This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European
level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010. Europe's crisis of legitimacy …

The financial crisis reaped its academic casualties. Asking why economists had not seen it
coming, Queen Elizabeth surprisingly became emblematic for those finding their …

Since the advent of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, a key turning point in terms of the
crystallisation of opposition towards the European Union (EU), Euroscepticism has become …

This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of
the Cold War to the present, offering an integrated analysis of both continuity and change …

From bank bailouts to austerity, Europe's and Ireland's response to the economic crisis has
been engineered specifically to shift the burden of paying for the crisis onto ordinary citizens …

For something that is often described as a faceless Brussels bureaucracy, the European
Union (EU) surprises in its ability to provoke contradictory public emotions, ranging from …

Although a literature on the transnational capitalist class (TCC) began to form in the 1970s,
along with the first stirrings of neoliberal public policy, these intersecting phenomena have …

The study of the capitalist class has always, in a sense, been linked to that of globalization,
insofar as Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (1848), in The Communist Manifesto, originally …

Abstract How have European Union institutional actors sought to build, defend or undermine
the legitimacy of crisis management during the euro crisis? Scholars have tended to …

European integration is a fundamentally open-ended and contested process. Within the
'mosaic of European integration theories', critical political economy perspectives highlight …