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 Wöhl
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 Jäger
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
Rubén 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 Uzgören

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: Orbán’s transnational project as consequence and cause of Europe’s polycrisis 302
Jasper P. Simons, Miklós Sebők and Ilona Szabó
21 Conclusion: where next for the EU? 317
Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone