Power and Resistance in the New World Order 2nd edition, Fully Revised and Updated

by Gill, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780230203709
• ISBN10: 0230203701
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This challenging work develops a radical theory of the new world order to argue that as the globalization of power intensifies, so too do globalized forms of resistance. Stephen Gill explains how the dialectic of power and resistance involves issues of governance, economy, and culture. This struggle is reflected in the questions of American supremacy, the power of capital, market civilization, and surveillance power. Thus new forms of political agency and collective action are emerging to challenge dominant powers.

Author Biography

STEPHEN GILL is Professor of Political Science at York University, Canada. A leading authority on political economy and international studies, his publications include Global Political Economy, American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission, Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations and Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
Preface to the First Edition	p. xiv
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xix
Reading Gramsci	p. xx
The universal contradiction	p. xxiii
A Word on the Structure of the Book	p. xxvi
Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences	p. 1
Politics in the classroom and the politics of class	p. 2
A sociological perspective on world order	p. 5
Disciplinary neo-liberalism and the end of history	p. 8
Social and International Theory	p. 11
Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of Political Economy	p. 15
Epistemology and politics	p. 15
Differences between Gramscian and positivist approaches	p. 17
The critique of political economy: four arguments	p. 20
Beyond vulgar Marxism and the orthodox discourses	p. 38
Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order	p. 42
The limits of the possible	p. 43
The emergence of modern world orders	p. 47
Twentieth-century world order: between hegemony and passive revolution	p. 58
Twenty-first century world order: dialectic between the old and radically new	p. 64
Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism	p. 67
Cultural resistance after the Chilean coup, 1973	p. 68
The Chilean question and global politics	p. 70
The Political Economy of World Order	p. 73
US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects	p. 80
Theories of hegemonic decline and the conventional wisdom	p. 81
A critique of the conventional wisdom	p. 85
Decline or continuity?	p. 89
US hegemony and transnational capitalism	p. 91
Towards a more liberal and transnational hegemony	p. 96
The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural	p. 100
Historic blocs and social structures of accumulation	p. 100
States, markets and the power of capital	p. 103
The direct power of capital	p. 107
The structural power of capital	p. 109
The power of capital: limits and contradictions	p. 116
Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism	p. 123
Introduction	p. 124
Analyzing power and knowledge in the global political economy	p. 127
The meaning of 'globalization'	p. 130
'Disciplinary' neo-liberalism	p. 137
New constitutionalism and global governance	p. 138
Panopticism and the coercive face of the neo-liberal state	p. 142
Neo-liberal contradictions and the movement of history	p. 145
The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis	p. 150
Crisis, danger and opportunity	p. 151
The 'usual suspects' and the imposition of neo-liberalism	p. 152
Mystification and the East Asian model	p. 154
The restructuring of East Asia and the new geopolitics of capital	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 159
Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism	p. 161
Introduction	p. 161
Property rights, contracts and the liberal rule of law	p. 163
Dimensions of new constitutionalism	p. 169
Conclusion	p. 175
Global Transformation and Political Agency	p. 177
Globalizing Elites in the Emerging World Order	p. 183
Global disintegration-integration	p. 183
Perspectives, classes and elites	p. 192
Globalizing elites and social stratification	p. 193
Globalism, territorialism and the United States	p. 197
Concluding reflections	p. 203
Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism	p. 206
Panoptic power	p. 208
American informational capitalism and world power	p. 213
Expanded reproduction of capital and social order	p. 216
Production and social reproduction	p. 221
US social order/disorder: enclavisation and incarceration	p. 223
Homeland security	p. 225
'Future image architecture': monitoring enemies and friends	p. 227
Conclusion	p. 232
The Post-modern Prince	p. 237
Why the WTO talks failed?	p. 238
The contradictions of neo-liberal globalization and the Seattle protests	p. 240
Towards a post-modern Prince?	p. 244
Alternatives, Real and Imagined	p. 249
Alternative concepts of global leadership	p. 250
Global relations of force and changing conditions of existence	p. 253
Global alternatives: dominant, progressive and reactionary	p. 256
Latin America and Brazil: limits and possibilities	p. 261
Imagining the future of the progressive movements: six propositions	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 270
Index	p. 279
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