Transnational Classes and International Relations

Transnational Classes and International Relations
Author: Kees van der Pijl
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415192002

Presenting an analysis of class formation in the global political economy, this text studies the growth of an integrated transnational capitalist class, from Freemasonry in the late 1800s to contemporary planning groups with a class orientation.

Transnational Classes and International Relations

Transnational Classes and International Relations
Author: Kees Van der Pijl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2005-08-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113465250X

An exciting and original analysis of the development of capitalist classes, such as the Freemasons, that cross national boundaries in the global political economy. This innovative book focuses on: * an historical perspective on class formation under capitalism and its transnational integration * international relations between the English-speaking centre of capital and successive contender states. The author develops a broad-ranging and thorough understanding of class in the process of globalization. He does so within several theoretical frameworks shedding much light on this important topic.

The Transnational Capitalist Class

The Transnational Capitalist Class
Author: Leslie Sklair
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780631224624

While most of the popular and academic debates explore ideas of globalization, The Transnational Capitalist Class goes one step further and provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain and deconstruct the process of globalization as seen by the corporations themselves. Using personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty Fortune Global 500 corporations, as well as already published sources, Sklair demonstrates how globalization works from the perspective of those who control and oppose the major globalizing corporations and their allies in government and the media. The book explores two major crises of globalization - class polarization and ecological sustainability - and shows how the transnational capitalist class attempts to resolve these crises and evaluates its own success and failure. Sklair's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to what has become a key debate of our time.

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 857
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190630574

Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations-including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications. The chapters discuss various aspects in the field through a broad range of approaches. This handbook focuses on global studies more than on the phenomenon of globalization itself, although the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped

A Theory of Global Capitalism

A Theory of Global Capitalism
Author: William I. Robinson
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2004-03-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801879272

Sure to stir controversy and debate, A Theory of Global Capitalism will be of interest to sociologists and economists alike.

Globalizing the Caribbean

Globalizing the Caribbean
Author: Jeb Sprague
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781439916551

The beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around the region, as national regulations are reworked to promote conditions benefiting private capital. Globalizing the Caribbean offers a probing account of the region’s experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of workers. Jeb Sprague focuses on the social and material nature of this new era in the history of world capitalism. He combines an historical overview of capitalism in the region with theoretical analysis backed by case studies. Sprague elaborates upon the role of class formation and the restructuring of local states. He considers both U.S. hegemony, and how various upsurges from below and crises occur. He examines the globalization of the cruise ship and mining businesses, looks at the growth of migrant labor and reverse flow of remittances, and describes the evolving role of export processing and supranational associations. In doing so, Sprague shows how transnationally oriented elites have come to rule the Caribbean, and how capitalist globalization in the region occurs alongside shifting political, institutional, and organizational dynamics.

Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Author: William I. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107067472

This book discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control.

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics
Author: Daniel Woodley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317755723

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial statecraft, and remains reluctant to recognize the realities global economic convergence, the age of imperial state hegemony is giving way to a new international order characterized by capitalist sovereignty and competition between regional and transnational concentrations of economic power. This title seeks to interrogate the structure of world order by examining leading approaches to globalization and political economy in international relations and international political economy. Breaking with the classical school, Woodley argues that geopolitics should be understood as a transnational strategic practice employed by powerful state actors, which mirrors predatory corporate rivalry for control over global resources and markets, reproducing the structural conditions for corporate power through the transnational state form of capital. In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis. It is valuable resource for students and scholars seeking to develop a deeper understanding of the historical determinants of the changing dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and their implications for world order.

Rooted Globalism

Rooted Globalism
Author: Kevin Funk
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 025306256X

Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class? In Rooted Globalism, Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based, Arab-descendant elite class, some of whom also occupy positions of political power in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Based on extensive fieldwork, Funk illuminates how these elites navigate their Arab ancestry, Latin American host cultures, and roles as protagonists of globalization. With the term "rooted globalism," Funk captures the emergence of classed intersectional identities that are simultaneously local, national, transnational, and global. Focusing on an oft-ignored axis of South-South relations (between Latin America and the Arab world), Rooted Globalism provides detailed analysis of the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities, global capitalism relies on them.

The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class

The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class
Author: William K. Carroll
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-09-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781848134423

Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world's largest corporations and related political organizations. Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that spans the three decades of the late 20th and early 21st century, when capitalist globalization attained unprecedented momentum, propelled both by the transnationalization of accumulation and by the political paradigm of transnational neoliberalism. This has been an era in which national governments have deregulated capital, international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum have gained prominence, and production and finance have become more fully transnational, increasing the structural power of capital over communities and workers. Within this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing spirited opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also a struggle over alternative global futures.