Difference between revisions of "2. Imperialism and geopolitical disorder"
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NAFTA (1993), Maastricht (1992), WTO (1995) | NAFTA (1993), Maastricht (1992), WTO (1995) | ||
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Latin America’s Pink Tide (and extractivism): challenge and crisis | Latin America’s Pink Tide (and extractivism): challenge and crisis | ||
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| − | China’s rise, phase II: trade wars, sea lanes, One Belt One Road – and | + | IV. Imperialism in crisis (from 2008) |
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| + | China’s rise, phase II: trade wars, sea lanes, One Belt One Road – and Hong Kong | ||
| − | Crises in the Middle East | + | Crises in the Middle East |
| − | Clashes with Russia | + | Clashes with Russia |
| − | Brexit, Trump and the new far right | + | Brexit, Trump and the new far right |
A Latin American Trump: Bolsonaro (and his divided opposition) | A Latin American Trump: Bolsonaro (and his divided opposition) | ||
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Covid-19: nail in the coffin of hyperglobalization | Covid-19: nail in the coffin of hyperglobalization | ||
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| − | + | Back to Obama? – the US, China, ‘the Quad’ & Europe | |
| + | Openings for the left? | ||
Latest revision as of 14:04, 23 November 2020
Outline:
I. 20th-century imperialism
Basics of Lenin’s theory
Cold War imperialism and wars of national liberation
Consumerist imperialism: oil and cars
II. Neoliberal globalization and the ‘war on terror’
Imperialism and global inequality: Claudio Katz’s theses
Supply chains: from national to global
Accumulation by dispossession (David Harvey)
Armed globalization and the ‘clash of barbarisms’
III. Neoliberalism’s apogee: hyperglobalization
NAFTA (1993), Maastricht (1992), WTO (1995)
China’s rise, phase I: Foxcomm and Walmart – the role of Hong Kong
Latin America’s Pink Tide (and extractivism): challenge and crisis
IV. Imperialism in crisis (from 2008)
China’s rise, phase II: trade wars, sea lanes, One Belt One Road – and Hong Kong
Crises in the Middle East
Clashes with Russia
Brexit, Trump and the new far right
A Latin American Trump: Bolsonaro (and his divided opposition)
Covid-19: nail in the coffin of hyperglobalization
V. And now Biden
Main lesson of election: enduring strength of far right
Back to Obama? – the US, China, ‘the Quad’ & Europe
Openings for the left?
- V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, (Excerpts), 1917
- Claudio Katz, "Imperialism in 21st Century", (Excerpts) 2002
- Fourth International [http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5447 Capitalist globalization, imperialisms, geopolitical chaos and their implications, excerpts: part I, II, IV
