E. Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
I am a Professor of Global Political Economy and Geopolitics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I received my PhD. in the social and political sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in 1999, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne before joining the Department of Political Science at the VU University in 2000.
My research interests are within International Political Economy and International Relations. Within these I am interested in a broad array of sub-fields, in particular IR theoy, geopolitics, foreign policy analysis, international historical sociology and European integration studies. Whereas my research the past focused in particular on the political economy of European governance and socio-economic regulation within a global and transnational context, more recently my research agenda has come to include the relationship between geopolitics and global capitalism, with an empirical focus on the evolution of US grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
My publications include Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration (Routledge, 2002); Transational historical materialism: the Amsterdam International Political Economy Project (2004, editor); The Transnational Politics of Corporate Goverannce Regulation (Routledge, 2007, co-editor); Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon (Palgrave, 2009, co-editor); ) State-Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis (Routledge, 2014, co-editor); American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks (Routledge, 2016).
Phone: Phone: + 31 20 598 6897
Address: VU University Amsterdam
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
De Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
My research interests are within International Political Economy and International Relations. Within these I am interested in a broad array of sub-fields, in particular IR theoy, geopolitics, foreign policy analysis, international historical sociology and European integration studies. Whereas my research the past focused in particular on the political economy of European governance and socio-economic regulation within a global and transnational context, more recently my research agenda has come to include the relationship between geopolitics and global capitalism, with an empirical focus on the evolution of US grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
My publications include Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration (Routledge, 2002); Transational historical materialism: the Amsterdam International Political Economy Project (2004, editor); The Transnational Politics of Corporate Goverannce Regulation (Routledge, 2007, co-editor); Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon (Palgrave, 2009, co-editor); ) State-Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis (Routledge, 2014, co-editor); American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks (Routledge, 2016).
Phone: Phone: + 31 20 598 6897
Address: VU University Amsterdam
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
De Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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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.
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
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.
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
Papers by E. Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
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.
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
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.
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