Mark Baimbridge is a Senior Lecturer in Economics in the School of Management at the University of Bradford, UK. His main research area is the Political Economy of European Integration. He has published over 40 articles in learned journals, while recent books include: Britain, the euro and beyond (Ashgate, 2008), Britain in a global world (Imprint Academic, 2010), Moored to the Continent? (Imprint Academic, 2012), The political economy of the European Social Model (Routledge, 2012), Crisis in the eurozone (Palgrave, 2015), The segmentation of Europe: convergence or divergence between core and periphery? (Palgrave, 2017).