Institutskolloquium: ‘Workers of the World Unite!’ Globalisation and the Quest for Transnational Solidarity

Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of the <link http: www.nottingham.ac.uk cssgj index.aspx external-link-new-window external link in new>Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice. His general expertise is in the area of International Relations/International Political Economy theories and the analysis of European integration as well as resistance to neo-liberal globalisation with a particular emphasis on the possible role of trade unions.

The general aim of his research is to understand the current struggles over the future European Union (EU) economic-political model with a particular focus on the possibilities for resistance against the emerging neo-liberal, Anglo-American model of capitalism. Andreas Bieler’s current research projects are named ‘Small European States in the Global Economy: Divergence or Convergence?’, ‘Global Capitalism, Class Struggle and World Order: Rethinking Historical Materialism’ (together with Adam David Morton) and ‘Tradeunions, free trade and the problem of transnational solidarity’.

Among his recent publications are ‘Labour, newsocial movements and the resistance to neo-liberal restructuring in Europe’, in New Political Economy (2011) and Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity, London: Routledge (2010, ed. together with I. Lindberg).