Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy

305 Pages·2015·2.774 MB·English

by  Radhika Desai

THEORETICAL ENGAGEMENTS
IN
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY
RESEARCH IN POLITICAL
ECONOMY
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RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY VOLUME 30A
THEORETICAL
ENGAGEMENTS
IN
GEOPOLITICAL
ECONOMY
EDITED BY
RADHIKA DESAI
University of Manitoba, Canada
United Kingdom (cid:1) North America (cid:1) Japan
India (cid:1) Malaysia (cid:1) China
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD vii
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTION: FROM THE NEOCLASSICAL
DIVERSION TO GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY
Radhika Desai 1
THE UNEVEN AND COMBINED DEVELOPMENT OF
INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
Kees van der Pijl 45
THE COLLAPSEOF ‘THE INTERNATIONAL
IMAGINATION’: A CRITIQUE OF THE
TRANSHISTORICAL APPROACH TO UNEVEN AND
COMBINED DEVELOPMENT
Se´bastien Rioux 85
LOCATING THE STATE: UNEVEN AND COMBINED
DEVELOPMENT, THE STATES SYSTEM AND THE
POLITICAL
Steve Rolf 113
EXPANDING GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY: A
CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF SUCCESSIVE
HEGEMONIES
James Parisot 155
GROSS DOMESTIC POWER: GEOPOLITICAL
ECONOMY AND THE HISTORY OF NATIONAL
ACCOUNTS
Jacob Assa 175
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vi CONTENTS
MILITARY POWER AND TRADE POLICY (cid:1) ROOTS
OF CONTEMPORARYGEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY
Oldrich Krpec and Vladan Hodulak 205
UNDERSTANDING EURASIAN INTEGRATION AND
CONTESTATION IN THE POST-SOVIET
CONJUNCTURE: LESSONS FROM GEOPOLITICAL
ECONOMY AND CRITICAL HISTORICISM
Ray Silvius 235
GEOGRAPHIES OF CAPITAL ACCUMULATION:
TRACING THE EMERGENCE OF MULTI-POLARITY,
1980(cid:1)2014
Paul Kellogg 259
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
GENERAL EDITOR
Paul Zarembka
StateUniversityofNewYorkatBuffalo,USA
EDITORIALBOARD
RadhikaDesai OzgurOrhangazi
UniversityofManitoba,Canada KadirHasUniversity,Turkey
JuanitaElias PaulCooneySeisdedos
UniversityofWarwick,UK UniversidadeFederaldoPara´,
Brazil
ThomasFerguson
UniversityofMassachusettsat SusanneSoederberg
Boston,USA QueensUniversity,Canada
SeongjinJeong JanToporowski
GyeongsangNationalUniversity, TheSchoolofOrientalandAfrican
SouthKorea Studies,UniversityofLondon,UK
JieMeng
TsinghuaUniversity,People’s
RepublicofChina
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Jacob Assa Department of Economics, New School of
Social Research, New York, NY, USA
Radhika Desai Department of Political Studies,
Geopolitical Economy Research Group,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Vladan Hodulak Department of International Relations and
EuropeanStudies, Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic
Paul Kellogg Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies,
Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada
Oldrich Krpec Department of International Relations and
EuropeanStudies, Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic
James Parisot Department of Sociology, Binghamton
University, Vestal, NY, USA
Se´bastien Rioux Department of Geography, Universite´ de
Montre´al, Montre´al, Canada
Steve Rolf School of Sociology, Politics, and
International Studies, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UK
Ray Silvius Department of Political Science, University
of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Kees van der Pijl Centre for Global Political Economy,
University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
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