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Excerpt: /386/ Reading Club: Globalisation (III & IV)

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Double episode! On Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing.
 
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We wrap up the 2023 syllabus by taking on the second half of Arrighi's book, in which he analyses the over-reach and decline of the US empire, and whether China's rise and role in world affairs presents a different model, one that might be more peaceful. We discuss:
  • How important was the neo-cons' Project for a New American Century?
  • What were the long-term consequences of the Iraq invasion?
  • What do we make of Arrighi's theoretical account of imperialism and the tension between territorial and capitalistic logics?
  • Did the USA represent a "world state" after WWII, and how did it fail?
  • What is the world-historic meaning of China’s development?
  • Do we buy Arrighi’s attempt at a Smithean vision of inter-civilizational harmony?
    • Links:
    Adam Smith in Beijing:Lineages of the Twenty-First Century, Giovanni Arrighi
  • /305/ Techno-Feudal Unreason - on 'political' capitalism and plunder
  • /250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson - on imperialism, the world system and energy
  • /195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber - on China avoiding neoliberal shock-therapy
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