The StateCapital Nexus in the Global Crisis
In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism. We now know that this expectation was by and large mistaken. There is indeed an ongoing re-calibration of the statecapital relations, but in many instances the state has become more actively and more deeply involved in extending the reach of markets rather than in constraining markets in the interests of an equitable response to the crisis.
This volume offers both theoretical perspectives and empirical studies by a selection of leading Critical International Political Economy scholars on the question how and to what extent we are witnessing a return of the state and a transition towards a new phase of global capitalism. The chapters cover a wide array of topics: from the rise of China and other emerging economies of the Global South, the role of state-owned enterprises such as Sovereign Wealth Funds and National Oil Companies and global environmental politics, to the role of labour in Europe and US grand strategy/foreign policy making in the post-Cold War period.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn is Reader in International Relations at VU University Amsterdam. His research focuses on the link between state and social power within the changing global political economy. He is the author of multiple books amongst which Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration (Routledge, 2002) and (with Nan de Graaff) American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks (Routledge, forthcoming).
Nan de Graaff is Lecturer in International Relations at VU University Amsterdam. Her main research interests are geopolitics and global governance of energy, corporate elite networks and US foreign policy. Recent publications have appeared in e.g. European Journal of International Relations, International Journal of Comparative Sociology and Global Networks.
Henk Overbeek is Professor of International Relations at VU University Amsterdam. His current interests are Chinas rise and the European financial crisis. His most recent (co-edited) books are Neoliberalism in Crisis (Palgrave, 2012) and Globalisation and European Integration (Routledge, 2012). Recent articles appeared in Globalizations and The International Spectator.
Rethinking Globalizations
Edited by Barry K. Gills, Newcastle University, UK
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalization and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalization, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
1. Whither Globalization?
The vortex of knowledge and globalization
James H. Mittelman
2. Globalization and Global History
Edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson
3. Rethinking Civilization
Communication and terror in the global village
Majid Tehranian
4. Globalization and Contestation
The new great counter-movement
Ronaldo Munck
5. Global Activism
Ruth Reitan
6. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia
Edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi
7. Challenging Euro-Americas Politics of Identity
The return of the native
Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes
8. The Global Politics of Globalization
Empire vs Cosmopolis
Edited by Barry K. Gills
9. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis
Edited by Jan Oosthoek and Barry K. Gills
10. Globalization as Evolutionary Process
Modeling global change
Edited by Geroge Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson
11. The Political Economy of Global Security
War, future crises and changes in global governance
Heikki Patomki
12. Cultures of Globalization
Coherence, hybridity, contestation
Edited by Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen and Ella Schmidt
13. Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice
Edited by Barry K. Gills
14. Global Economy Contested
Power and conflict across the international division of labor
Edited by Marcus Taylor
15. Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence
Beyond savage globalization?
Edited by Damian Grenfell and Paul James
16. Recognition and Redistribution
Beyond international development
Edited by Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger
17. The Social Economy
Working alternatives in a globalizing era
Edited by Hasmet M. Uluorta
18. The Global Governance of Food
Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke and Andrew Schrank
19. Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights
The role of multilateral organisations
Desmond McNeill and Asuncin Lera St. Clair
20. Globalization and Popular Sovereignty
Democracys transnational dilemma
Adam Lupel
21. Limits to Globalization
North-South divergence
William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny
22. Globalisation, Knowledge and Labour
Education for solidarity within spaces of resistance
Edited by Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo
23. Dying Empire
U.S. imperialism and global resistance
Francis Shor
24. Alternative Globalizations
An integrative approach to studying dissident knowledge in the global justice movement
S. A. Hamed Hosseini
25. Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg
26. Global South to the Rescue
Emerging humanitarian superpowers and globalizing rescue industries
Edited by Paul Amar
27. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
Edited by Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin
28. Power and Transnational Activism
Edited by Thomas Olesen
29. Globalization and Crisis
Edited by Barry K. Gills
30. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development
Visions, remembrances and explorations
Edited by Patrick Manning and Barry K. Gills
31. Global Social Justice
Edited by Heather Widdows and Nicola J. Smith
32. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance
A study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in global cities.
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
33. Situating Global Resistance
Between Discipline and Dissent
Edited by Lara Montesinos Coleman and Karen Tucker
34. A History of World Order and Resistance
The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects
Andr C. Drainville
35. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order
Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Ral Delgado Wise
36. Edges of Global Justice
The World Social Forum and Its Others
Janet Conway
37. Land Grabbing and Global Governance
Edited by Matias E. Margulis, Nora McKeon and Saturnino Borras Jr.
38. Dialectics in World Politics
Edited by Shannon Brincat
39. Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics
Edited by James Goodman and Jonathan Paul Marshall
