Introduction: The Materiality of Nations in Geopolitical Economy

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Author(s): Radhika Desai

Publication date (Print): Winter 2015

Journal: World Review of Political Economy

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Keywords: state and economy, combined development, uneven and combined development, geopolitical economy

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This introduction contextualizes the articles that follow in a discussion of relevant elements of the critical theme of the “materiality of nations” in geopolitical economy. In particular, it focuses on the need to understand the evolution of capitalist states and their domestic and international economic roles in terms of the contradictions of capitalism; the need to unite the normally separated economic and political logics of capitalism in an overall historical understanding; the need to understand combined development as including capitalist combined development and the dialectic of uneven and combined development as the key driver of capitalist international relations.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): worlrevipoliecon

Title: World Review of Political Economy

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ISSN (Print): 2042891X

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Publication date (Print): Winter 2015

Volume: 6

Issue: 4

Pages: 449-458

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[1] Amsden, A. H. 1992. Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization . New York: Oxford University Press.

[2] Amsden, A. H. 2001. The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[3] Amsden, A. H. 2007. Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[4] Brenner, R. 1998. “The Economics of Global Turbulence.” New Left Review I/229 (May–June): 1–265.

[5] Callinicos, Alex. 2007. “Does Capitalism Need the State System?” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20 (4): 534–49.

[6] Carpintero, O., I. Murray, and J. Bellver. 2015. “The New Scramble for Africa: BRICS Strategies in a Multipolar World.” In volume 30A of Research in Political Economy: Analytical Gains of Geopolitical Economy , edited by R. Desai, 191–227. Bingley: Emerald.

[7] Chang, H.-J. 2002. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective . London: Anthem.

[8] Coates, D. 2000. Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era . Oxford: Polity Press.

[9] Desai, R. 2010. “The Absent Geopolitics of Pure Capitalism.” World Review of Political Economy 1 (3): 463–84.

[10] Desai, R. 2012. “Marx, List and the Materiality of Nations”. Rethinking Marxism 24 (1): 47–67.

[11] Desai, R. 2013. Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire . London: Pluto Press.

[12] Desai, R. 2015a. “Look Back in Hope? Reassessing Regulation Theory.” In The International Political Economy of Production , edited by K. Van der Pijl, 192–210. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

[13] Desai, R. 2015b. Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy . Volume 30A of Research in Political Economy . Bingley: Emerald.

[14] Desai, R. 2015c. Analytical Gains of Geopolitical Economy . Volume 30B of Research in Political Economy . Bingley: Emerald.

[15] Desai, R. Forthcoming. “The Value of History and the History of Value.” In The Great Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-Created? edited by T. Subasat. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

[16] Hamilton, C. 1986. Capitalist Industrialization in Korea . Boulder: Westview Press.

[17] Hirst, P. Q., G. Thompson, and S. Bromley. (1996) 2009. Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance . 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

[18] Krpec, O., and V. Hodulak. 2015. “Military Power and Trade Policy: Roots of Contemporary Geopolitical Economy.” In volume 30A of Research in Political Economy: Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy , edited by R. Desai, 205–34. Bingley: Emerald.

[19] Luttwak, E. 1990. “From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics.” The National Interest 20 (Summer): 17–23.

[20] Marx, K. (1848) 1976. “Speech on the Question of Free Trade Delivered to the Democratic Association of Brussels at Its Public Meeting of January 8, 1848.” In The Collected Works of Marx and Engels , vol. 6, edited by K. Marx and F. Engels, 450–65. New York: International Publishers.

[21] Marx, K. (1858) 1973. Grundrisse . London: Penguin.

[22] Serfati, Claude. 2015. “European Integration as Uneven and Combined Development.” In volume 30B of Research in Political Economy: Analytical Gains of Geopolitical Economy , edited by R. Desai, 259–97. Bingley: Emerald.

[23] Wade, R. 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

[24] Wade, R. 1996. “Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy Are Greatly Exaggerated.” In National Diversity and Global Capitalism , edited by R. Dore and S. Berger, 60–88. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

[25] Weiss, L. 1998. The Myth of the Powerless State . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

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