The Eu Economic and Social Model in the Global Crisis ― Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book addresses the viability of the EU economic and social model within and after the global economic crisis. It identifies four key issues which warrant further discussion: (1) the asymmetry of the legal and policy framework of the euro and potential recalibration; (2) substantive tensions between the EU a€?economic constitutiona€? and its normative aim of social justice and impacts on national policy; (3) the role of civil society, including the two sides of industry in overcoming these tensions; and (4) the EUa€?s global aspirations towards the creation of a viable socio-economic model. Its chapters offer two perspectives on each of the four main issues. In drawing these debates together, the book provides a broad understanding as well as starting points for future research. Bringing together different disciplinary approaches, ranging from legal studies to political economy, sociology and macroeconomics, it is a valuable contribution to the debate on the European social model and introduces new insights by focusing on legal and political tensions, the impact of the financial crisis and other economic contexts as well as global dimensions.

Professor Dagmar Schiek is Jean Monnet ad personam Chair (EU Law & Policy), School of Law, Queena€?s University Belfast, UK. She has been a visiting professor and guest lecturer at various universities, including London School of Economics and Maastricht University. Her research interests lie in the field of European Economic and Social constitutionalism, new forms of governance in the EU involving civil society and European and international equality law. Her recent book publications include European Economic and Social Constitutionalism after the Treaty of Lisbon (Schiek, Liebert & Schneider eds, Cambridge University Press October 2011) and Economic and Social Integration: The Challenge for EU Constitutional Law, (Schiek, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2012). She is a member of the IUS COMMUNE research school (founded by the Universities of Utrecht, Leiden, Amsterdam, Maastricht and Rotterdam) and on the editorial board of the Maastricht Journal for Comparative and European Law and of Kritische Justiz (Critical Legal Studies, Germany).