Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

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Andreas Bieler (University of Nottingham) Adam David Morton (University of Sydney)

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

Andreas Bieler (University of Nottingham), Adam David Morton (University of Sydney)

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Cambridge University Press
17 May 2018

Globalization; Politics & government; International relations; Diplomacy; International institutions; Political economy

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.

By: Andreas Bieler (University of Nottingham), Adam David Morton (University of Sydney)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781108452632
ISBN 10: 1108452639
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 17 May 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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: Austrian and Swedish Social Forces in the Struggle over Membership (2000) and The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring (2006) as well as co-editor (with Bruno Ciccaglione, Ingemar Lindberg and John Hilary) of Free Trade and Transnational Labour (2015) and (with Chun-Yi Lee) of Chinese Labour in the Global Economy (2017). His personal website is http://andreasbieler.net and he maintains a blog on trade unions and global restructuring at http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk. Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His research interests are shaped through interdisciplinary concerns across political economy, state theory, development, geographical studies, and historical sociology. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007) and Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), which was awarded the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG). He edits the blog Progress in Political Economy (PPE) that was awarded the 2016 International Studies Association (ISA) Online Media Caucus Award for the Best Blog (Group) and the 2017 International Studies Association (ISA) Online Media Caucus Award for Special Achievement in International Studies Online Media: http://ppesydney.net/.

Reviews for Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton offer an original, tightly-argued and extraordinarily rich analytical panorama of the emergence and unevenness of global capitalism, the geopolitical conflicts entailed, and its crisis conditions provoking sources of resistance. The ground-breaking approach developed in this book will shape debates in and beyond political economy for years to come. Alfredo Saad-Filho, SOAS University of London Marx's dialectics prioritise the relational and evolving qualities of literally everything over the logically separate and static parts into which most people divide our world. The authors of this book give dialectics the attention it deserves in understanding global capitalism, taking you on a mind-stretching voyage you do not want to miss. Highly recommended. Bertell Ollman, New York University As tensions and confrontations rise, it is incumbent upon us to understand the intrinsic relations of global capitalism, global war, and global crisis. Feminist political economists share with historical materialists the concern for the increasing reach of capitalist exploitation within households, states, at the border and in zones of conflict and post-conflict. A holistic, explanatory account has never been more important and Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton have produced that account for our time. All serious analysts of world order looking for answers about 'how we got here' and 'where we are going' should take heed. Jacqui True, Monash University