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What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice 'at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies currently face the result of globalisation or are they domestically generated? How can we advance social justice in the light of the new social realities? In this volume, leading international experts offer compelling answers to these questions. The aim of this volume is to articulate a modern conception of social justice that remains relevant for.

This book offers the first comprehensive political analysis of the Euro crisis and its impact on democratic politics in the EU. Leading scholars provide political, economic, legal, and sociological perspectives on the main issues at stake and evaluate the prospects of a more legitimate and democratic Europe.

Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise and control global market capitalism. So, in the aftermath of the 2008 crash prompted by the failure of US financial services conglomerate, Lehman Brothers, this book addresses a deceptively simple question: what is to be done?

From fatalism to fraternity: governing purpose and the good society / Patrick Diamond -- Social democracy in a global era / Luke Martell -- Debt and deficits: the quest for economic competence / Andrew Gamble -- The mechanics of markets: politics, economics and finance / John Kay -- Social democracy at the end of the welfare state? / Peter Taylor-Gooby -- Equality, social trust and the politics of institutional design / Bo Rothstein -- Progress and social policy: two-and-a-half cheers for education / Lane Kenworthy -- Social cohesion, culture politics and the impact of migration / René Cuperus and Mark Elchardus -- Identity, community and the politics of recognition / Michael Kenny -- The power of European integration: choice and purpose for centre-left politics / Olaf Cramme -- Back to the future: towards a red-green politics / John McTernan -- Globalisation challenges to centre-left internationalism / John Lloyd -- The squeezed middle and the new inequality / Liam Byrne -- Citizen engagement and the quest for solidarity / Henry Tam -- Cooperation, creativity and equality: key concepts for a new social democratic era / Tobias Dürr and Robert Misik -- Afterword : the new social democracy / Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond.

The policy brief is the first outcome of the four-year project 'Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe' which started in April 2012 and aims at providing the analytical basis for a new European growth path towards a socio-ecological transition. It identifies the blind spots of the institutional changes embarked on by the EU in the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis, and puts forward a combination of short-term and long-term measures in order to make an exit strategy compatible with the requirements of an economically dynamic, socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable Europe. The first section analyses the main features of the reformed governance framework and shows that the recent push towards integration does not fundamentally correct the flawed and self-contradictory features of Maastricht's institutions. A second section weighs different exit strategies and shows that the short-term logic of insurance and adjustment needs to be completed by the long-term vision of a sustainable economic union. The option of a smaller Eurozone is not considered as a viable road for all the economic and political costs it represents. The final section formulates recommandations to EU policy-makers with the view both to overcome the debt crisis and to lay the ground for a socio-ecological transition in Europe. In doing so, it pays particular attention to three kinds of trade-offs and tensions that have emerged throughout the crisis: the potential clash between adjustment and social cohesion ; the uncertainty on how to combine a more integrated Eurozone with a Community-based EU-27; the conflicting demands for more sovereignty and more democracy against a backgroung of deeper integration.