European Integration: Global Strategy for Waning Powers

Böröcz, József (2011) European Integration: Global Strategy for Waning Powers. Perspectives on Europe, 41 (1). pp. 35-39.

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Abstract

This brief argument summarizes an alternative to the mainstream literature along two lines of critiques: - the first two decades of scholarship on the post-state-socialist transformation by and large ignored the astounding power of EU-based corporate capital on the transformation; - writing on the EU sidestepped the historical social sciences of global power and competition. This paper argues that the EU can be meaningfully regarded as a collective response by west European capital, states and, to a lesser extent, also citizenries, to the global challenges posed to them by global geopolitical competition. "Eastern Enlargement" has been a very fruitful, but ultimately limited, remedy to such concerns.

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