The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism

This book sets out a concrete analytical and empirical framework to understand the Euro-zone crisis and the deep disintegrative tendencies of Euro-Atlantic neo-imperialism. It explores how the authoritarianism and austerity led from above in the transatlantic world cultivate right-wing populism and racist hysteria from below, especially in relation to the global power-shift to China and other emerging economies. The authors argue that ordoliberal/neo-liberal austerity cannot reverse the decline of western economies; if anything, it precipitates their downfall and the re-launching of globalization under Asian primacy. The book will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers across the fields of International Political Economy, European Politics and Critical Social and Political Theory.

Considers the impact of neo-liberalism on the global power of European states Explores how authoritarianism and austerity cultivates right-wing populism and racism Draws on topical issues such as Brexit and the Euro-zone crisis

Autorentext
Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University, UK, and the founding editor of the Journal of Global Fault-lines. Since 2008, he has been developing a historical analysis of the global financial crisis and economic downturn using the geological metaphor of 'global fault-lines'.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. The study of global politics & economics today.- Chapter 2. Global power-shift, the decline of the West and new authoritarianism.- Chapter 3. Germany's ordoliberal austerity and the European disunion.- Chapter 4. The road to Brexit.- Chapter 5. Imperial symphysis: Greece and German ordoliberalism.- Chapter 6. The disintegrative and authoritarian logics of Euro-Atlanticism.- Postscript Political Perspectives.

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