This unique and fascinating book illustrates that the 'credit crunch' and the ensuing financial and economic crisis of 2007-2009 did not only strike hard at the economy in the Western world, but also at its policymakers, at economics as a scientific discipline and, more specifically, at the...

American primacy and Europeanist responses / Peter Gowan -- European integration and the future of nation state / Jaime Pastor -- Globalization, transnational corporations and human rights / Chinsung Chung -- The European experience : the millionfold trauma of the 20th century is still virulent...