Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

✍ Scribed by Andreas Bieler; Adam David Morton

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in such a way that the ties between the relations of production, state-civil society, and conditions of class struggle can be realised. By conceiving the internal relationship of global capitalism, global war, global crisis as a struggle-driven process, the book provides a novel intervention on debates within theories of 'the international'. Through a set of conceptual reflections, on agency, structure and the role of discourses embedded in the economy, class struggle is established as our point of departure. This involves analysing historical and contemporary themes on the expansion of capitalism through uneven and combined development, the role of the state and geopolitics, and conditions of exploitation and resistance. These conceptual reflections and thematic considerations are then extended in a series of empirical interventions, including a focus on the 'rising powers' of the BRICS, conditions of the 'new imperialism', and the ongoing financial crisis. The book delivers a radically open-ended dialectical consideration of ruptures of resistance within the global political economy.

✦ Table of Contents

A Necessarily Historical Materialist Moment
3
The Centrality of Class Struggle
27
The Material Structure of Ideology
51
Capitalist Expansion Uneven and Combined
79
The Geopolitics of Global Capitalism
107
Exploitation and Resistance
131
Global Capitalism and Rising Powers
159
Global War and the New Imperialism
189
Global Crisis and Trouble in the Eurozone
217
Ruptures in and beyond Global Capitalism Global War
249
Bibliography
276
Index
316
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✦ Subjects

Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Sociology