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\"The new challenges and opportunities created by the spread of globalization have reshaped both institutional and individual responses to this phenomenon. This comprehensive analysis of the way in which governments and firms have responded to globalization examines closely the options available to both, and the historical and institutional contexts to the strategic decisions made.\" \"This rigorous survey focuses on political, ideational and economic factors lying behind these responses to globalization. It is essential reading for all those interested in globalization, international business and international political economy.\"--Jacket.

This rigorous survey and companion volume to Coping with Globalization , focuses on the political, ideological and economic factors lying behind responses to globalization. A panel of international experts examine subjects which include; * The international monetary system after the Euro * The response of the Japanese software industry to globalization * The dynamics of globalization strategy in South Korea * Australian integration into the global economy * The impact on China and Russia in their moves toward a market economy

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization should be theorized in terms of: globalization major social transformations that are not exclusively spear-headed by the EU the wider context of the transformation of modernity. This fascinating book broadens the terms of the debate on Europeanization, conventionally limited to the supersession of the nation-state by a supra-national authority and the changes within member states consequent upon EU membership. Demonstrating the relevance of social theory to contemporary issues and with a focus on European transformation rather than simplistic notions of Europe-building, this truly multidisciplinary volume will appeal to readers from a range of social science disciplines, including sociology, geography, political science and European studies.

This book provides a balanced introduction to diverse political economy perspectives on different aspects of European integration, demonstrating both the importance and the potential of research in this area. The volume includes three types of chapters: broad literature reviews, narrower applications of existing arguments, and new syntheses of competing claims. The authors also present a critical appraisal of how scholars in the EU and US use theory to understand European integration, and examine issues such as citizens' attitudes, perceptions and preferences of actors, the role of non-state actors, principle-agent questions, and the role and the autonomy of European institutions. This empirically informed and methodologically rigorous volume will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of comparative political economy, EU studies, international political economy and international organizations. Erik Jones is the Resident Associate Professor of European Studies at Johns Hopkins Bologna Center, Italy. He is also a co-director of the European Union Political Economy interest section of the European Union Studies Association in the U.S. and is the European Editor of the Industrial Relations Journal . Dr. Amy Verdun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada. She is also the Director of the European Studies Program. Dr. Verdun serves as the President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee 3 (RC-3) on European Unification. European Responses to Globalization and Financial Market Integration. Perceptions of EMU in Britain, France and Germany, International Political Economy Series, Basingstoke: Macmillan/ New York: St. Martin's Press, 260 p. 2000 Paperback was published in July 2002. The Kosovo Crisis: Transatlantic National Perspectives and Implications for Future Defence Cooperation. Osvaldo Croci and Amy Verdun (eds), Manchester: Manchester University Press(forthcoming, 2005), Institutional Challenges to the European Union in the Wake of Eastern Enlargement, Amy Verdun and Osvaldo Croci (eds), Manchester: Manchester University Press (2005), The Euro: European Integration Theory and Economic and Monetary Union, edited by Amy Verdun, Boulder Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield (2002), Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy, edited by Thomas C. Lawton, James N. Rosenau and Amy C. Verdun, Aldershot/Burlington USA/Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate, 453 p. (2000). Introduction: Political Economy and European Integration Erik Jones and Amy Verdun 1. An American/European Divide in European Integration Studies: Bridging the gap with international political economy Amy Verdun 2. Non-State Actors and False Dichotomies: Reviewing IR/IPE approaches to European integration Maria Green Cowles 3. The Principal-Agent Approach and the study of the European Union: Promise unfulfilled? Hussein Kassim and Anand Menon 4. Idiosyncrasy and Integration: Suggestions from comparative political economy Erik Jones 5. The Role of Organized Interests in the European Political Economy Justin Greenwood 6. Imagined European Unions: Perceptions of the EU and support for EU enlargement Maurits van der Veen 7. European Monetary Integration and Class Strategies: The federation of German industry's position on monetary union from Bretton Woods to EMU Marcus Pistor 8. The EU and Inter-Regional Cooperation: Interests, preferences and structural power Mary Farrell 9. Understanding New Forms of European Integration: A study in competing political economy explanations Waltraud Schelkle 10. The Political Economy of European Integration in a Spatial Model Robert Pahre Conclusion: Convergence and divergence in the study of european political economy: Anatomy of a research agenda Erik Jones and Amy Verdun

NAFTA entered into force in 1994 after a bitter Congressional debate. But NAFTA in operation has proved no less controversial than NAFTA before ratification, for both supporters and opponents of trade liberalization have cited experience with the agreement to justify their positions. To provide a factual basis for this ongoing debate, the authors evaluate NAFTA's performance over the first seven years, comparing actual experience with both the objectives of the agreement's supporters and the charges of its critics. They then examine future challenges and opportunities in the trade and investment relationships among the three partner countries and the broader implications for new trade initiatives throughout the hemisphere.

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914--the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.

There is widespread consensus among the authors of this report that the benefits accruing to the 10 Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) joining the European Union-Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia--will outweigh the costs, especially in the long run. At the same time, pressures may intensify for certain economic, social, and political groups. This report seeks to identify such groups so that measures can be designed to ease the accession process. More generally, accession will require policy adjustments on the parts of both the CEECs and the EU. The first ten chapters focus on the challenges facing the accession countries, particularly the likely consequences of EU integration for specific economic, social, and political groups, including identification of the potential beneficiaries f accession and the groups at risk. Chapter 11 discusses the challenges facing the EU as it integrates the CEECs. The report concludes with a study of the lessons for the CEEC candidates from Portugal's accession experience. This experience is relevant because Portugal, like the CEECs, saw integration with the EU as the appropriate next step following the emergence of a democratic political system; and joined the EU more recently than many EU members when its level of economic development was relatively comparable to that existing in many of the CEECs today.

As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically. How fast and how far European integration will proceed are critical issues for scholars and policymakers in Europe and the United States. Barry Eichengreen and Jeffry Frieden have assembled a group of prominent economists and political scientists to discuss the most important--and most difficult--political and economic issues involved in European integration. The book focuses on three major issues: economic and monetary union, the reform and development of responsive political institutions for the Union, and the enlargement of the Union to include states to the east. In examining these issues, the writers consider such prob-lems as the trade-off between the benefits of international economic cooperation and the ability to pursue domestic welfare policies; how to increase the political accountability of the institutions of the EU; and how the EU can both be enlarged in membership and deepened in terms of the powers given community institutions. The contributors are Steven Arndt, Peter Bofinger, Christian de Boisseu, Michele Fratianni, Geoffrey Garrett, Jurgen von Hagen, Ander Todal Jenssen, Ken Kletzer, Lisa Martin, Jonathan Moses, Jean Pisani-Ferry, and Michael Wallerstein, in addition to the editors. Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government, Harvard University.