Alex Callinicos. Imperialism and Global Political Economy.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: EMPIRE OF THEORY, THEORIES OF EMPIRE

1 – Marxism and imperialism

2 – The need for theory

3 – Imperialism and global political economy today

Part I

THEORY

1 – THE CLASSICAL LEGACY

1.1 – Continuing Marx’s Capital

1.2 – Luxemburg’s fertile diversion

1.3 – The Lenin-Bukharin synthesis

1.4 – Organized capitalism and economic crises

1.5 – Spectres of ultra-imperialism

2 – CAPITALISM AND THE STATE SYSTEM

2.1 – Rethinking the theory of imperialism

2.2 – Conceptualizing the state system

2.3 – Interests and ideologies

Part II

HISTORY

3 – CAPITALISM AND LA LONGUE DURÉE

3.1 – What is capitalism?

3.2 – Markets and empires

3.3 – The sinews of capitalist power

4 – AGES OF IMPERIALISM

4.1 – Periodizing imperialism

4.2 – Classical imperialism (1870–1945)

4.3 – Superpower imperialism (1945–1991)

5 – IMPERIALISM AND GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY TODAY

5.1 – The specificity of American imperialism

5.2 – Global capitalism at the Pillars of Hercules?