Rising Powers and Economic Crisis in the Euro Area

Ferdi De Ville is Assistant Professor in European Politics at the Department of Political Science, Ghent University. He is the author of TTIP: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.Mattias Vermeiren is Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the Department of Political Science, Ghent University. He is the author of Power and Imbalances in the Global Monetary System: A Comparative Capitalism Perspective, and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

• Introduction-. Chapter 1: External Imbalances and Varieties of Capitalism in the Euro Area-. Chapter 2: The Euro Area and the Rise of the BICs: An Asymmetric Shock-. Chapter 3: CMEs: Profiting from the BICs' Industrialization-. Chapter 4: MMEs: Outcompeted by Low-Cost Economies-. Conclusions