This book analyzes how financial liberalization affected the development of the financial crisis in Europe, with particular attention to the ways in which power asymmetries within Western Europe facilitated financial liberalization and distributed the costs and gains from it. The author combines...

Integration through law -- Regional trade agreements as legal regimes -- The EU as a global actor -- The normative legal character of sustainable development -- Transforming the ACP-EU 'special' relationship -- African regionalisms as flexible legal regimes -- Regionalism in Southern Africa --...