The Geopolitics of Capitalism

The Geopolitics of Capitalism
Author: Gonzalo Pozo
Publisher: Pluto Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780745329222

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The Geopolitics of Capitalism links contemporary inter-state rivalry and cooperation to the spatial processes of global capitalism, recasting the notion of geopolitics as a territorial manifestation of accumulation. Concentrating on the post-Cold War period, Gonzalo Pozo examines the way in which the capitalist mode of production creates its own spaces of state conflict. The book critically reviews a wide range of geopolitical traditions and revisits key notions of borders and territory, offering an analysis of the contemporary forms of territorial configuration. The book's theoretical and empirical range makes it an important contribution to the Marxist literature on imperialism and an excellent critical introduction for students of international politics and political geography.

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics
Author: Daniel Woodley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317755723

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Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial statecraft, and remains reluctant to recognize the realities global economic convergence, the age of imperial state hegemony is giving way to a new international order characterized by capitalist sovereignty and competition between regional and transnational concentrations of economic power. This title seeks to interrogate the structure of world order by examining leading approaches to globalization and political economy in international relations and international political economy. Breaking with the classical school, Woodley argues that geopolitics should be understood as a transnational strategic practice employed by powerful state actors, which mirrors predatory corporate rivalry for control over global resources and markets, reproducing the structural conditions for corporate power through the transnational state form of capital. In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis. It is valuable resource for students and scholars seeking to develop a deeper understanding of the historical determinants of the changing dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and their implications for world order.

How the West Came to Rule

How the West Came to Rule
Author: Alexander Anievas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2015
Genre: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN: 9781783713240

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Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism's origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.

Spaces of Capital

Spaces of Capital
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2019-07-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1474468950

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David Harvey is unquestionably the most influential, as well as the most cited, geographer of his generation. His reputation extends well beyond geography to sociology, planning, architecture, anthropology, literary studies and political science. This book brings together for the first time seminal articles published over three decades on the tensions between geographical knowledges and political power and on the capitalist production of space. Classic essays reprinted here include 'On the history and present condition of geography', 'The geography of capitalist accumulation' and 'The spatial fix: Hegel, von Thunen, and Marx'. Two new chapters represent the author's most recent thinking on cartographic identities and social movements. David Harvey's persistent challenge to the claims of ethical neutrality on behalf of science and geography runs like a thread throughout the book. He seeks to explain the geopolitics of capitalism and to ground spatial theory in social justice. In the process he engages with overlooked or misrepresented figures in the history of geography, placing them in the context of intellectual history. The presence here of Kant, Von Thunen, Humboldt, Lattimore, Leopold alongside Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Darwin, Malthus, Foucault and many others shows the deep roots and significance of geographical thought. At the same time David Harvey's telling observations of current social, environmental, and political trends show just how vital that thought is to the understanding of the world as it is and as it might be.

Geopolitical Economy

Geopolitical Economy
Author: Radhika Desai
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013
Genre: Geopolitics
ISBN: 9781552665626

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"Geopolitical Economy traces the historical evolution of today's multi- polar world, as it emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis. Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of U.S. hegemony, globalization and empire which dominate academic international political economy and international relations, revealing their ideological origins in successive failed US attempts at dominance.Desai recovers and revitalizes notions of national self-determination and popular dissent, drawing on revolutionary intellectual traditions that understand the world order as formed by 'the relations of producing nations'. At a time of global upheavals and profound shifts in the distribution of power, Geopolitical Economy forges a vivid and compelling account of the historical processes that are shaping the contemporary international order."

The Anti-capitalist Chronicles

The Anti-capitalist Chronicles
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Red Letter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Anti-globalization movement
ISBN: 9780745342085

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A new book from one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences

Geopolitics of capitalism

Geopolitics of capitalism
Author: David Harvey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

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Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy
Author: Sami Moisio
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317587766

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We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based "economization" can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.

Geopolitics and Geoculture

Geopolitics and Geoculture
Author: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1991-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521406048

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Written between 1982 and 1989, this collection contains the author's perspective on the events of this period. The book also charts the development of a challenge to the dominant "geoculture": the cultural framework within which the world-system operates.

Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?

Can Democracy Survive in the 21st Century?
Author: Ronald M. Glassman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 303076821X

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This book analyzes the many threats to democracy that exist in the 21st century and tries to understand how democracy can survive economic, social and political crises. It focuses on issues of oligarchy, tyranny, totalitarianism, and ochlocracy. It discusses how these forms of governance manifested themselves in ancient and medieval worlds, and how socio-economic transitions in the 21st century have created conditions that increasingly pose similar threats to modern democracy. The author discusses broad transitions in the contemporary world: economic transition to advanced, high technology capitalism; cultural transition from traditional religious and family values to norms focusing on racial equality, gender and transgender equality and liberation, and multiculturalism; also, transition from the traditional religious worldview to rational-scientific worldview, and from religious morality to secular humanist ethics. These taken together undergird the political transition from traditional authority, involving monarchy and aristocracy, to rational-legal authority, involving constitutional law and democratic participation. The book shows, through extensive country discussions, that whenever these transitions become difficult, undemocratic forms of governance may emerge and override democracy. Authored by an expert in the field, this book touches upon an especially topical theme in the contemporary world and is of interest to a wide readership across the social sciences, from researchers and students to discerning laypersons.