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The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an epoch in regional and world history and providing a vantage point against which to assess contemporary developments.
The East Asian expansion since the 1960s stands out as a global power shift with few historical precedents. The Resurgence of East Asia examines the rise of the region as one of the world's economic power centres from three temporal perspectives: 500 years, 150 years and 50 years, each denoting an epoch in regional and world history and providing a vantage point against which to assess contemporary developments.
This book brings an empirical social science perspective to a
public issue on which observers, economists, and business gurus
have freely unleashed their abstract models and jumbo schemes.
Written by internationally acclaimed authors, the chapters engage
empirically tractable issues that are basic to any overall
understanding of the social origins, structures, and consequences
of the current wave of globalization. The book brings together in
one volume diverse issues related to globalization that are
generally dealt with in separate publications, such as migration,
social inequality, flows of capital, Americanization and cultural
identities, citizenship and collective action, and global
governance. The diversity of topics and up to date discussion makes
this book ideal as a text or supplementary reading for courses. As
an argument for greater complexity, contingency and contradiction
in contemporary debates on globalization, it is essential reading
for any scholar or lay reader concerned about contemporary change.
The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form,
by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining
argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with
a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing
formats. Lives on the Left brings together sixteen such interviews
from New Left Review in a group portrait of intellectual engagement
in the twentieth century and since. Four generations of
intellectuals discuss their political histories and present
perspectives, and the specialized work for which they are, often,
best known. Their recollections span the century from the Great War
and the October Revolution to the present, ranging across Europe,
the Americas, Africa and Asia. Psychoanalysis, philosophy, the
gendering of private and public life, capital and class formation,
the novel, geography, and language are among the topics of
theoretical discussion. At the heart of the collection, in all its
diversity of testimony and judgement, is critical experience of
communism and the tradition of Marx, relayed now for a new
generation of readers. Lives on the Left includes interviews with
Georg Lukacs, Hedda Korsch, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dorothy Thompson,
Jir?i Pelikan, Ernest Mandel, Luciana Castellina, Lucio Colletti,
K. Damodaran, Noam Chomsky, David Harvey, Adolfo Gilly, Joao Pedro
Stedile, Asada Akira, Wang Hui and Giovanni Arrighi. New Left
Review was founded in 1960 in London, which has remained its base
ever since. In fifty years of publication, it has won an
international reputation as an independent journal of socialist
politics and ideas, attracting readers and contributors from every
part of the world. A Spanish-language edition is published
bi-monthly from Madrid.
Few terms in the vocabulary of politics are so confused as
"imperialism." Does it refer essentially to colonial rule? Or is it
primarily an economic phenomenon, connected to the export of
capital? What is its relation to nationalism? Which societies, in
the past or present, can be properly described as imperialist?
Giovanni Arrighi resolves these ambiguities by the construction of
a formal model that integrates all of them into a single structure.
He shows how a coherent paradigm of imperialism can be derived from
Hobson's classic study of imperialism at the turn of the century,
and illustrates it with a series of geometrical figures. The
genesis of English imperialism is traced, from the seventeenth to
twentieth centuries. Then the pattern of German and American
imperialism are compared and contrasted. Arrighi looks at the
consequences of the rise of multinational corporations for the
traditional versions of the concept of imperialism and concludes
that they transform its meaning. In a new afterword, Arrighi
responds to his critics and sketches a reconceptualized theory of
"imperialism" as a struggle for world hegemony.
In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam
Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West
and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work,
Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to
reassess radically the conventional reading of The Wealth of
Nations. He examines how recent US attempts to create the first
truly global empire were conceived to counter China's spectacular
economic success Now America's disastrous failure in Iraq has made
the People's Republic of China the true winner in the US War on
Terror.
China may soon become again the kind of noncapitalist market
economy that Smith described, an event that will reconfigure world
trade and the global balance of power.
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Debating Empire (Paperback)
Gopal Balakrishnan; Contributions by Alex Callinicos, Charles Tilly, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Giovanni Arrighi, …
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Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has been hailed as a
latter day Communist Manifesto. Its ability to develop a
theoretical framework relevant to the current period of global
neo-liberalism and international capitalism captured the
imagination of the growing anti-capitalist movement and has been
claimed as a turning point for the left. As much as it has seduced
and delighted some, however, it has enraged and frustrated others.
In this collection, a series of some of the most acute
international theorists and commentators of our times subject the
book to trenchant and probing analysis from political, economic and
philosophical perspectives, and Hardt and Negri respond to their
questions and criticisms.
NATO's war on Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 was unleashed in the
name of democracy and human rights. This view was challenged by the
world's three largest countries, India, China and Russia, who saw
the bombing of Serbia and Kosovo as a naked attempt to assert US
dominance in an unstable world. In the West, media networks were
joined by substantial sectors of left/liberal opinion in supporting
the war. Nonetheless, a wide variety of figures emerged to
challenge the prevailing consensus. Their work, gathered here for
the first time, forms a collection of key statements and anti-war
writings from some of democracy's most eloquent dissidents-Noam
Chomsky, Harold Pinter, Edward Said and many others-who provide
carefully researched examinations of the real motives for the US
action, dissections and critiques of the ideology of 'humanitarian
warfare', and chartings of the unnecessary tragedy of a region laid
to waste in the pursuance of Great Power politics. This reader
presents some of the most important texts on NATO's Balkan crusade
and forms a major intervention in the debate on global
geo-political strategy after the Cold War.
The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The
distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the
meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the
rational grounds for socialist endeavour and commitment in a world
which remains dangerous and divided. The contributors include the
Italian political philosopher Norberto Bobbio, the British
historian Eric Hobsbawm, the French economist Andre Gorz, and the
German social theorist Jurgen Habermas. Eduardo Galeano explains
how the now world looks from the South, Diane Elson explores how
the market might be socialized, Ralph Miliband writes on the
harshness of Leninism, Hans Magnus Enzenberger argues that the
capitalist 'bad fairy' granted the Left's wishes in disconcerting
ways. Lynne Segal looking at the condition of women sees no reason
to abandon her libertarian, feminist and socialist convictions,
while Maxine Molyneux considers the implications for women of the
fall of Communism. Giovanni Arrighi asks whether Marxism understood
the 'American Century', Fredric Jameson pursues a conversation on
the new world order, Ivan Szelenyi explains who will be the new
rulers of Eastern Europe, and Robin Blackburn reflects on the
history of socialist programmes, with the benefit of hindsight.
Fred Halliday and Edward Thompson disagree about how Communism
ended but share worries about what is in store for the
post-Communist countries. Alexander Cockburn regrets the death of
the Soviet Union. And Goeran Therborn eloquent proves that it is
still possible to imagine a future beyond capitalism... and beyond
socialism?
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