Part of the Politics and International Relations Research Public Lecture Series

Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019

Time: 1.30pm – 3pm

Location: GM 342, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester, M15 6LL

Tickets: Free – Available on Eventbrite here

Over the last decade the EU has experienced successive waves of crises. This talk presents a unique blend of theoretical and empirical analysis to assess the extent to which the EU’s crises are interdependent and have an underlying common cause: processes of commodification and the increasing use of the market mechanism as a system of governance within the EU. By critically applying Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation to the process of European integration, the research radically redefines the debate on
the EU by analysing the limits, and consequences, of a market-led model of integration.

Paul Copeland is Senior Lecturer of Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on the political economy of European integration in the context of the welfare state, as well as the UK’s relationship with the EU.

The Politics and IR Public Lecture Series is sponsored by the History, Politics and Philosophy department and organized by Kathryn Starnes, Lecturer in International Relations at Manchester Metropolitan University.