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| Imperialism and global geopolitical disorder
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| I. Imperialism in the 20th century
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| a) The foundations of Lenin's theory
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| (J.A. Hobson, Hilferding, Rosa and Bukharin)
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| Are the characteristics according to Lenin still valid today?
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| b) Imperialism in the two Wars
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| c) Cold War imperialism and the struggles for national liberation
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| II. Neo-liberal globalisation
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| a) Financial globalisation (Chesnais, Husson), globalisation of the chains of production and accumulation by dispossession (David Harvey)
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| b) Imperialism and global inequality: the theses of Claudio Katz
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| c) Armed globalisation - the "war on terror" and the war on drugs militarise life; the passing dream of a unipolar imperialism.
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| III. Imperialism and neoliberalism in the 21st century: apogee or radicalisation?
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| a) A new historical epoch - Daniel Bensaïd, 1995
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| NAFTA (1993), Maastricht (1992), WTO (1995)
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| b) The rise of China and the transformation of Russia
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| c) New characteristics of the system? The Dardot and Laval thesis
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| d) Anti-imperialist waves: the Latin American "Pink Tide" and the Arab Spring
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| IV. Imperialism in a new crisis (since 2008) and reconfiguration
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| a) The nature of the imperialist crisis
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| b) The rise of China, phase II: trade wars, sea lanes, one belt, one road - and Hong Kong
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| c) The role of Putin's Russia
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| d) Crises in the Middle East and fundamentalisms
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| e) Brexit, Trump and the new global far right, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Modi, Duda, Orban - what do they mean? The dispute between two fractions of imperialist capital
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| V. The current picture: the world of pandemics and climate catastrophes
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| a) Covid-19, the convergence of crises and changes in the world situation
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| b) The defeat of Trump and the weakening of Modi and Bolsonaro
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| c) The enduring strength of the far right, despite the multiplication of resistance. The weakness of the reformist and anti-capitalist left.
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| d) Imperial strategy under Biden: Back to Obama? - the US, China, 'the Quad' and Europe
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| e) Opening up opportunities for the anti-capitalist left?
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| To read:
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| V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Excerpts), 1916.
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| Claudio Katz, "Imperialism in the 21st Century" (Excerpts), 2002
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| David Harvey, The New Imperialism, 2004. Chapter IV, Accumulation by Spoliation (Excerpts)
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| Dadot and Laval - "Anatomy of the New Neoliberalism", 2019,
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| Capitalist globalisation, imperialisms, geopolitical chaos and its implications; I, II, IV and IX (document of the IV World Congress 2018)
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| Pierre Rousset, Chinese ambitions - An imperialism in formation, excerpt: part I only, June 2014 (English translation)
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| IC 2021: Report on International Situation, Introduction, IV, V and VI, 2021
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| Suggested reading:
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| Callinicos, Alex, "Brexit: a world-historical turn", International Socialism 151, 27 June 2016.
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| Chesnais, François, La mondialisation du capital, Alternatives économiques, 1997; or Chesnais, François, La Mundialización Financiera, Losada, 2001.
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| Dardot, Pierre and Laval, Christian, La nouvelle raison du monde - essay on neoliberal society, Gedisa, Barcelona, 2013. La nouvelle raison du monde, edition La Découvert, Paris, 2009-2010. The new way of the world - on neoliberalism, Verso Books, 2017 Introduction and Conclusions.
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| Rousset, Pierre: "What are the implications of Donald Trump's election?" 2017.
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| Wood, Ellen Meiksins, El imperio del Capital, El Viejo Topo, 2004. Empire of Capital, Verso Books, 2003.
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