Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon

List of Tables Foreword Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Towards a Critical Political Economy of European Governance Jan Drahokoupil, Bastiaan van Apeldoom and Laura Horn Part I The Nature and Limits of the European Neoliberal Project 1 The Contradictions of 'Embedded Neoliberalism' and Europe's Multi-level Legitimacy Crisis: The European Project and its Limits Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 2 Neoliberal European Governance and the Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Critique of the New Malthusians Magnus Ryner 3 Geopolitics and Neoliberalism: US Power and the Limits of European Autonomy Alan W. Cafruny Part II Case Studies of European Socio-Economic Regulation 4 Global Finance and the European Economy: The Struggle over Banking Regulation Hans-Jürgen Bieling and Johannes Jäger 5 'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy': Citizenship and the Lisbon Agenda Sandy Brian Hager 6 Organic Intellectuals at Work? The High Level Group of Company Law Experts in European Corporate Governance Regulation Laura Horn Part III The Widening of Neoliberal Governance: Transnational Capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe 7 Corporate Tax Reform in Neoliberal Europe: Central and Eastern Europe as a Template for Deepening the Neoliberal European Integration Project? Arjan Vliegenthart and Henk Overbeek 8 Race to the Bottom? Transnational Companies and Reinforced Competition in the Enlarged European Union Dorothee Bohle 9 The Rise of the Competition State in the Visegnid Four: Internationalization of the State as a Local Project Jan Drahokoupil Part IV Contesting Neoliberal Governance: Resisting Restructuring in National and Transnational Arenas 10 A National Case-Study of Embedded Neoliberalism and its Limits: The Dutch Political Economy and the 'No' to the European Constitution Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 11 Globalization and Regional Integration: The Possibilities and Problems for Trade Unions to Resist Neoliberal Restructuring in Europe Andreas Bieler References Inde