Mark Rupert - Historical Materialism and Globalisation

Interest in globalization has been growing over the last decade, and it has become clear recently 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. In Historical Materialism and Globalization, 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 todays 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.

Mark Rupert is Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He is the author of Producing Hegemony and Ideologies of Globalization.Hazel Smith is a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC, where she is currently on research leave from her post as Reader in International Relations at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book is Democracy and International Relations.

Edited by Richard Higgott and published in association with the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick

What is globalisation and does it matter? How can we measure it? What are its policy implications? The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick is an international site for the study of key questions such as these in the theory and practice of globalisation and regionalisation. Its agenda is avowedly interdisciplinary. The work of the Centre will be showcased in this new series.

This series comprises two strands: Warwick Studies in Globalisation addresses the needs of students and teachers, and the titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles include:

Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific

Contested Territories

Edited by Kris Olds, Peter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong and Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Regulating the Global Information Society

Edited by Christopher Marsden

Banking on Knowledge

The Genesis of the Global Development Network

Edited by Diane Stone

Historical Materialism and Globalization

Edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith

Civil Society and Global Finance

Edited by Jan Aart Scholte with Albrecht Schnabel

Towards a Global Polity

Edited by Morten Ougaard and Richard Higgott

New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy

Theories and Cases

Edited by Shaun Breslin, Christopher W. Hughes, Nicola Phillips and Ben Rosamond

Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation is a forum for innovative new research intended for a high-level specialist readership, and the titles will be available in hardback only Titles include:

1 Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System

Edited by Richard Higgott, Geoffrey Underhill and Andreas Bieler

2 Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union

Austrian and Swedish Social Forces in the Struggle over Membership

Andreas Bieler

3 Rethinking Empowerment

Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

Edited by Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai and Kathleen Staudt

4 Globalising Intellectual Property Rights

The TRIPs Agreement

Duncan Matthews

Edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith

for Ellen Meiksins Wood with appreciation for her scholarship, integrity and politics

First published 2002 by Routledge

Published 2016 by Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Historical materialism and globalization/edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith.

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. International economic relations. 2. Globalizationeconomic aspects. 3. Materialism. I. Rupert, Mark. II. Smith, Hazel, 1954.

HF1359 .H584 2002

337dc21 2002069793

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-26370-2 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-26371-9 (pbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315541402

• 1. • ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD
  2. • BOB SUTCLIFFE
  3. • MICHAEL COX
  4. • FRED HALLIDAY
  5. • MARK LAFFEY AND KATHRYN DEAN
• 1. • PETER BURNHAM
  2. • KEES VAN DER PIJL
  3. • HANNES LACHER
  4. • BENNO TESCHKE AND CHRISTIAN HEINE
• 1. • ALEJANDRO COLAS
  2. • WILLIAM I. ROBINSON
  3. • A. CLAIRE CUTLER
  4. • HAZEL SMITH
  5. • M. SCOTT SOLOMON AND MARK RUPERT

Peter Burnham is Reader in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

Alejandro Cols is Lecturer in the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex.

Michael Cox is Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

A. Claire Cutler is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria.

Kathryn Dean is Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, SOAS.

Fred Halliday is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christian Heine is completing a doctorate at the London School of Economics in the International Relations Department.