The recent financial crisis may have seemed initially to vindicate the European efforts to manage globalization, but it also represented the limits of such efforts without the full participation of the US and China. The EU cannot rig the game of globalization, but it can try to provide predictability, oversight, and regularity with rules that accommodate European interests.
This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.
Wade Jacoby is professor of political science and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Jacoby has published articles in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, The Review of International Political Economy, The Review of International Organizations, and many other journals. Jacoby received the DAAD Prize for his scholarship on Germany and the EU in 2006 and was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in 2009-2010.
Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and the Co-Director of the European Union Program at Princeton. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005); and the co-editor of Making History: European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty (Oxford University Press, 2007).