Examines the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades

1. Introduction 2. Theorising Competition Regulation: A Critical Political Economy Perspective 3. The Origins of European Competition Regulation I: National Level Developments 4. The Origins of European Competition Regulation II: The Supranational Level 5. European Competition Regulation in the Era of Embedded Liberalism 6. The Neoliberalisation of European Competition Regulation 7. Consolidating Neoliberalism: European Competition Regulation from the 1990s onwards 8. EC Competition Regulation at the Dawn of the Century: Modernisation, Contestation and Crisis 9. The Neoliberal Crusade for Bilateral and Multilateral Competition Rules 10. Concluding Remarks

Hubert Buch-Hansen is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School.

Angela Wigger is Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy at the Institute of Management Research at the Radboud University, The Netherlands.