Critical Political Economy

Abstract: European integration is a fundamentally open-ended and contested process. Within the ‘mosaic of European integration theories’, critical political economy perspectives highlight the imbalances and structural power asymmetries of the European project, and how they have become manifest in the multiple crises in Europe. How to account for both the origins and consequences of this crisis has become a key question for scholars and students of European integration. We argue that critical political economy (CPE) has an important and unique contribution to make here. Unlike other approaches, CPE seeks to uncover the deep connections between the (internal) dynamics of the European integration process and the dynamics of global capitalism, arguing that European integration, or disintegration for that matter, takes place in a global, structural context that shapes and conditions both form and content of the integration process. In this paper, we provide an overview of the key concepts, method

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 26 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Erstveröffentlichung
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
KFG Working Paper Series ; Bd. 87

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2018
Creator
Contributor
Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57757-6
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Apeldoorn, Bastiaan van
  • Horn, Laura
  • Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"

Time of origin

  • 2018

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