1st Edition

Europe and the Management of Globalization

Edited By Wade Jacoby, Sophie Meunier Copyright 2011
176 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization.' At one level, this is merely a rhetorical device to make globalization more palatable to citizens and prove that policy-makers are still firmly in control of their country’s fate. This volume argues that the advocacy of managed globalization goes beyond rhetoric and actually has been a primary driver of major European... Read more

1. Europe and the management of globalization  Wade Jacoby (Brigham Young University) and Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)

2. The hidden face of the euro  Nicolas Jabko (Sciences Po Paris)

3. Globalizing European Union environmental policy  Dan Kelemen (Rutgers University)

4. Managed globalization: doctrine, practice and promise  Rawi Abdelal (Harvard Business School) and Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)

5. The EU, the US, and trade policy: competitive interdependence in the management of globalization  Alberta Sbragia (University of Pittsburgh)

6. Europe and the new global economic order: internal diversity as liability and asset in managing globalization  Orfeo Fioretos (Temple University)

7. The EU and financial regulation: power without purpose?  Elliot Posner (Vanderbilt University) and Nicolas Véron (BRUEGEL)

8. Managing globalization by managing Central and Eastern Europe: the EU’s backyard as threat and opportunity  Wade Jacoby (Brigham Young University)

9. Betwixt and between? The European Union’s redistributive management of globalization  Brian Burgoon (University of Amsterdam)

Biography

Wade Jacoby is professor of political science and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Jacoby has published articles in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, The Review of International Organizations, and many other journals. Jacoby received the DAAD Prize for his scholarship on Germany and the EU in 2006 and was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in 2009-2010.

Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and the Co-Director of the European Union Program at Princeton. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005); and the co-editor of Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty (Oxford University Press, 2007).