Callinicos Imperialism and Global Political Economy

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-5823-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicosintervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates ofthe day. The global policies of the United States in the pastdecade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a newera of imperialism. But is this belief true, and what does'imperialism' mean?
Callinicos explores these questions in this wide-ranging book.In the first part, he critically assesses the classical theories ofimperialism developed in the era of the First World War by Marxistssuch as Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and by the Liberal economistJ.A. Hobson. He then outlines a theory of the relationship betweencapitalism as an economic system and the international statesystem, carving out a distinctive position compared to othercontemporary theorists of empire and imperialism such as AntonioNegri, David Harvey, Giovanni Arrighi, and Ellen Wood.
In the second half of Imperialism and Global Political EconomyCallinicos traces the history of capitalist imperialism from theDutch East India Company to the specific patterns of economic andgeopolitical competition in the contemporary era of Americandecline and Chinese expansion. Imperialism, he concludes, is farfrom dead.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callinicos, Alex

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables vii
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Empire of Theory, Theories of Empire 1
0.1 Marxism and imperialism 3
0.2 The need for theory 6
0.3 Imperialism and global political economy today 14
Part I: Theory 23
1 The Classical Legacy 25
1.1 Continuing Marx's Capital 25
1.2 Luxemburg's fertile diversion 36
1.3 The Lenin-Bukharin synthesis 41
1.4 Organized capitalism and economic crises 53
1.5 Spectres of ultra-imperialism 62
2 Capitalism and the State System 67
2.1 Rethinking the theory of imperialism 67
2.2 Conceptualizing the state system 73
2.3 Interests and ideologies 93
Part II: History 101
3 Capitalism and La Longue Durée 103
3.1 What is capitalism? 103
3.2 Markets and empires 115
3.3 The sinews of capitalist power 123
4 Ages of Imperialism 137
4.1 Periodizing imperialism 137
4.2 Classical imperialism (1870-1945) 144
4.3 Superpower imperialism (1945-1991) 165
5 Imperialism and Global Political Economy Today 188
5.1 The specificity of American imperialism 188
5.2 Global capitalism at the Pillars of Hercules? 197
Notes and References 228
Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Callinicos is Professor of European Studies at King's College, London.