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This book will consist of a tightly organized, but thematically
wide-ranging, set of interventions in an emerging
multi-disciplinary debate on Marxist approaches to the capitalist
state. In their most general form, the basic aims of the volume are
threefold: (a) to critically examine the state, and its
juridico-political practices and institutions, in light of both
long-term and immediate concerns; (b) to rethink the conceptual
frameworks and theoretical dilemmas of Marxist state theory, with
an eye to contemporary struggles, movements, and developments; and
(c) to spark renewed interest in state theory within the broad
Marxist tradition, demonstrating its explanatory power and the
critical purchase of the analytical tools it puts on offer. The
contributors draw from a range of different tendencies, approaches,
and bodies of literature, from within the Marxist tradition of the
critique of political economy and also beyond it.
In the early 1990s the then European Community imposed for the
first time a set of economic restrictions against a specific
entity: the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola.
Since then, the individualisation of sanctions has become
entrenched, these so-called 'smart' sanctions have proliferated,
their targets and scope of application have significantly expanded,
and they operate in an increasingly juridified environment. This
book aims to shed light on the constitutive dynamics and causes of
these developments, with a focus on the juridification of
individual sanctions at the European level. To this end it first
revisits the phenomenon of individualisation - moving beyond the
conventional narrative that individual sanctions emerged because of
humanitarian and effectiveness concerns - and situates the
'smarting' of sanctions within the context of broader structural
transformations characterised by the consolidation of the global
neoliberal order. Second, the book explores why the role of law has
been so pronounced in the European context by unearthing the
connections between EU law and capitalist order building.
In the early 1990s the then European Community imposed for the
first time a set of economic restrictions against a specific
entity: the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola.
Since then, the individualisation of sanctions has become
entrenched, these so-called 'smart' sanctions have proliferated,
their targets and scope of application have significantly expanded,
and they operate in an increasingly juridified environment. This
book aims to shed light on the constitutive dynamics and causes of
these developments, with a focus on the juridification of
individual sanctions at the European level. To this end it first
revisits the phenomenon of individualisation - moving beyond the
conventional narrative that individual sanctions emerged because of
humanitarian and effectiveness concerns - and situates the
'smarting' of sanctions within the context of broader structural
transformations characterised by the consolidation of the global
neoliberal order. Second, the book explores why the role of law has
been so pronounced in the European context by unearthing the
connections between EU law and capitalist order building.
The Crisis behind the Euro-Crisis encourages dialogue among
scholars across the social sciences in an attempt to challenge the
narrative that regarded the Euro-crisis as an exceptional event. It
is suggested instead that the Euro-crisis, along with the
subsequent crises the EU has come to face, was merely symptomatic
of deeper systemic cracks. This book's aim is to uncover that
hidden systemic crisis - the 'crisis behind the Euro-crisis'. Under
this reading it emerges that what needs to be questioned is not
only the allegedly purely economic character of the Euro-crisis,
but, more fundamentally, its very classification as an 'emergency'.
Instead, the Euro-crisis needs to be regarded as expressive of a
chronic, dysfunctional, but 'normal' condition of the EU. By
following this line of analysis, this book illuminates not only the
causes of contemporary turbulences in the European project, but
perhaps the 'true' nature of the EU itself.
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