Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Essays on Continuity and Change

ISBN-13: 9780415263702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str.

Mark Rupert; Hazel Smith

Opis

Interest in globalization has been growing since 1990, and it has become clear that mass popular movements are increasingly concerned with the politics of globalization. In these circumstances, the revival of interest in historical materialism within international studies takes on a broader significance.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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.