Una germanizzazione imperfetta. Culture economiche e conflitti politici nell’Europa della Grande Recessione (2010-2015). Appunti per una ricerca

Roberto Ventresca, A Flawed Germanization. Economic Cultures and Political Conflicts in Western Europe During the Great Recession (2010- 2015). Notes for a Research The paper overviews the main historiographical issues on which the research project titled A Flawed Germanization. Economic Cultures and Political Conflicts in Western Europe during the Great Recession (2010- 2015) will be built. Starting from a short reconstruction of the main factors behind the outbreak of the 2007-2008 Great Recession in Western Europe, this essay takes into account the main topics the research will deal with, such as the policies promoted by the European Union in order to face the economic and financial crisis in the time between 2010-2015 (i.e. the creation of the European Financial Stability Facility, the setting up of the so-called fiscal compact) and the role played by Germany in the conceptualization of such measures. According to this, the research aims at understanding whether and to what extent the policies promoted by the actors – conceived at both national and supranational levels – of post20017 European governance were deeply intertwined with some of the most significant economic cultures that have been contributing to shape the very features of European integration history over the last decades, such as German ordo-liberalism and Anglo-Saxon neo-liberalism