Towards a New Political Economy of Development States and Regions in the Post-Neoliberal World

by Strange, Gerard

• ISBN13: 9781137277367
• ISBN10: 113727736X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-28
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The author offers a fresh analysis of the globalised political economy of development in the wake of the unravelling of neoliberalism and new challenges to US global dominance. Gerard Strange sees development as a phenomenon of vital interest not
just to so-called emerging economies like China and the other 'BRICS' but also to world order as a whole. The book suggests that in the post-global financial crisis era all states and regions, including the supposedly dominant ones, must grapple with the problem of how to square development with a form of globalisation in which power is increasingly diffused and contested if not equal. Providing detailed case studies focusing on China, Latin America and the European Union, Strange traces the emergence of new development strategies heavily influenced by the ideas and legacy of Keynes, but updated to take account of globalisation during the neoliberal era. Looking beyond both protectionism and neoliberal austerity, the book sketches out a terrain for world order in which new forms of 'post-Listian' actorness and cooperation make a more equal and stable globalisation feasible.

Author Biography

Gerard (Gerry) Strange is Reader in International Political Economy at the University of Lincoln, UK, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. He is winner of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations Best Article Award 2013 for 'Understanding the Fundamentals of Capital, the Crisis and the Alternatives: Marx's Legacy Beyond Revolutionary Marxism'.

Table of Contents

PART I: GLOBALISATION, THE NEW DEVELOPMENTALISM AND WORLD ORDER CHANGE: AFTER NEOLIBERALISM AND HEGEMONY
1.Introduction: Globalisation, the Diffusion of Power, and the Post-Listian Developmentalist Turn: the Structural Parameters of Contemporary World Order Change
2.Globalisation's Impact on States, Strategies and Accumulation Regimes: From Neoliberalism to the New Keynesian Macroeconomics

PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA'S POST-LISTIAN RISE: STATE DEVELOPMENTALISM BEYOND NEOMERCANTILISM
3.Debating Contemporary Developmentalism and the 'China Model': From Neomercantilism to 'Gated' Globalisation
4.Beyond The Gated Globe: China as a Post-Listian Developmental State

PART III: FROM THE POST-NEOLIBERAL LATIN AMERICAN QUAGMIRE TO SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONAL AND REGIONAL NEODEVELOPMENTALISM
5.The New Developmental Regionalism In Post-Neoliberal South America
6.The Theoretical Contestation of Developmental Regionalism in South America
7.National Neodevelopmentalist Models in South America
8.The Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities of the Liberal Neodevelopmentalist Model

PART IV: THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE EUROZONE: A DEVELOPMENTAL OUTLIER IN CRISIS AND REFORM
9.The Political Economy of 'Maastricht EMU': Depoliticisation and the German Model
10. The French Model of European Monetary Union: Sovereignty, the Eurozone Debt Crisis and the Repoliticisation of the Euro
11. Conclusion: Developmentalist Globalisation, US Decline and Post-Listian World Order