Benign or Malevolent Leviathan? Social democratic governments in a neo-liberal Euro area

Political Quarterly

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-209

  Dyson, Kenneth ^a  

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EID: 0033115521     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00221     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Speech by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French finance minister, to the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 10 November 1998.
2. A. Giddens, The Third Way, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1998 is in this respect closer to the views of Jospin and Lafontaine, argued for stabilised exchange rates, capital controls applied to speculation, taxation on foreign exchange transactions, an international regulatory framework to impose social responsibility on financial markets, and international economic policy coordination.
3. See Jospin's speech to the summer school of the French Socialist Party, 30 August 1998. For Lafontaine's views see O. Lafontaine and C. Müller, Keine Angst vor der Globalisierung, Bonn, Dietz Verlag, 1998.
4. See Jospin's speech to the summer school of the French Socialist Party, 30 August 1998. For Lafontaine's views see O. Lafontaine and C. Müller, Keine Angst vor der Globalisierung, Bonn, Dietz Verlag, 1998.
5. K. Dyson and F. Featherstone, The Road to Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
6. K. Dyson, Elusive Union: The Process of Economic and Monetary Union in Europe, London, Longman, 1994, esp. chs 6 and 7.
7. Dyson and Featherstone, The Road to Maastricht, ch. 2.
8. For this interpretation see K. Dyson, 'Using Europe to "Bind Leviathan": The Franco-German Relationship and Economic and Monetary Union', West European Politics, April 1999.
9. Recognised by the leading German official in the IGC negotiations of 1991 in H. Köhler, 'Deutschland und Europa vor der Währungsunion', speech of 18 March 1998 in Cologne, p. 9.
10. On the conditions for, and importance of, policy entrepreneurship see J. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policy, Glenview, HarperCollins, 1984.
11. This critique of globalisation was taken up in the UK by John Gray. See his False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, London, Granta, 1998.
12. R. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Vol. II: The Economist as Saviour, 1920-37, London, 1992.
13. Köhler, 'Deutschland und Europa'.
14. The paper was produced by Pierre Guidoni, international secretary of the French Socialist Party, and Norbert Wieczoreck, chair of the European affairs committee of the German Bundestag.
15. G. La Malfa and F. Modigliano, 'Attention! L'eurochômage pourrait tuer l'euro', 7 March 1998, p. 16. La Malfa was president of the Italian Republican Party.
16. P. De Grauwe, 'The Risk of Deflation in the Future EMU: Lessons of the 1990s', in J. Arrowsmith, ed., Thinking the Unthinkable about EMU, London, National Institute for Economic and Social Research, 1998, pp. 73-93.
17. For such a prediction see the financial guru G. Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, New York, Little, Brown, 1998.