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Books by E. Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks: Since the End of the Cold War

This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold... more This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold War to the present. Developing its own theoretical framework and offering a rich and rigorous empirical analysis based on extensive primary it provides an integrated analysis of both continuity and change. The book argues that the post-Cold War American grand strategy has continued to be oriented to securing an ‘open door’ to U.S. capital around the globe, but that the three different administrations that have been in office in the post-Cold War era have pursued this goal with varying means: from Clinton’s promotion of neoliberal globalization to Bush’s ‘war on terror’ and Obama’s search to maintain US primacy in the face of a declining economy and a rising Asia.
In seeking to make sense of both these strong continuities and these significant variations the book takes as its point of departure the social sources of grand strategy (making), analyzing the social background of the grand- strategy makers themselves and the networks of social relations of which they are part. Drawing on a unique data-set that consists of extensive biographical data of 30 cabinet members and other senior foreign policy officials of each of the past three administrations of Clinton, G.W. Bush and Obama, this study’s main finding is that America’s post-Cold War foreign policy elite has been firmly embedded in America’s corporate elite dominated by transnationally oriented capital.
This book is of great use to specialists in International Relations – within International Political Economy, International Security and Foreign Policy Analysis, as well as students of U.S. Politics.

Neoliberalism in Crisis

OUT NOW! The global crisis following the subprime mortgage crisis in the US in 2007 led many co... more OUT NOW!
The global crisis following the subprime mortgage crisis in the
US in 2007 led many commentators to predict the death of neoliberalism. However, the window of opportunity that may have existed in 2008 to subordinate global finance to effective regulation prioritizing social equity was seemed to rapidly closing in the fall of 2008. It appeared that the interests behind the neoliberal hegemonic project succeeded in strengthening their position domestically and in integrating potentially counterhegemonic forces globally. This book analyzes some of the key dynamics of this process.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the life course of the neoliberal project and the global crisis.
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Henk Overbeek

PART ONE: BEYOND NEOLIBERAL REGULATION?

2. The unfolding contradictions of neoliberal competition regulation and the global economic crisis. A missed opportunity for change?
Angela Wigger and Hubert Buch-Hansen

3. After shareholder value? Corporate governance regulation, the crisis, and organized labour at the European level.
Laura Horn

4. Investment bank power and neoliberal regulation: from the Volcker shock to the Volcker rule.
Sandy Brian Hager

5. Price wars: the crisis and the future of financialized capitalism
James Perry and Paul Lewis

PART TWO: AFTER NEOLIBERAL WORLD ORDER?

6. The rise of the ‘B(R)IC Variety of Capitalism’: Towards a new phase of organized capitalism?
Andreas Nölke

7. Sovereign Wealth Funds in the global political economy: the case of China
Henk Overbeek

8. The rise of National Oil Companies: transformation of the neoliberal global energy order?
Naná de Graaff

9. The end of neoliberalism in contemporary Latin America?
Andreas Tsolakis

10. Beyond neoliberal imperialism? The crisis of American empire.
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and Naná de Graaff

The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation

This ambitious volume explores the politics of recent changes in corporate governance regulation ... more This ambitious volume explores the politics of recent changes in corporate governance regulation and the transnational forces driving the process.

Corporate governance has in the 1990s become a catchphrase of the global business community. The Enron collapse and other recent corporate scandals, as well as growing worries in Europe about the rise of Anglo-Saxon finance, have made issues of corporate governance the subject of political controversies and of public debate.

The contributors argue that the regulation of corporate governance is an inherently political affair. Given the context of the deepening globalization of the corporate world, it is also increasingly a transnational phenomenon. In terms of the content of regulation the book shows an increasing reliance on the application of market mechanisms and a tendency for corporations themselves to become commodities. The emerging new mode of regulation is characterized by increasing informalization and by forms of private regulation. These changes in content and mode are driven by transnational actors, first of all the owners of internationally mobile financial capital and their functionaries such as coordination service firms, as well as by key public international agencies such as the European Commission.

The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation will be of interest to students and researchers of international political economy, politics, economics and corporate governance.

Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance - From Lisbon to Lisbon

This ambitious volume analyses the contradictions and tensions at the heart of European integrati... more This ambitious volume analyses the contradictions and tensions at the heart of European integration, economically as well as politically, and reveals the surprising ways in which these contradictions and tensions have manifested themselves. Concerned with the systemic logic or, indeed, illogic of European governance, it seeks to de-naturalize and deconstruct neoliberalism in the European Union. The contributions illustrate the complicity of key social forces in the spread of neoliberalism and finance-led economic strategies and identify the more or less active strategic role of specific social forces in establishing, guiding, mediating, or resisting its logic.

The individual chapters include analyses of the changing geopolitical and geo-economic context; the politics of welfare state retrenchment, the Lisbon agenda; the struggle over banking and corporate governance regulation; the Eastward expansion of the EU; and of the contestation and mobilization against the European project, such as manifested in the national resistance against the Constitution as well as several other instances of (trans)national resistance.

'This is an outstanding collection which captures like no other current work the deeper causes of the continuing quagmire of European integration. Covering the period from the European Council's 2000 Lisbon agreement to the rejection of the Constitution and Irish no to the Lisbon treaty, it highlights the inherent problems of neoliberal regulation as applied by the EU. With several chapters devoted to the latest round of enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the book powerfully demonstrates the limits of one-sided financial regulation and social downsizing. Written by specialists who in no way can be suspected of an anti-European agenda, the book is testimony to what a progressive, pluralist approach to the study of integration can achieve.' - Kees van der Pijl, University of Sussex, UK

'Focusing on social struggles over the hegemony of the European project, this edited volume takes stock of the politics of neo-liberal restructuring in the European Union since the Lisbon Summit. The contributors provide convincing analyses of the bias towards liberalisation inherent in the European Integration process, but also point towards emerging contestation, countermovements and the potential for European re-regulation. Anyone with an interest in the state of affairs of European politics at the intersection of International Political Economy and Comparative Political Economy should not miss this important contribution.' - Martin Höpner, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany

Introduction: Towards a Critical Political Economy of European Governance
PART I: THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF THE EUROPEAN NEOLIBERAL PROJECT
The Contradictions of 'Embedded Neoliberalism' and Europe's Multi-level Legitimacy Crisis: the European Project and its Limits;
B.van Apeldoorn
Neoliberal European Governance and the Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Critique of the New Malthusians; M.Ryner
Geopolitics and Neoliberalism: U.S. Power and the Limits of European Autonomy; A.Cafruny
PART II: CASE STUDIES OF EUROPEAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC REGULATION
Global Finance and the European Economy: The Struggle over Banking Regulation; H.-J.Bieling & J.Jäger
'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy': Citizenship and the Lisbon Agenda; S.Hager
Organic Intellectuals at Work? The High Level Group of Company Law Experts in European Corporate Governance Regulation; L.Horn
PART III: THE WIDENING OF NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE: TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALISM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Corporate Tax Reform in Neoliberal Europe: East Central Europe as a Template for Deepening the Neoliberal European Integration Project? A.Vliegenthart & H.Overbeek
Race to the Bottom? Transnational Companies and Reinforced Competition in the Enlarged European Union; D.Bohle
The Rise of the Competition State in the Visegrád Four: Internationalization of the State as a Local Project; J.Drahokoupil
PART IV: CONTESTING NEOLIBERAL GOVERNANCE: RESISTING RESTRUCTURING IN NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ARENAS
A National Case-study of Embedded Neoliberalism and its Limits: The Dutch Political Economy and the 'No' to the European Constitution; B.van Apeldoorn
Globalization and Regional Integration: The possibilities and Problems for Trade Unions to Resist Neo-liberal Restructuring in Europe; A.Bieler

This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European... more This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes.

Papers by E. Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

Transnational class agency, the rise of ‘embedded neo-liberalism’ and the evolving European order

Book Review: Britain and Ireland: Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power

Political Studies Review, Aug 7, 2013

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Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2009

Neo-mercantilism versus neo-liberalism in the relaunching of Europe

De dialoog aangaan met Venezuela is beter dan een interventie

Trouw, Feb 13, 2019

Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration

1. Theoretical Perspective: Social Forces and the Struggle Over European Order 2. Global Restruct... more 1. Theoretical Perspective: Social Forces and the Struggle Over European Order 2. Global Restructuring, Transnational Capitalism and Rival Projects for European Order 3. The European Roundtable: an Elite Forum of Europe's Emergent Transnational Capitalist Class 4. The Roundtable's Changing Strategic Project and the Transnational Struggle over European Order 5. Transnational Class Agency, the Rise of 'Embedded Neo-Liberalism' and the Evolving European Order References

Vernieuw de democratie: leg het kapitaal aan banden!

Hoezo geven de Amerikanen niet veel uit, in plaats van de Europeanen te weinig?

De mondiale geopolitieke economie en de crisis van de elite van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan 2019 document... more De mondiale geopolitieke economie en de crisis van de elite van Apeldoorn, Bastiaan 2019 document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication in VU Research Portal citation for published version (APA) van Apeldoorn, B. (2019). De mondiale geopolitieke economie en de crisis van de elite. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.

Transnational capitalism and the struggle over European order

Defence date: 29 January 1999Examining board: Prof. Colin Cruch (EUI, supervisor) ; Prof. Otto Ho... more Defence date: 29 January 1999Examining board: Prof. Colin Cruch (EUI, supervisor) ; Prof. Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam, external supervisor) ; Prof. Thomas Risse (EUI) ; Prof. Wolfgang Streeeck (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung)PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017This thesis presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes

Oxford University Press eBooks, Dec 13, 2018

Edited by the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" The KFG Working Paper Se... more Edited by the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" The KFG Working Paper Series serves to disseminate the research results of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe by making them available to a broader public. It means to enhance academic exchange as well as to strengthen and broaden existing basic research on internal and external diffusion processes in Europe and the European Union.