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Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945–1980
03 Sep 2019-
About: The article was published on 2019-09-03 and is currently open access. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: East Asia & Ruling class.
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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the Schumpeterian Competition State and the Workfare State are discussed, with a focus on the role of social reproduction and the workfare state in the two types of states.
Abstract: List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.
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TL;DR: Cox as mentioned in this paper discusses various gramscian concepts and what their implications are for the study of different historical forms of hegemony and counter-hegemony, and suggests that these could have a revolutionary effect on international structures and organizations, as well as rupture with the hegemony performed by the transnational economic order.
Abstract: Este articulo es, a dia de hoy, una de las piezas clasicas y fundamentales para la posibilidad de estudiar las relaciones globales de poder a partir de las herramientas conceptuales desarrolladas por Gramsci a lo largo de su obra. Cox, contribuye de esta forma a las corrientes criticas de las Relaciones Internacionales al discutir varios conceptos gramscianos y cuales serian las implicaciones para estudiar las relaciones internacionales en distintos periodos de hegemonia y contrahegemonia. De igual forma, el autor planteo la cuestion –en su momento novedosa– de la relevancia de tomar en cuenta los procesos internos de construccion de bloques historicos contrahegemonicos como aquellos que podrian tener un efecto revolucionario en las estructuras y organizaciones internacionales, asi como ruptura con la hegemonia plasmada como una clase perteneciente a un orden economico universal transnacional. This article is a classic and fundamental for approaching global power relations with the conceptual tools developed by Gramsci. Cox contributes to critical thought in International Relations by discussing various gramscian concepts and what their implications are for the study of different historical forms of hegemony and counter-hegemony. Also, the author draws our attention –novel at the time of its publicaction– to the relevance of taking into account the construction of domestic counter-hegemonic historic blocs. He suggests that these could have a revolutionary effect on international structures and organizations, as well as rupture with the hegemony performed by the transnational economic order.
1,081 citations
01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the strategic coupling of the global production networks of transnational corporations and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture.
Abstract: Recent literature concerning regional development has placed significant emphasis on local institutional structures and their capacity to ‘hold down’ the global. Conversely, work on inter-firm networks – such as the global commodity chain approach – has highlighted the significance of the organizational structures of global firms’ production systems and their relation to industrial upgrading. In this paper, drawing upon a global production networks perspective, we conceptualize the connections between ‘globalizing’ processes, as embodied in the production networks of transnational corporations, and regional development in specific territorial formations. We delimit the ‘strategic coupling’ of the global production networks of firms and regional economies which ultimately drives regional development through the processes of value creation, enhancement and capture. In doing so, we stress the multi-scalarity of the forces and processes underlying regional development, and thus do not privilege one particular geographical scale. By way of illustration, we introduce an example drawn from recent research into global production networks in East Asia and Europe. The example profiles the investments of car manufacturer BMW in Eastern Bavaria, Germany and Rayong, Thailand, and considers their implications for regional development.
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TL;DR: New State Spaces as discussed by the authors is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject of political geographies of the modern state, which has been made in the past few years.
Abstract: Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State Spaces' is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject
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14 Mar 2000
TL;DR: In this book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times) The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended results of American actions abroad. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster.In a new edition that addresses recent international events from September 11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: Burawoy as mentioned in this paper investigated the process of traba-loops in the context of marxism and found that the process can be traced back to the work of Braverman and Karl Marx.
Abstract: M ichael Burawoy, professor da U n iversidade da Ca l iforn ia , Berkeley, partindo de reflexoes das teorias marxistas do processo de traba lho , especia lmente da obra de Harry Braverman : "Traba lho e capita l monopol ista" , chega a conclusoes das impl icacoes para a pol ftica atraves de sua ' 'teoria de producao . " Os estudos deste teo rico sao rea l izados a partir de experiencias em cada uma das a reas por e le ana l isadas , 0 que dao ao seu l ivro , As politicas de produgf1o, u rn campo raro de comparacoes internaciona is e aprofundamento emplrico . Este e u rn l ivro cuja tese contem d u a s partes, ou seja , a arg umentayao de que a classe tra ba l hadora ind ustria l tern fe ito intervenyoes sign ificativas e auto-conscientes na h istori a , e q u e essas intervenyoes foram e cont inuam a s e r formadas pelo processo de produyao. C o m esta obra , crit ica o s estudos sobre processo d e traba lho q u e se concentram na expl icayao econ6mica e desafia a separacao d a base econ6mica da super-estrutu ra pol lt ica . Nesta l i nha , considera que a recons trucao do marxismo passa pelo exame de como 0 processo de produyao forma a cia sse traba lhadora industria l , nao a penas objetivamente , isto e , pelo tipo de traba lho que faz, mas tambem subj eti vamente , ou seja , pelas lutas engendradas por u ma experiencia espedfica ou interpretay5es daque le traba lho . Estrutu ra seu l ivro em cinco capltu los : 0 processo de traba lho na sociedade capita l ista ; Karl Marx e as fabricas satan icas ; a transformacao dos reg i mes fabris sob 0 capita l ismo ava ncado ; tra ba lhadores e m estado socia l ista e 0 l a r ocu lto do sub-desenvolvimento. A ana l ise de B URAWOY sobre a obra de BRAVERMAN e u m tanto paradoxa l pois , ao tempo em que a recon hece como insuperave l , se pro poe a crit icaIa ; ao tempo em que nega a infiuencia de B RAVERMAN n a sua vida d iaria , admite manter-se no marxismo e uti l iza os pressupostos deste teorico para enriquecer as suas ana l ises e, particu larmente , 0 segundo capitu lo de As Politicas de Produgfio . Entretanto , ao lado de BRAVERMAN , ele e crit icado por nao privi leg iar a s u bjetividade e pela postura essencia l ista , que tambem 0 faz superest imar 0 poder do gerente . Ao Emtender , d iferentemente de BRAVERMAN(1 ) , que e 0 ocu ltamento s imultaneo a gara nt ia d o excede nte e nao 0 contro le , a essencia do processo de traba lho capita l ista , Burawoy busca 0 seu fundamento no feuda l ismo, por considera r que nos modos de producao nao capita l ista a exp loracao e transparente . Com esta posiyao, fica a ideia de que os trabalhadores (servos) ass u me m a explora9ao de forma consciente e imed iata . Entretanto , a a usencia de evidencias emplricas e teoricas que confi rmerr esta ind ica9ao nos leva a questionar: neste caso , estaria 0 consent imento l igado a u ma pseudo-consciencia?
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01 Jan 1959
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and show that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.
Abstract: This incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that shed light on the tensions of the Cold War and the deeper impulses leading to the American intervention in Vietnam. William Appleman Williams brilliantly explores the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The powerful relevance of Williams's interpretation to world politics has only been strengthened by recent events in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Williams allows us to see that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.
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24 Sep 1987
TL;DR: The role of the nation state and its violence in our social sciences has been highlighted by as mentioned in this paper, who argue that "the violence has not, for the most part, been the result of the fierce class struggles anticipated by Marx".
Abstract: 'The twentieth century is' as Anthony Giddens reminds us in his introduction (p. 3), 'a bloody and frightening one'. And the violence has not, for the most part, been the result of the fierce class struggles anticipated by Marx. Not only modem Marxists but social scientists of all persuasions have failed to adequately address the contrast between the 'long peace' of the nineteenth century and the horrors, actual and potential, of our century. This is because the immediate roots of our social science lie in this 'long peace' when so-called peaceful industrial society seemed so far advanced on the warlike military societies of Europe's past. Such an optimistic contrast between present and past is clearly no longer tenable and yet we continue to neglect the role of the nation state and its violence in our social
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