 | ISBN: 978-1-58826-513-5 $48.00 | |
| ISBN: 978-1-58826-537-1 $18.95 | ||
| 2007/171 pages | ||
Alan W. Cafruny is Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College. For several years a visiting professor at the European University Institute (Florence), he has also served as a member of the executive committee of the European Union Studies Association. His numerous publications include, most recently, A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe (coedited with Magnus Ryner). J. Magnus Ryner is professor of international relations at Oxford Brookes University. He is author of Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way: Lessons from the Swedish Model and coeditor of Poverty and the Production of World Politics: Unprotected Workers in the Global Political Economy and A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe.
The authors eschew an idealized narrative as they explore the limits of the EU's economic and political power in relation to the United States, and of its neoliberal social and economic policies at home. They also consider the long-term prospects for the transatlantic relationship. Their work is a provocative contribution to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of Europe's contemporary predicament.
"A brilliant, polemical work of intellectual synthesis.... Cafruny and Ryner make a powerful case that Europe's continuing subordination to the US ... is undermining both the political foundations of the European project and the future of European welfare states. Anyone who prefers a more optimistic story must overcome the compelling arguments they have assembled."—Fred Block, University of California, Davis
"In this path-breaking study, Cafruny and Ryner offer a sober assessment of Europe's prospects. Theirs is an argument with which everyone concerned with the future of Europe will have to engage."—Andrew Gamble, University of Cambridge
"Europe at Bay is a well focused, incisive, and carefully argued assessment of the current state of EU integration in the Atlantic context."—Kees van der Pijl, University of Sussex