Contents: Introduction; Part 1 Theoretical Concerns: European political economy: an international political economy perspective on Europe; Mainstream approaches to European political economy; Critical approaches to European political economy. Part 2 Application of EPE Theories to Selected EU Issues: The making of EMU: political economy explanations of European monetary integration; Between growth and stability: assessing the monetary policy performance of the ECB in its first years from establishment; The stability and growth pact and the political economy of fiscal coordination in the Eurozone; The future of EMU: the crisis of the Eurozone within the context of the global financial crisis; The progress of the social dimension in Europe: spillovers or organised interests?; The political economy of the European employment strategy: an IPE perspective; The theory and practice of EU migration policy: an IPE perspective; Conclusion: the European political economy in the globalisation era; Index.