This volume adds a comparative capitalism perspective to EU integration scholarship in order to demonstrate that ever-closer union is not capable of accommodating diversity in national economic institutions.

Alison Johnston is Associate Professor and the U.G. Dubach Chair in Political Science in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA.

Aidan Regan is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin, Ireland, and the director of the Dublin European Institute.

Introduction: Is the European Union Capable of Integrating Diverse Models Of Capitalism?

Alison Johnston and Aidan Regan

1. Better Than the Euro? The European Monetary System (1979-1998)

Martin Höpner and Alexander Spielau

2. Exporting Assets: EMU and the Financial Drivers of European Macroeconomic Imbalances

Gregory W. Fuller

3. The Political Economy of Austerity in Southern Europe

Sofia A. Perez and Manos Matsaganis

4. Skill Formation, Immigration and European Integration: The Politics of the UK Growth Model

Steve Coulter

5. Celtic Phoenix or Leprechaun Economics? The Politics of an FDI-led Growth Model in Europe

Aidan Regan and Sam Brazys

6. European Integration, Capitalist Diversity and Crises Trajectories on Europe's Eastern Periphery

Dorothee Bohle