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Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Argument and structure of the book -- 1 Traditional Narratives, Traditional Theory -- The widening perspective -- The deepening perspective -- The interstate bargain perspective -- The liberal tradition and European integration -- Realism and the intergovernmentalist critique -- Conclusion -- 2 Critical Political Economy -- An alternative narrative: socioeconomic epochs -- The Red Queen Syndrome -- Open Marxism: basic functions and form of capitalist governance and the EU -- The EU and inter-capitalist rivalry: the legacies of Servan-Shreiber, Mandel, and Poulantzas -- Regulation theory: Fordism, finance-led accumulation, and the repression of social democratic alternatives -- The Amsterdam School: accumulation strategies and hegemonic projects -- Conclusion -- 3 The Single Market: Consolidating Neoliberalism -- The single market project: 'Europe 1992' -- Explaining the relaunch -- The relaunch and Europe's social model of capitalism? Possibility of synthesis? -- The single market, neoliberalism, and finance-led growth -- Conclusion -- 4 Origins and Development of the Emu: Money and Finance in the European Union -- Monetary and financial developments in Europe -- Liberal theories in trouble: the 'economics' of the EMU and financial liberalization -- The 'politics' of the EMU and financial liberalization -- Post-Keynesian and regulation theoretical alternatives -- The (non-)optimal currency area problem -- Whither Rhineland capitalism? -- Social forces in the making of European money and finance -- Conclusion -- 5 The Welfare State: Whither the 'Social Dimension'? -- European welfare capitalism -- EU social policy -- Debates over the social dimension: the pessimists versus the optimists -- Conclusion -- 6 Core and Periphery in an Enlarged European Union.