Since the late 1970s, the spread of Neo-liberalism and the failure of socialist economies and systems in Eastern Europe have resulted in a practically unchallenged hegemony of international capital across the globe. Neo-liberalism is now the dominant ideology, legitimizing the privatisation of state-controlled economies and the substitution of the

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Henk Overbeek is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He has specialized in the international dimensions of British politics.

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List of figures, List of tables, Preface Henk Overbeek, Notes on contributors, 1 RESTRUCTURING CAPITAL AND RESTRUCTURING HEGEMONY: NEO-LIBERALISM AND THE UNMAKING OF THE POST-WAR ORDER, 2 THE SOVEREIGNTY OF CAPITAL IMPAIRED: SOCIAL FORCES AND CODES OF CONDUCT FOR MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, 3 CHILE: THE LABORATORY EXPERIMENT OF INTERNATIONAL NEO-LIBERALISM, 4 NEO-LIBERALISM AND THE DISMANTLING OF CORPORATISM IN AUSTRALIA, 5 ATLANTICISM AND EUROPEANISM IN BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY, 6 TRANSNATIONALISM IN SPAIN: THE PARADOXES OF SOCIALIST RULE IN THE 1980s, 7 NEO-LIBERALISM IN GERMANY? THE 'WENDE' IN PERSPECTIVE, 8 THE NEO-LIBERAL EXPERIMENT AND THE DECLINE OF THE BELGIAN BOURGEOISIE, 9 CANADA IN THE CRISIS: TRANSFORMATIONS IN CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL STRATEGY, 10 NEO-LIBERALISM AND THE SHIFT TOWARDS A US-CENTRED TRANSNATIONAL HEGEMONY, Index