Global capitalism, global war, global crisis / Andreas Bieler, Adam David Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bieler, Andreas, 1967- author.

Morton, Adam David, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy.

Economic development.

Geopolitics.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Physical Description:

xv, 321 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. A necessarily historical materialist moment

Part I. Conceptual reflections. The centrality of class struggle

The material structure of ideology

Part II. Thematic considerations. Capitalist expansion, uneven and combined development and passive revolution

The geopolitics of global capitalism

Exploitation and resistance

Part III. Empirical interventions. Global capitalism and rising powers

Global war and the new imperialism

Global crisis and trouble in the Eurozone

Conclusion. Ruptures in and beyond global capitalism, global war, global crisis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-315) and index.

ISBN:

9781108452632

1108452639

9781108479103

1108479103

OCLC:

1018072467