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"Drawing on a critical political economy perspective on European integration, this article argues that organized labour at the European level, mainly through the form of the ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation), has been over-reliant on the institutional structures of the European state formation, and concomitant hopes for a European social model, rather than questioning the social basis of the hegemonic project of neoliberal integration that has fundamentally engendered the current form of the EU. This argument is then revisited in the light of recent developments; even before the current crisis fault lines in this strategy have emerged, and have subsequently become more pronounced. The analysis examines the role and strategies of organized labour in the process of European integration, focusing on the shifts and continuities in its position from broad support for the Single Market project to an increasingly critical relationship with the European state formation in the context of financial and economic crisis."

"In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures are at the centre of public debates. Who controls the modern corporation, and why, has become one of the defining social power relations in contemporary capitalism. Regulation Corporate Governance in the EU fills a gap in the extensive literature on corporate governance and highlights the political nature of EU corporate governance regulation. Laura Horn advances a critical political economy perspective focusing in particular on political struggles and processes of the neoliberal transformation of company law and corporate governance regulation. Her findings about the marketization of corporate control are at the core to a better understanding of the broader context of capitalist restructuring in the European Union."

"Who controls the modern corporation and how, and to which purpose, it should be run, has become an essential question for the organisation of production in a capitalist market economy. As the distributional consequences of corporate governance, both in terms of material redistribution as well as, on a more fundamental level, the social power relations that constitute the modern corporation, have become more and more visible, political struggle over corporate governance regulation has intensified. How, then, can we understand the role of the capitalist state vis-à-vis the modern corporation, and what explains the trajectory and transformation of corporate governance regulation?
Drawing on a theoretical framework that perceives of the modern corporation as a social relation within the capitalist mode of production, rather than a functional outcome of organisational evolution, this study emphasizes the essentially political nature of corporate governance regulation.
The study focuses on the transformation of corporate governance regulation in the European Union, a process identified as the marketisation of corporate control. The analysis concentrates on the changing form, mode and content of corporate governance regulation, and seeks to discuss these changes against the broader background of capitalist restructuring in the European Union and beyond.
The main argument put forward is that the transformation of corporate governance regulation constitutes an integral part of a political project advanced by social forces against the broader background of capitalist restructuring in the European Union. In this context, the study also highlights the role of the state in creating legal and political preconditions and encouraging the development of a particular form of governance of the modern corporation."

"Sozialdemokratische Parteien befürworten nachdrücklich die europäische Integration. Dennoch ist es das europäische Projekt, das ihren Wahlchancen am meisten schadet. Der Artikel zeigt, dass der Niedergang der europäischen Sozialdemokratie im Scheitern der Politik des Dritten Weges zu verorten ist. Auf EU-Ebene zeigt sich dies einerseits im sozialdemokratischen Mitwirken der internen Abwertung durch Lohnmäßigung und Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung, wie auch der sozialdemokratischen Unterstützung des Verteidigungsfonds als Teil der neuen Industriepolitik der EU, und andererseits der sozialdemokratische Priorisierung von Wettbewerbslogiken, die die Glaubwürdigkeit von flankierenden sozialdemokratischen Projekten wie dem Europäischen Sozialmodell und der Europäischen Säule sozialer Rechte maßgeblich untergräbt."

"This handbook offers a unique approach to the question: How do scholars write the future of global politics? Written in futur antérieur style, around the 200-year anniversary of the birth of International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline, the contributions engage in world-building and imagine different futures of IR. Set in a multiverse, 23 chapters draw on a range of possible themes and imaginaries, for instance post-pandemic conditions, the Anthropocene, and not least academic practices and the role of researchers. A concluding chapter anchors these explorations in contemporary discussions.

The book mirrors the format and style of existing handbooks, combining outlines and discussions of theories, structures, processes, and core issues in IR with an academic science fiction account of how these might play out over the course of the next century. In doing so, the book challenges IR and provides alternative imaginaries, rather than predicting future conditions for all humanity. The book invites readers to reflect on how thinking about the future has become an increasingly radical, but more than ever necessary act. "