Overview

Interest in globalisation has been growing over the last decade, and it has become clear recently that mass popular movements are increasingly concerned with the politics of globalisation. In these circumstances, the revival of interest in historical materialism within international studies takes on a broader significance. In Historical Materialism and Globalisation, pioneers of this tradition are brought together with innovative young scholars whose work will shape the next generation of critical international studies scholarship. Now that soviet style socialism has collapsed upon itself and liberal capitalism offers itself as the natural, necessary and absolute condition of human social life on a world-wide scale, this book insists that the potentially emancipatory resources of a renewed, and perhaps reconstructed, historical materialism are more relevant in today's world than ever before. Rather than viewing global capitalism as an ineluctable natural force, these essays seek to show how a dialectic of power and resistance is at work in the contemporary global political economy, producing and contesting new realities, and creating conditions in which new forms of collective self determination become thinkable and materially possible. It will be vital, topical reading for anyone interested in international relations, international political economy, sociology and political theory.

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Author:   Mark Rupert ,  Hazel Smith
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415263719

ISBN 10:   0415263719
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   22 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

introduction Editors’ introduction, Mark Rupert, Hazel Smith; Part I Globalization; Chapter 1 Global capital, national states, Ellen Meiksins Wood; Chapter 2 How many capitalisms?, Bob Sutcliffe; Chapter 3 The search for relevance, Michael Cox; Chapter 4 The pertinence of imperialism, Fred Halliday; Chapter 5 A flexible Marxism for flexible times, Mark Laffey, Kathryn Dean; Part II Historical materialism as a theory of globalization; Chapter 6 Class struggle, states and global circuits of capital, Peter Burnham; Chapter 7 Historical materialism and the emancipation of labour, Kees van der Pijl; Chapter 8 Making sense of the international system, Hannes Lacher; Chapter 9 The dialectic of globalisation, Benno Teschke, Christian Heine; Part III Historical materialism and the politics of globalization; Chapter 10 The class politics of globalisation, Alejandro Colás; Chapter 11 Capitalist globalization and the transnationalization of the state, William I. Robinson; Chapter 12 Historical materialism, globalization, and law, A. Claire Cutler; Chapter 13 The politics of ‘regulated liberalism’, Hazel Smith; Chapter 14 Historical materialism, ideology, and the politics of globalizing capitalism, M. Scott Solomon, Mark Rupert;

Reviews

'This collection ably reflects the divergent currents within historical materialism and is unified by the author's shared commitment to discerning sites of struggle and to building a globalised politics based on international solidarity and resistance.' - Sam Ashman, Millenium Journal of International Studies

Author Information

Mark Rupert is Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Hazel Smith is reader in International Relations at the University of Warwick. She has been seconded to the UN World food Programme in DPRK as Programme Adviser since August 2000.

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