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3. Contributors

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

4. Index

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

6. Back Cover

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

18. Acronyms and Abbreviations

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

20. Acknowledgements

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

21. Tables and Figures

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

22. Front Cover

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Satgar, Vishwas, Carroll, William K, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Christie, Isham, Bieler, Andreas, and Jordan, Jamie

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2010

23. Capitalism’s Crises

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Bieler, Andreas, Carroll, William K., Christie, Isham, Damodaran, Sumsngala, Heywood, Mark, Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Jordan, Jamie, Saad-Filho, Alfredo, Reddy, Niall, Wainwright, Hilary, and Satgar, Vishwas

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politics & government, international relations, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government, bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations
Abstract

"The contributors to this volume draw on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. Their analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or defeatist claims. At the same time the volume situates left agency within actual patterns of resistance and class struggle to clarify the potential for transformative change. The cycle of resistance strengthened by the World Socal Forum and transnational activism is now punctuated by the experience of the Arab Spring, the agency of anti-systemic movements, left think tanks, the Occupy Wall Street Movement, labour unions, left parties in Europe such as Syrizia and Podemos and peoples' budgeting in Kerala, India. On the down side, we are witnessing the waning of the Workers Party in Brazil and serious challenges for South Africa's once powerful labour movement and still formative social justice activism. All these developments are assessed in this volume. This is the second volume in the Democratic Marxism series. It elaborates on crucial themes introduced in the first volume, Marxism in the 21st Century: Crisis, Critique and Struggle (edited by Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar)."

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2015
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36. Austria's and Sweden's accession to the European Community : a comparative neo-Gramscian case study of European integration

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Bieler, Andreas

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320, JZ International relations
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Since the 1 January 1995, Austria and Sweden have been members of the European Community (EC). This thesis analyses why the two countries joined the EC at a moment, when the latter's development towards a neo-liberal economic policy embodied in the Internal Market and the convergence criteria of the Economic and Monetary Union endangered their traditional Keynesian economic policy making and when the steps towards a Common Foreign and Security Policy threatened Austria's and Sweden's policies of neutrality. It is argued that the process leading to application and then the struggle around the referenda on membership in Austria and Sweden have to analysed against the background of globalisation, a structural change experienced since the early 1970s and characterised by the transnationalisation of production and finance and a shift from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism. Established theories of integration, which take existing power structures as given, are unable to explain instances of structural change. Consequently, a critical theory derived from neo-Gramscianism is developed as an alternative for the investigation of Austria's and Sweden's accession to the EC. Most importantly, its focus on social forces, engendered by the production process, allows the approach to conceptualise globalisation. Applied to the Austrian and Swedish case, it is established that alliances of internationally-oriented and transnational social forces of capital and labour respectively, supported by those institutions linked to the global economy such as the Finance Ministries, were behind the drive towards membership in the neo-liberal EC. While they succeeded in their undertaking, the forces opposed to the EC and neoliberalism should not be underestimated. Nationally-oriented labour and capital in Austria and labour mainly from the public sector in Sweden together with the Green Parties in both countries may well mount a successful challenge in the future. Changes in the international structure, although not of primary importance, implied that neutrality was no big obstacle to EC membership in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Gorbachev's liberal foreign policy and a general decline in the power of the Soviet Union in the case of Austria and the end of the Cold War in the case of Sweden allowed the pro-EC forces in both countries to redefine neutrality in a way that made it compatible with membership.

Published
1998

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