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Global political economy and the modern state system /
In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Historical materialism book series ;
Volume 63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Organisation of the book; Part One Periods of Theorising Conflict in the Modern State System; Introduction to Part One; Chapter One Critical-Liberal, Marxist and Neo-Weberian Approaches; Chapter Two Power Politics and (Neo- )Realism within the Field of International Relations; Chapter Three Deficits and Desiderata for Future Research; 1. Neorealism and power politics; 2. Critical approaches; 3. Preliminary summary; Part Two A Global Political Economy Framework for Explaining Geopolitics; Chapter Four Foundations for Analysing Capitalism.
- 1. Analyses of the capitalist mode of production1.1 Commodity production: Mutual dependence and competition; 1.2 Commodity, money, capital: Exploitation and accumulation brought on by competition; 2. Structural features of capitalism; 2.1 Critical social forms; 2.2 Four features of capitalism; 2.2.1 Wage labour relations
- the vertical axis of capitalist social conflicts; 2.2.2 Relations of competition
- the horizontal axis of capitalist social conflicts; 2.2.3 Money relations; 2.2.4 The individuation of the political and the plurality of individual states.
- 2.2.4.1 Structural interdependence and 'the interest of states in themselves'2.2.4.2 The plurality of individual states; Chapter Five Capitalism as a Globally Fragmented System across Space and Time; 1. Combined and uneven development, relations of space and time, and the 'international'; 1.1 The need for a global analytical perspective; 1.2 Combined and uneven development and the level of the international and the inter-societal; 1.3 A spatial economy of contemporary capitalism; 2. The dynamic of the global economic process of accumulation.
- 2.1 The inter- and trans-nationalisation of individual capitals, the world market/world economy, and the tendency towards crisis3. The dynamic of the international state system; 3.1 Multi-statehood as a structural characteristic of capitalism in space and time; 3.2 International political institutions: The 'rights of the strong' and 'second-order condensations'; 4. Considerations on various forms of competition; 4.1 The dynamic of precapitalist imperialisms; 4.2 Geopolitical and economic competition; 4.3 Market competition, arms races and forms of geopolitical-military conflicts.
- 4.3.1 The role of the arms economy and the 'military-industrial complex'Chapter Six Historical Phases of the World Order and the Periodisation of Socio-Economic and Geopolitical Power Relations; 1. Structural features, phases and constellations; 1.1 Excursus: On the relationship between structure and agency; 2. Hegemonic and non-hegemonic phases of the world order; 3. Phases of socio-economic development; 3.1 The rhythms of accumulation in the global economy; 3.1.1 Dominant and late-developing economies; 3.2 The inter- and transnationalisation of trade, investments, and production.