Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance

An ambitious volume that sets out to analyse the nature, contradictions and limits of neoliberal governance in the EU. The analysis covers the changing geopolitical and geo-economic context, the Lisbon agenda and the contestation and mobilization against the European project, such as manifested in the national resistance against the constitution.

ANDREAS BIELER is Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK. HANS-JÜRGEN BIELING is Junior Professor for European integration at the Department of Political Science at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. DOROTHEE BOHLE is Associate Professor of Political Science at Central European University, Budapest. ALAN W. CAFRUNY is Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College, USA. JAN DRAHOKOUPIL is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. SANDY BRIAN HAGER is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. LAURA HORN is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. JOHANNES JÄGER is Head of the Economics Department at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna, Austria. HENK OVERBEEK is Professor of International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. MAGNUS RYNER is Professor of International Relations at Oxford Brookes University, UK. ARJAN VLIEGENTHART studied political science and history at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) and the Freie Universität (Berlin), Germany.