Imperialism and Global Political Economy

By Alex Callinicos

In Imperialism and international Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in a single of the most political and highbrow debates of the day. the worldwide rules of the United States some time past decade have inspired the frequent trust that we are living in a brand new period of imperialism. yet is that this trust actual, and what does 'imperialism' suggest?

Callinicos explores those questions during this wide-ranging publication. within the first half, he severely assesses the classical theories of imperialism built within the period of the 1st international battle through Marxists corresponding to Lenin, Luxemburg, and Bukharin and via the Liberal economist J.A. Hobson. He then outlines a concept of the connection among capitalism as an economic climate and the overseas nation process, carving out a particular place in comparison to different modern theorists of empire and imperialism corresponding to Antonio Negri, David Harvey, Giovanni Arrighi, and Ellen wooden.

within the moment half Imperialism and international Political Economy Callinicos lines the background of capitalist imperialism from the Dutch East India corporation to the explicit styles of monetary and geopolitical pageant within the modern period of yank decline and chinese language growth. Imperialism, he concludes, is much from lifeless.

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