Global Political Economy and the Modern State System

Acknowledgements Foreword Bob Jessop Introduction Organisation of the book Part One: Periods of Theorising Conflict in the Modem State System Introduction to Part One I. Critical-Liberal, Marxist and Neo-Weberian Approaches II. Power Politics and (Neo-)Realism within the Field of International Relations III. Deficits and Desiderata for Future Research 1. Neorealism and power politics 2. Critical approaches 3. Preliminary summary Part Two: A GPE Framework for Explaining Geopolitics N. Foundations for Analysing Capitalism 1. Analyses of the capitalist mode of production 1.1 Commodity production: Mutual dependence and competition 1.2 Commodity, money, capital: Exploitation and accumulation brought on by competition 2. Structural features of capitalism 2.1 Critical social forms 2.2 Four features of capitalism 2.2.1. Wage labour relations - the vertical axis of capitalist social conflicts 2.2.2 Relations of competition - the horizontal axis of capitalist social conflicts 2 .2 .2.1 Excursus: Negri's underestimation of competition 2.2.3 Money relations 2 .24 The individuation of the political and the plurality of individual states 2 .241 Structural interdependence and 'the interest of states in themselves' 2.2.42 The plurality of individual states V. Capitalism as a Globally Fragmented System Across Space and Time 1. Combined and uneven development, relations of space and time, and the 'international' 1.1 The need for a global analytical perspective 1.2 Combined and uneven development and the level of the international and the inter-societal 1.3 A spatial economy of contemporary capitalism 2 . The dynamic of the global economic process of accumulation 2.1 The inter- and transnationalisation of individual capitals, the world market/world economy, and the tendency towards crisis 3. The dynamic of the international state system 3.1 Multi-statehood as a structural characteristic of capitalism in space and time 3.2 International political institutions: the 'rights of the strong' and 'second-order condensations' 4- Considerations on various forms of competition 4-1 The dynamic of precapitalist imperialisms 4.2 Geopolitical and economic competition 4.3 Market competition, arms races and forms of geopoliticalmilitary conflicts 4.3.1 The role of the arms economy and the 'military-industrial complex' VI. Historical Phases of the World Order and the Periodisation of Socio-Economic and Geopolitical Power Relations 1. Structural features, phases and constellations 1.1 Excursus: On the relationship between structure and agency 2 . Hegemonic and non-hegemonic phases of world order 3. Phases of socio-economic development 3.1 The rhythms of accumulation in the global economy 3.1.1 Dominant and late-developing economies 3.2 The inter- and transnationalisation of trade, investments, and production 3.2.1 The internationalisation and macro-regionalisation of commodity trade and commodity sales 3.2.2 The inter- and transnationalisation of investments and production 3.2.3 On the inter- and transnationalisation of corporations 3.2.3.1 Interim conclusion 3.24 Transnationalisation of classes? 3.2.5 Using the EU as an example of macro-regional integration of power elites 3.2.5.1 'Internal bourgeoisies'? 3.3 Periodising money and currency relations 3.3.1 The contemporary, non-hegemonic currency system 4 Phases of statehood 41 The politicisation of the economic, the economisation of the political: The ever-changing relations between the political and economic 4.1.1 Contemporary market-liberal statism 42 Phases of hard and soft geopolitics 4.2.1 Excursus: The economic effects of the geopolitical arms race during the Cold War 4.3 The structure of capitalist state competition and the Soviet Union 4.3.1 The pressures of capital accumulation in the Eastern bloc 4.3.2 Soviet geopolitics 4.3.3 The East-West conflict: Consequences for theory building, consequences for US politics Part Three: Market-Liberal Statism: Contemporary Geopolitical Phenomena Introduction to Part Three VII. The Balance between Soft and Hard Geopolitics i . 'Democratic wars' 2. Excursus: International law within fragmented capitalism VIII. Geopolitical and Economic Competitive Relations 1. The aspirations and realities of US empire 2. The EU and the US: A conflict-laden partnership 3. China and the US: A new cold war? 3.1 State-permeated capitalist development 3.2 The integration of Chinese capitalism into a fragile world system 3.2.1 Currency disputes 3.3 China, international political institutions, and East Asian regionalisation Summary References Inde