Opponents of the Iraq war often highlight the importance of oil when explaining why the invasion took place. While leaders at the time denied it was a motivation there is no doubt the country’s huge oilfields did offer possible post-conflict opportunities for the Iraqi industry and [...]
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Imperialism confronts us in a number of guises: either as formal or informal, a period of history, a type of state, or a monolithic institution, a thing-unto-itself, called an ‘empire’. These are all quite common views of imperialism in both popular and academic literature. In recent years, [...]
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Polarizing Development is the result of a collaborative project that started in 2011 with a debate on the theoretical foundations of development studies. We realised that after ten years from the height of the alter-globalisation movement and four years after the eruption of the global [...]
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Both Andreas Bieler and me want to thank Alex Callinicos for his engagement and reply ‘Fighting the Last War’ to our article, ‘Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel?: Spaces of New Imperialism and the Iraq War’ published in Historical Materialism. Despite some of the language of his [...]
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Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton have just published a long and wide ranging article on imperialism.1 Since my own version of the classical Marxist theory of imperialism, along with William Robinson’s theory of transnational capitalism, serves as a counterfoil for their own argument, I thought [...]
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Did the Iraq war simply reflect the unitary decision by the U.S. state to assert its interests in the global political economy or was it the result of co-operation by a group of allied capitalist countries to secure access to oil in the Middle East? Alternatively, did the use of military [...]
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The article mentioned in this post ‘The Enduring Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital‘, is finally confirmed for publication in hard copy in the Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol.19, No.3 (2016), pp. 420-47 and is available [...]
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