Written against a background of global economic and political turmoil, including
crisis and uncertainty surrounding the European Union, European Regionalism and
the Left offers new critical insights into a range of fundamental problems
facing the project of European integration. Issues covered include: the limits
and possibilities of European Monetary Union; the impact of European regionalism
on the political organisations of the European left; European regionalism and
the crisis of social democracy; Russia and the limits to EU regionalism; and the
contradictions of Eurocentric politics in an age of globalisation. The book
brings together contributions from international scholars drawing on a rich
diversity of critical approaches to international political economy, European
integration studies, European politics and social theory. Unlike many earlier
critical studies of this subject, European Regionalism and the Left consciously
eschews any specific radical theoretical narrative or research programme in
favour of an open-ended critical engagement with the political economy of
contemporary Europe. As such it attempts to open up left analyses of Europe to
broader traditions of critical inquiry.