Overview
Considers the impact of neo-liberalism on the global power of European states
Explores how authoritarianism and austerity cultivates right-wing populism and racism
Draws on topical issues such as Brexit and the Euro-zone crisis
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- European Union Politics
- Political Theory of Exception
- European Nation-State
- Neo-Liberal Globilisation
- New Authoritarianism
- Euro-Atlanticism
- transnationalization
- Euro-zone crisis
- neo-imperialism
- austerity politics
- international power of Asia
- global power-shift
- international power of China
- right-wing populism
- decline of Western economies
- International Political Economy
- Brexit and European power
- Greek economic crisis
- Germany’s ordoliberal austerity
About this book
This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the transatlantic world cultivate right-wing populism and racist hysteria from below, especially in relation to the global power-shift to China and other emerging economies. The authors argue that ordoliberal/neo-liberal austerity cannot reverse the decline of western economies; if anything, it precipitates their downfall and the re-launching of globalization under Asian primacy. The book will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers across the fields of International Political Economy, European Politics and Critical Social and Political Theory.
Reviews
“This is an extraordinarily impressive, carefully researched analysis of the contemporary global crisis. Building on their previous works and situating their theoretical argument within the context of classical and contemporary theories of imperialism, Fouskas and Gökay analyze the growth and development of fault-lines as United States neo-imperialism gradually disintegrates.” (Professor Alan W. Cafruny, Hamilton College, USA)
“Well known among scholars for their insightful investigations into the difficulties experienced by the USA in maintaining its world hegemony over the last twenty-fve years, Professors Gökay and Fouskas extend their area of interest to cover, among others, the problems of the EU and the Brexit process. They make effective use of the concept of ‘global fault-lines’ they themselves developed to explain the underlying determinants of the current world situation and the emergent new authoritarianism across the transatlantic world. I highly recommend this theoretically and historically informed account.” (Professor Ben Fowkes, London Metropolitan University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Since 2008, he has been developing a historical analysis of the global financial crisis and economic downturn using the geological metaphor of ‘global fault-lines’.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism
Book Subtitle: Global Power-Shift
Authors: Vassilis K. Fouskas, Bülent Gökay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96818-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96817-9Published: 09 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07256-8Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96818-6Published: 26 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 211
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Union Politics, European Politics, International Political Economy, Political Theory