EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: Return of the King
If there ever was a question of who is boss in Europe, NATO or the European Union, the war in Ukraine has settled it, at least for the foreseeable future. Once upon a time, Henry […]
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Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Engels’s Second Theory: Technology, Warfare and the Growth of the State
Friedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself. Born in 1820 in the Rhineland town […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Ukraine War: Europe Shackles Itself to America’s Reckless Foreign Policy
Two months into the war on Ukraine, why have Europeans allowed the US, which is of course not part of Europe, to dictate reckless policies against Russia over what are purely European issues? Is this […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Losers All Round
Western unity is back. When Western Europe returns to “the West”, the European Union is reduced to a geo-economic support service provider for the benefit of NATO, i.e. the United States. Wolfgang Streeck is the […]
Economics
RevDem Podcast – Wolfgang Streeck
Wolfgang Streeck, highly interesting as always, on a variety of topics: EU, empire, democracy, capitalism, loss of workers’ power, neo-liberalism Watch Here
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Absent Without Leave:The European Union in the Corona Pandemic
How did the European Union respond to the Covid-19 pandemic? The first part of the paper analyzes the logic of the EU’s multi-level politics as it relates to the relationship between national and supranational decision-making […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: In the Superstate
Review of Christopher J. Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (2021), Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read Here
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Waking sleeping dogs
As the possibility of revising the Treaties has stalled, the Commission and Parliament have asserted the right to intervene in the national politics and legal systems of member states. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Angela Merkel’s empty leadership
Her pious promises didn’t solve anything Read here
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – The mysteries of European defence policy
When it comes to the German political elite, what matters most is transferring wealth to the rich and themselves, everything else is just a pother. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director of Director the Max […]