Transnational Classes and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415192002 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Kees Van Der Pijl

Opis

This text presents an analysis of class formation in the global political economy. It deals with the growth of an integrated, transnational capitalist class, from freemasonry in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution to contemporary planning groups with a class orientation such as the World Economic Forum. The study provides the student and academic reader with a systematic overview of the theory and concepts developed in the Research Centre for International Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam. Among its areas of focus are: the processes of commodification and socialization; class formation under the discipline of capital and its transnational integration in historical perspective; and international relations between the English-speaking heartland of capital and successive contender states.

Recenzje

'...Van der Pijl has written an interesting and scholarly book, which will undoubtedly be of interest to political scientists and to students of political science, international relations and international political economy.' - Development and Change, Vol 30 (4) October 1999

'..this is an excellent analysis of historical change and the mediating role of class formation in the structuring of capital aqccumulation at the national, international, and transnational level and is essential reading for those interested in understanding the changing nature of capitalism towards the end of the twentieth century.' Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol 75, No.2, April 1999

Spis treści

Introduction A. Commodification, Socialisation and Capital 1. Commodification and Community 2. Concepts of Socialisation 3. The Discipline of Capital B. Capital Accumulation and Class Formation 1. The Historical Topography of Class Society 2. Capital as Discipline and Class Struggles 3. Fractions of Capital and Concepts of Control C. The Lockean Heartland in the International Political Economy 1. The Lockean State/Society Conplex 2. Contender States and the Hobbesian Counterpoint 3. Structural Aspects of World Politics D. Transnational Class Formation and Historical Hegemonies 1. Freemasonry as Imagined Community 2. Class Planning in the Era of High Finance 3. Hegemonic Integration of the State Classes E. Cadres and the Classless Society 1. The Class of Socialisation 2. Historical Instances of Cadre Class Formation 3. Deregulation and the Dilemmas of Global Governance

O autorze

Van der Pijl, Kees