Europe and the Financial Crisis

The 2008 financial and economic crisis has had a severe impact on the world economy and in Europe in particular. The negative consequences of the crisis were much worse in Europe than in the US, despite the fact the crisis originated in the US.
The contributors to this volume examine both the general effects of the crisis on the European institutional setup, governance and architecture; and conduct more detailed country studies. They conclude that the various 'crises' hitting the European economy and polity in the recent years have clearly demonstrated structural problems that will have to be tackled and solved to avoid permanent crisis.
This book is essential reading for all interested in political economy and transition economics and for those wishing to further understand the implications of the recent financial and economic crisis in Europe.

Dr. Leila Simona Talani is Associate Professor in International and European Political Economy at King's College London. She was previously a lecturer in European Politics at the University of Bath and a research fellow and then lecturer at the European Research Institute of the London School of Economics. In 2001 she spent a year as Associate Expert on migration issues at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo Her current research interests focus on globalisation and the future of the City of London as well as the political economy of migration flows from southern Mediterranean countries to the EU. She is the author of: The Future of the City of London (Palgrave), The Global Crash (Palgrave), The Future of EMU (Palgrave), Insiders and Outsiders (Routledge), From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris), European Political Economy (Ashgate), Interests or expectations (Ashgate), Between Growth and Stability (EE), The EU and the Balkans (CSP), After Maastricht (CSP).

Pompeo Della Posta (MA, PhD) Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy. He is also external professor at the Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program in Florence, where he teaches 'European economic and monetary integration' and has been Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center.