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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.
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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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TL;DR: Gramsci's major theoretical concern is the role of politics and culture as discussed by the authors, arguing that culture provides a meaningful conception of their world and their place in it, and that it denotes rules or norms of behavior corresponding to that conception.
Abstract: I TALIAN PARTY LEADER and philosopher Antonio Gramsci is among the most innovative thinkers to have emerged from the Marxist tradition. Though grounded in the realities of the capitalist economic system, Gramsci's major theoretical concern is the role of politics and culture. For the people of a given society, he argues, "culture" provides a meaningful conception of their world and their place in it-that is, it denotes rules or norms of behavior corresponding to that conception. 1 It is his emphasis on culture, in the broad sense, that makes Gramsci such a remarkable, and even intriguing, figure-and renders his theoretical insights so broadly relevant. My purpose in this essay is to demonstrate the importance of these insights for an understanding of political and social change in Third World countries, and specifically Thailand. Cultural conceptions and norms underlie two of Gramsci's major contributions to the analysis of society: the linked notions of "hegemony" and "domination"; and the importance of "civil society," by which Gramsci means institutions and associations operating at an intermediate level between the economic structure, on the one hand, and the state apparatus, on the other. Such institutions notably include labor unions, the press, schools and universities, courts of law and, above all, political parties. For Gramsci, this intermediate cultural level of social action affects both the direct impact of class rule, in terms of economic interests, and the state's need to rely on force to maintain its control. It also forms the basis for "hegemony"-the exercise of leadership with popular consent. Conversely, the outright use of force by the economic or political power-holders is called "domination. "2 Gramsci's elaboration of these concepts is derived from his own fateful experience of the rise of fascism in the Italy of the 1920s and, even more significantly, the consolidation of fascist power during the
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TL;DR: A careful rereading of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks shows that Marx's great and unfinished project of the critique of political economy plays a crucial role for Gramsi's efforts to come to grips with the basics of a critical social science that could live up to the aspirations of a ''scientific socialism'' as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: According to conventional wisdom, Antonio Gramsci is a political philosopher lacking in, and who avoids, a serious interest in political economy. That is a serious misrepresentation of Gramsci's works and thought. Equally wrong is the widespread view that anything Gramsci had to say about political economy is to be found in his scattered notes on `Americanism and Fordism'. On the contrary, a careful rereading of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks shows that Marx's great and unfinished project of the critique of political economy plays a crucial role for Gramsci's efforts to come to grips with the basics of a critical social science that could live up to the aspirations of a `scientific socialism'. As Gramsci was fully aware of the everyday battles of ideas in capitalist societies to be fought about the notions and tenets of popular or vulgar political economy, he did the best he could in order to understand and clarify the bases of a `critical' and `scientific' political economy. A political economy that was and still is urgently needed in order to fight the strongest of the strongholds of bourgeois hegemony - the ideas of vulgar economics in everybody's heads.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present Dragons, Tigers, and Other Myths of Our Time, including the emergence of Industrial Behemoths and the making of industrial behemoths: Patterns of State Intervention and Industrial Organization.
Abstract: Preface and AcknowledgementsList of Tables and FiguresIntroduction: Dragons, Tigers and Other Myths of Our Time1. Geopolitical Ecology of US HegemonyKorean War, Military Keynesianism, and the New World OrderFree Enterprise System and the Changing Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Production2. Strong States, Weak Societies: State and Class in the Asian RimlandsRecasting State-Society RelationsSummary3. The Making of Industrial Behemoths: Patterns of State Intervention and Industrial OrganizationPolitics in Command?Patterns of Industrial Organization4. Crisis of US Hegemony and the Growth of Regional Economic Integration in Pacific-AsiaThe Gathering StormRiding the Dollar JuggernautMaking the 'Miracle' Economies of the Pacific RimReprise and Review5. Debts and Delusions: Crumbling of a Regional EconomyYears of Living DangerouslyA Paradise of the BlindThings Fall ApartA Change of Skies6. A Bonfire of IllusionsA Brave New WorldHouses of GlassEpilogue: A Future Imperfect: Remaking a Regional EconomyNotesTablesFiguresBibliography
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03 Jun 1998
TL;DR: In this paper, interviews with top management steel personnel on a global basis, as well as information drawn from the American Iron and Steel Institute, the International Iron & Steel Institute (IISI), the Japan IMTI, Metal Bulletin, and American Metal Market are presented.
Abstract: Sources for this book consist principally of interviews with top management steel personnel on a global basis, as well as information drawn from the American Iron and Steel Institute, the International Iron and Steel Institute, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, Metal Bulletin, and American Metal Market. DLC: Steel industry and trade Forecasting.
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12 Mar 2007
TL;DR: Hart-Landsberg et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the South Korean economy in a global perspective, focusing on land reform and capitalist development in South Korea, and a critical appraisal of the Park Chung Hee system.
Abstract: Contents: Preface Introduction Marxist perspectives on South Korea in the global economy, Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra Part 1 Marxian Method and South Korean Capitalism: Introduction Trend of Marxian ratios in Korea: 1970a "2003, Seongjin Jeong Uneven development of the rates of surplus value: the case of South Korea, Dong-Min Rieu State, market, and stages of capitalism in South Korean development, Richard Westra. Part 2 The South Korean Economy in Global Perspective: Introduction China and the dynamics of transnational capital accumulation, Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett Changing patterns of accumulation and realization in East Asia since the 1990s, Joseph Halevi and Peter Kriesler. Part 3 The South Korean Economy in Historical Perspectives: Introduction Land reform and capitalist development in Korea, Sang-Hwan Jang A critical appraisal of the Park Chung Hee system, Soohaeng Kim and Seung-Ho Park. Part 4 The South Korean Economy into the Future: Introduction The South Korean economy: problems and prospects, Martin Hart-Landsberg When capital becomes society: the re-composition of capitalist work and new labor activism in Korea, Dae-oup Chang Appendix: major political and economic events in Korea, 1945a "2006 References Index.
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