CPE RN Workshop Amsterdam 2006
Thursday, 31.August 2006
12.00 – 13.00 Arrival and Registration Participants, Coffee
13.00 – 13.30 Welcome speech Prof. Henk Overbeek (Chair of International Relations, VU)
13.30 – 15.30 Panel 1 – The Nature and Limits of the European Project
Chair: Henk Overbeek, Discussant: Johannes Jäger
- Varieties of Capitalism and Neo-Liberal Integration in the European Union, Frank Longstreth, University of Bath, England
- The Lisbon agenda and the legitimacy crisis of European Socio-Economic Governance: the Future of embedded neo-liberalism, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Vrije Universiteit
- Theorising European integration: A tentative outline of the Copenhagen Perspective,
- Hubert Buch-Hansen, Copenhagen Business School
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 17.45 Panel 2 – Manifestations of the European Project
Chair: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Discussant: Hans-Jürgen Bieling
- The EMU and (the Alleged Relative Absence of) Welfare State Retrenchment: A Critique of a Normalizing Paradigm,
- J. Magnus Ryner, University of Birmingham
- EU Business Taxation and the Limits to Transnational Neo-Liberalism, Henk Overbeek, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- EU-US relations, Alan Cafruny
19.30 Dinner (in town, tba)
Friday, 1. September 2006
8.30 – 10.45 Panel 3 – Financialisation
Chair: Laura Horn, Discussant: Martin Beckmann
- Financial Market Integration in the EU: the Lamfalussy process and the Financial Services Action Plan (FSAP) as Politics and Policies of Exclusion
- Vanessa Redak, Beat Weber, Ősterreichische Nationalbank
- Neoliberalisation, Financialisation and Pension Reform: Tendencies and Countertendencies in the Drive Towards A Finance-Driven Post-Fordist Growth Regime in Sweden, Claes Belfrage, University of Birmingham
- Pension fund governance and political-economic change in Germany, Christian Möllmann, Universität Bremen
- Linking political economic projects and pension systems in Europe: A comparison of the role of occupational pension funds as investment actors in three European countries, Antonios Roumpakis, University of Bath
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 13.00 Panel 4 – Economic regulation and corporate governance
Chair: Alan Cafruny, Discussant: Magnus Ryner
- Global finance and the European economy: the struggle over banking regulation, Hans-Jürgen Bieling and Johannes Jäger
- Goodwill Hunting, James Perry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Institutional investors and the transformation of the European economy,Martin Beckmann, Marburg
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Panel 5 – CEE
Chair and discussant: Jan Drahokoupil
- “How to make market economies work” The global promotion of competition inPoland, Stuart Shields, University of Manchester
- Varieties of Capitalism Go East: Which Variety for East Central Europe? Arjan Vliegenthart
- Unravelling the coordinated market economies from the margin? Production relocation to Eastern Europe and Varieties of Capitalism, Dorothee Bohle
- Neoliberalism and Financialised Bureaucracies: Economic Governance and the Reform of Social Policy in Hungary, Richard Phillips, University of Manchester, Jeffrey Henderson, University of Manchester, Laszlo Andor, Corvinus University, Budapest
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee Break
16.15. – 18.15 Panel 6 – The Political Economy of EU Enlargement and state transformation
Chair: Hans-Jürgen Bieling, Discussant: Dorothee Bohle
- Central Europe in the EU Embrace: The political Economy of a European Finance-Led Growth Regime
- Or Raviv, University of Sussex
- The Turkish Question in EU, Ilker Atac
- Transnationalization of the state as a local project: Structure, strategy, and social forces in Central and Eastern Europe, Jan Drahokoupil
20.00 Dinner
Saturday, 2. September 2006
8.30 – 10.30 Panel 7 – Governance and Policies
Chair: Claes Belfrage, Discussant: Alan Cafruny
- European neo-liberal trade policy on services and its opponents, Matthieu Lietaert, European University Institute
- The Role of Cities and Regions in the EU: the Rise of Multi-Level and ‘New’ Forms of Governance? Alexander Hamedinger, Vienna University of Technology
- A Plea for a System of Security for Employment or Training, Paul Boccara, Université de Picardie, France
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.45 Panel 8 – Discursive underpinnings of the European Project
Chair: Magnus Ryner, Discussant: Frank Longstreth
- Disciplining through participation, Tereza Stöckelová, Charles University Prague
- ‘New Europeans’ For the ‘New European Economy’: Citizenship Discourses and the Lisbon Agenda
- Sandy Hager, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
- Ideological similarities and differences among left-wing critiques against the European constitution in France and Germany
- Sophie Heine, University of Brussels
- Bringing in the Experts – The Role of Transnational Expert Groups in the Transformation of Corporate Governance Regulation in the European Union, Laura Horn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Roundtable and conclusion
Participants: Bob Jessop, Magnus Ryner, Otto Holman and Marieke de Goede, Chair: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
