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Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Intellectual Background: Rationale for the Handbook -- References -- Part I: Theory -- 2: The Transatlantic Imperium After the Global Financial Crisis: Atlanticism Fractured or Consolidated? -- Imperialism: Europe and America -- The USA, Europe, and the New Cold War -- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Critical Global Political Economy and the Global Organic Crisis -- A Critical Perspective on Global Political Economy

The salience of supranational structures of governance in-
creased dramatically during the last decade. The World
Trade Organization (WTO) and North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), for example, not only establish de-
tailed norms, rules, and decision-making procedures but also
endow supranational governing boards with sweeping powers
of enforcement. The European Monetary Union (EMU)
greatly constrains national sovereignty by eliminating na-
tional currencies and allowing the European Central Bank to
play a key role in national economic policymaking. In his
study of NAFTA and the European Monetary System
(EMS), Lloyd Gruber contends that international relations
scholars have had difficulty coming to grips with the trend
toward global governance because the dominant theoretical
approaches-neoliberalism and neorealism-tend to assume
incorrectly that international cooperation produces mutual
benefits for all contracting parties.