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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455479003321

Autore

Bieler Andreas <1967, >

Titolo

Globalisation and enlargement of the European union : Austrian and Swedish social forces in the struggle over membership / / Andreas Bieler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-61422-5

1-280-33552-1

0-203-46124-X

0-203-25322-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation ; ; 2

Disciplina

337.1/42

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Austria Economic conditions 1945-

Sweden Economic conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: theories of integration and Austria's and Sweden's accession to the European Union; a critique and alternative; Austria and Sweden in an era of global structural change; Social forces and the struggle for application in Austria and Sweden; The conflict over the EU referenda in Austria and Sweden; Austria's and Sweden's accession to the EU and the changing security structure; The future enlargement of the EU towards Central and Eastern Europe

Conclusions: globalisation, EU enlargement and the limits of neo-liberalismNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union (EU). This book examines why these two countries joined at such a moment and studies their accession against the structural background of globalization. In this cutting-edge analysis, Andreas Bieler argues that conventional neo-functionalist and intergovernmentalist theories fail to explain such structural change as they take existing power



structures as given. Therefore, he develops a neo-Gramscian perspective as an alternative approach to European integration.