Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations. Do countries engage in foreign intervention and just war because they feel a responsibility toward the international community? Or
are these actions rationalizations for the pursuit of commercial, industrial, financial, and military interests? Around the world, economies, cultures, politics, laws, and nation-states are profoundly shaped by imperialism, both historical and contemporary.
Including thirty-four chapters written by academics and experts in the field of international political economy, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical, and historical accounts of economic imperialism from the early modern age to the present. Over
the course of three sections, the Handbook looks at the theory and concepts behind the study of imperialism, the international political economy of imperialism, and imperialism in various regions of the world today. In so doing, the Handbook demonstrates the persistence of economic imperialism in
today's postcolonial world, and the enduring control wielded by great powers even after the end of formal empire. Moreover, the Handbook reveals how emerging powers are expanding economic control in new geographic and geopolitical contexts, and highlights the significance of economic imperialism in
the structures, relations, processes, and ideas that sustain poverty and conflict worldwide.
Author(s): Zak Cope (editor); Immanuel Ness (editor)
Edition: updf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 697
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The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism
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Contents
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1. Introduction: Economic Imperialism in Theory and in Practice
PART ONE: THEORY
2. Imperialism and Its Critics: A Brief Conspectus
3. Classical Marxist Imperialism Theory: Continuity, Change, and Relevance
4. Marxist Theories of Imperialism in the Post–Cold War Era
5. Theories of International Trade and Economic Imperialism
6. Capitalism, Imperialism, and Crises
7. The Clash of Interpretations: World-Systems Analysis and International Relations Theory
PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
8. Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Late Capitalism: Capital, Ideology, and Making the World Market
9. Imperialism from the Eleventh Century to the Twenty-First Century
10. Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism
11. Development, Underdevelopment, and the North–South Divide
12. Global Value Chains and Global Value Transfer
13. International Exploitation, Capital Export, and Unequal Exchange
14. Imperialism, Unequal Exchange, and Labour Export
15. Surplus Labour: Imperialist Legacies and Post-Imperialist Practices
16. Locating Agrarian Labour within the Contours of Imperialism: A Historical Review
17. Women, Domestic Labour, and Economic Imperialism
18. Protecting Water and Forest Resources against Colonization in the Indigenous Américas
19. Imperialism, the Mismeasurement of Poverty, and the Masking of Global Exploitation
20. Tertiarization, Financialization, and Economic Imperialism
21. The Hegemony of the Global Exploitation of Humans and Nature: The Imperial Mode of Living
22. The Political Economy of Militarism
PART THREE: WORLD REGIONS
23. South Asian Economies in Two Imperialist Regimes between 1950 and 2020
24. Power Competition and Exploitation in Southeast Asia
25. The Capitalist World System and Economic Imperialism in East Asia
26. Pacific Islands: Sources of Raw Materials
27. Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa
28. Railway Imperialisms in East Africa: Laying the Tracks for Exploitation
29. Southern Africa: A New Geometry of Imperialism
30. Asymmetric Interdependence: North America’s Political Economy
31. Colombia and OECD: How Institutional Imperialism Shapes the Global Order and National Development
32. Eastern Europe’s Post-Transitional Integration into Western Economic Relations through Social Labour Recognition
33. Land Grabbing in Southeastern Europe in Historical Context
34. Colonial Legacies and Global Networks in Central Asia and the Caucasus
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