Bieler / Morton Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-66608-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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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. Conceiving the internal relationship of global capitalism, global war, global crisis as a struggle-driven process is a major contribution of the book providing a novel intervention on debates within theories of 'the international'. Through a set of conceptual reflections, on agency and 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 (global capitalism), the role of the state and geopolitics (global war), and conditions of exploitation and resistance (global crisis). The conceptual reflections and thematic considerations raised earlier in the book are then extended in a series of empirical interventions. These include a focus on the 'rising powers' of the BRICS (global capitalism), conditions of the 'new imperialism' (global war), and the financial crisis since the 2007–8 Great Recession (global crisis). As a result of honing in on the internal relations of global capitalism, global war, global crisis the final major contribution of the book is to deliver a radically open-ended dialectical consideration of ruptures of resistance within the global political economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bieler, Andreas

Morton, Adam David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Necessarily historical materialist moment; 2. The centrality of class struggle; 3. The material structure of ideology; 4. Capitalist expansion, uneven and combined development and passive revolution; 5. The geopolitics of global capitalism; 6. Exploitation and resistance; 7. Global capitalism and rising powers; 8. Global war and the new imperialism; 9. Global crisis and trouble in the eurozone; 10. Ruptures in and beyond global capitalism, global war, global crisis.

Über Autor(innen)

Bieler, Andreas
Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union (2000) and The Struggle for a Social Europe (2006) as well as co-editor of Free Trade and Transnational Labour (2015) and Chinese Labour in the Global Economy (2017). He maintains a blog on trade unions and global restructuring.

Morton, Adam David
Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci (2007) and Revolution and State in Modern Mexico (2011), which was awarded the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG). He is the founding editor of the blog Progress in Political Economy (PPE), a central forum for political economy debates and was awarded the 2016 International Studies Association (ISA) Online Media Caucus Award for the Best Blog (Group).