____________________________________________________ Globalisation, European Integration and the Discursive Construction of Economic Imperatives ________________________ Colin Hay Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK c.s.hay@bham.ac.uk Ben Rosamond Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK b.j.rosamond@warwick.ac.uk Colin Hay is Reader in Political Analysis in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of volumes, including Political Analysis (Palgrave, forthcoming); The Political Economy of New Labour (Manchester UP, 1999), Re-Stating Social and Political Change (Open UP, 1996), and Demystifying Globalisation (Macmillan/Palgrave, 2000, with David Marsh). Ben Rosamond is Senior Research Fellow in International Politics in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Theories of European Integration (Macmillan/Palgrave, 2000) and is currently preparing a book on Globalisation and the EU.