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

314 Pages·2008·2.933 MB·English

by  Stephen Gill (auth.)

Power and Resistance in the New World Order
Also by Stephen Gill
POWER, PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION: Human In/security in
the Global Political Economy (co-editor with Isabella Bakkerr)
GLOBALIZATION, DEMOCRATIZATION AND MULTILATERALISM
INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
(co-editorwith James H. Mittelman)
CHIKU SEIJI NO SAIKOCHIKU: Reisengo no Nichibeiou Kankei to Sekai
Chitsujo (Restructuring Global Politics)
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: Understanding Global Disorder
(co-author with R. W. Cox, Björn Hettne, James Rosenau, Yoshikazu Sakamoto & Kees
van der Pijl)
GRAMSCI, HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
ATLANTIC RELATIONS: Beyond the Reagan Era
THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: Perspectives, Problems and Policies
(co-author with David Law)
Power and Resistance in
the New World Order
2nd Edition, Fully Revised
and Updated
Stephen Gill
© Stephen Gill 2002, 2008
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Contents
Acknowledgements x
Preface to the First Edition xiv
Preface to the Second Edition xix
1 Reading Gramsci xx
2 The universal contradiction xxiii
A Word on the Structure of the Book xxvi
1 Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences 1
1.1 Politics in the classroom and the politics of class 2
1.2 A sociological perspective on world order 5
1.3 Disciplinary neo-liberalism and the end of history 8
Part I Social and International Theory 11
2 Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of
Political Economy 15
2.1 Epistemology and politics 15
2.2 Differences between Gramscian and positivist
approaches 17
2.3 The critique of political economy: four arguments 20
2.4 Beyond vulgar Marxism and the orthodox discourses 38
3 Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order 42
3.1 The limits of the possible 43
3.2 The emergence of modern world orders 47
3.3 Twentieth-century world order: between hegemony
and passive revolution 58
3.4 T wenty-first century world order: dialectic between
the old and radically new 64
4 Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism 67
4.1 Cultural resistance after the Chilean coup, 1973 68
4.2 The Chilean question and global politics 70
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Part II The Political Economy of World Order 73
5 US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects 80
5.1 Theories of hegemonic decline and the
conventional wisdom 81
5.2 A critique of the conventional wisdom 85
5.3 Decline or continuity? 89
5.4 US hegemony and transnational capitalism 91
5.5 Towards a more liberal and transnational hegemony 96
6 The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural 100
6.1 Historic blocs and social structures of accumulation 100
6.2 States, markets and the power of capital 103
6.3 The direct power of capital 107
6.4 The structural power of capital 109
6.5 The power of capital: limits and contradictions 116
7 Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary
Neo-Liberalism 123
7.1 Introduction 124
7.2 Analyzing power and knowledge in the global
political economy 127
7.3 The meaning of ‘globalization’ 130
7.4 ‘Disciplinary’ neo-liberalism 137
7.5 New constitutionalism and global governance 138
7.6 Panopticism and the coercive face of the
neo-liberal state 142
7.7 Neo-liberal contradictions and the movement
of history 145
8 The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis 150
8.1 Crisis, danger and opportunity 151
8.2 The ‘usual suspects’ and the imposition
of neo-liberalism 152
8.3 Mystification and the East Asian model 154
8.4 T he restructuring of East Asia and the new
geopolitics of capital 155
8.5 Conclusion 159
9 Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism 161
9.1 Introduction 161
9.2 Property rights, contracts and the liberal rule of law 163
9.3 Dimensions of new constitutionalism 169
9.4 Conclusion 175
Contents ix
Part III Global Transformation and Political Agency 177
10 Globalizing Élites in the Emerging World Order 183
10.1 Global disintegration-integration 183
10.2 Perspectives, classes and élites 192
10.3 Globalizing élites and social stratification 193
10.4 Globalism, territorialism and the United States 197
10.5 Concluding reflections 203
11 Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism 206
11.1 Panoptic power 208
11.2 American informational capitalism and
world power 213
11.3 Expanded reproduction of capital and social order 216
11.4 Production and social reproduction 221
11.5 US social order/disorder: enclavisation and
incarceration 223
11.6 Homeland security 225
11.7 ‘Future image architecture’: monitoring enemies
and friends 227
11.8 Conclusion 232
12 The Post-modern Prince 237
12.1 Why the WTO talks failed? 238
12.2 The contradictions of neo-liberal globalization
and the Seattle protests 240
12.3 Towards a post-modern Prince? 244
13 Alternatives, Real and Imagined 249
13.1 Alternative concepts of global leadership 250
13.2 G lobal relations of force and changing
conditions of existence 253
13.3 G lobal alternatives: dominant, progressive
and reactionary 256
13.4 Latin America and Brazil: limits and possibilities 261
13.5 I magining the future of the progressive
movements: six propositions 265
Bibliographyy 270
Index 279