Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalisation and European integration: the nature of the beast / Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek and Andreas Tsolakis -- The global financial crisis and the European Union: the irrelevance of integration theory and the pertinence of critical political economy / Alan Cafruny and Magnus Ryner -- Neo-liberal Europe and the transformation of democracy: on the state of money and law / Werner Bonefeld -- A Foucauldian perspective on the ethics of Eu(rope): genealogies of liberal government / Owen Parker -- The world market, variegated capitalism, and the crisis of European integration / Bob Jessop -- The ascendancy of neoliberal competition regulation in the European community / Angela Wigger and Hubert Buch-Hansen -- The European sub-prime? financial crisis and the east-European periphery / Jan Drahokoupil and Martin Myant -- The Rhineland and the heartland. European integration in the north Atlantic context / Kees van der Pijl -- European globalisation and world order politics / Hans-Jürgen Bieling -- Globalisation and European integration: the internal and external dimensions of neo-liberal restructuring / Andreas Bieler -- Global capitalist crisis and the future of the European project / Henk Overbeek -- The contested reconstruction of the belle époque? Europe 2020, transnational capitalism and the political economy of global restructuring / Petros Nousios and Andreas Tsolakis.