Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Neo-Gramscian Perspectives in International Political Economy and the Relevance to European Integration

      • Andreas Bieler, Adam David Morton

      Pages 3-24

   3. The Sociology of Theorising and Neo-Gramscian Perspectives: The Problems of ‘School’ Formation in IPE

      • Adam David Morton

      Pages 25-43

3. Transnational Capital and the Neo-Liberal Restructuring of European Social Relations of Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Constitutionalising Capital: EMU and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism

      • Stephen Gill

      Pages 47-69

   3. The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ‘Embedded Neo-Liberalism’

      • Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

      Pages 70-89

4. European Trade Unions and the Problems of Neo-Liberal Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. European Constitutionalism and Industrial Relations

      • Hans-Jürgen Bieling

      Pages 93-114

   3. Strength Through Unity? A Comparative Analysis of Splits in the Austrian, Norwegian and Swedish Labour Movements over EU Membership

      • Andreas Bieler, Stina Torjesen

      Pages 115-136

   4. Neo-Liberal Regionalism and the Management of People’s Mobility

      • Hélène Pellerin, Henk Overbeek

      Pages 137-157

5. European Integration and the Expansion of Neo-Liberalism beyond the EU

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. The Enlargement of the European Union Towards Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Supranational and Transnational Actors

      • Otto Holman

      Pages 161-184

   3. What Happened to the European Option for Eastern Europe?

      • Kees van der Pijl

      Pages 185-204

6. Concluding Remarks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Conclusion: Thinking about Future European Social Relations

      • Andreas Bieler, Adam David Morton

      Pages 207-217

7. Back Matter

   Pages 218-243

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The main argument of this book is 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 restructuing of social forces since the early 1970s.

• economy
• Europe
• European constitution
• European Integration
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• globalization
• management
• mobility
• political economy
• restructuring
• trade
• european union politics

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Andreas Bieler

• Department of International Politics, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

  Adam David Morton

BASTIAAN VAN APELDOORN Lecturer in International Relations, Vrije University, Amsterdam HANS-JÜRGEN BIELING Research Fellow, Political Science Department, Philipps University, Marburg ROBERT W. COX Professor Emeritus of Political Science, York University, Toronto STEPHEN GILL Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto OTTO HOLMAN Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Amsterdam HENK OVERBEEK Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Virje University, Amsterdam HÉLÈNE PELLERIN Assistant Professor in Political Science, Ottawa University KEES VAN DER PIJL Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex STINA TORJESEN M.Phil in International Relations, University of Oxford.

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