Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

Edited by Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone

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Abstract: This book analyses the intertwined crises facing the European Union within their global context through the lens of critical political economy. Challenging conventional narratives of European integration, it explores the power structures, inequalities, and socio-political implications that underpin modern European politics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035347933
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Contesting European integration in times of polycrisis: an introduction

Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone

Ch 2 Towards a critical political economy of migration, borders, and racism in the European Union

Nikolai Huke

Ch 3 Europe's new fiscal governance in context: a state-theoretical perspective

Magnus Ryner

Ch 4 The new EU industrial policy mitigating the investment crisis: crowding in financial capital and crowding out democracy and labour

Angela Wigger

Ch 5 Mandatory corporate sustainability due diligence and its limitations: the persistence of unequal exchange

Riccardo Fornasari and Vincenzo Maccarrone

Ch 6 The housing crisis and the contradictions of neoliberal residential capitalism in Europe: a critical approach

Giuseppe Montalbano and Lindsay B. Flynn

Ch 7 A feminist political economy approach to affordable housing and social reproduction in the polycrisis

Stefanie Wöhl

Ch 8 Healthcare systems commodification between national and EU economic governance: Greece, Italy, and Romania from the economic to the COVID-19 crisis (2008–2022)

Costanza Galanti and Stella Christou

Ch 9 Crises, conditionality, and the commodification of local public services: the case of Italy

Darragh Golden

Ch 10 Garment-footwear industry and the devaluation of labour: uneven and combined production networks in Europe's peripheries

Francesco Bagnardi

Ch 11 The EU between neoliberal and reformist green finance: a regulationist and global perspective

Ewa Dziwok and Johannes Jäger

Ch 12 Solving the European crisis in social reproduction? Sustainability and justice in the European semester after the Green Deal

Rosalind Cavaghan

Ch 13 Derogating, de-risking, and pooling: processes of Energy Union (dis)integration

Rubén Vezzoni

Ch 14 Greening the European economy at the expense of other world regions? Tracing the EU's quest for green hydrogen in Chile

Julia Eder and Jakob Rammer

Ch 15 Driving unequal exchange: EU ‘free trade’ policy and the EU-Mercosur negotiations

Andreas Bieler

Ch 16 Re-routing globalization: polycrisis, Europe's decline and the crisis of Atlanticism

Alan W. Cafruny and Vassilis K. Fouskas

Ch 17 Turkey's EU membership debate within a historical conjuncture of European polycrisis

Elif Uzgören

Ch 18 The road to God-knows where? The polycrisis and the European radical right

Owen Worth

Ch 19 A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on Berlusconism and its afterlives

Daniela Caterina, Adriano Cozzolino, Gemma Gasseau and Davide Monaco

Ch 20 Constructing illiberal counterhegemony: Orbán's transnational project as consequence and cause of Europe's polycrisis

Jasper P. Simons, Miklós Sebők and Ilona Szabó

Ch 21 Conclusion: where next for the EU?

Andreas Bieler and Vincenzo Maccarrone

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