Old Ideas for New Times: Radical History in International Political Economy
In: Perspectives on Global Development and TechnologySearch for other papers by Gregory P. Williams in
Current site
Google Scholar
Abstract
This article suggests that the field of international political economy (IPE) would benefit from greater engagement with radicalism. Radical political economy (RPE) continues to be a relevant counterweight to moderate forms of IPE. Radicalism is portrayed in this work as a vision of history, distinct from static and evolutionary interpretations of the past. And, like their moderate counterparts, radicals are divided as to what will happen in the twenty-first century. Some scholars believe that the capitalist nation-state system will stabilize, while others predict it will transform into some type of post-capitalist and post-national system. By pairing visions of history with expectations for the future, this article offers a typology of six distinct world-historical opinions. It concludes that radicals offer an important alternative perspective to the writings of moderates and yet, in being split about the future, are remarkably similar to others wrestling with questions of transformation.
Purchase
Buy instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):
Institutional Login
Log in with Open Athens, Shibboleth, or your institutional credentials
Personal login
Log in with your brill.com account
-
Amin, Samir. 2013. “Audacity, More Audacity.” Review of Radical Political Economics 45(3):400-409.
-
Anderson, Perry. 1974a. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. London: Verso.
-
Anderson, Perry. 1974b. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso.
-
Anderson, Perry. 1976. Considerations on Western Marxism. London: Verso.
-
Anderson, Perry. 1980. Arguments Within English Marxism. London: Verso.
-
Anderson, Perry. 1992. A Zone of Engagement. London: Verso.
-
Anderson, Perry. 2000. “Renewals.” New Left Review II/1:5-24.
-
Anderson, Perry. 2005. Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas. London: Verso.
-
Anderson, Perry. 2015. American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers. London: Verso.
-
Badiou, Alain. 2015. The Communist Hypothesis. Translated by David Macey and Steve Corcoran. London: Verso.
-
Best, Jacqueline and Matthew Paterson (Eds). 2010. Cultural Political Economy. London: Routledge.
-
Bloch, Marc. [1942]1953. The Historian’s Craft. Translated by Peter Putnam. New York: Vintage.
-
Brenner, Robert. 1977. “The Origins of Capitalist Development: a Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism.” New Left Review I/104:25-92.
-
Brown, Wendy. 2015. Undoing the Demos. New York: Zone.
-
Cafruny, Alan, Leila Simona Talani, and Gonzalo Pozo Martin (Eds). 2016. The Palgrave Handbook of Critical International Political Economy. London: Palgrave.
-
Callinicos, Alex. 2008. “Whither Anglo-Saxon Marxism?” Pp. 79-94 in Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism. Edited by Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis. Leiden: Brill.
-
Carroll, William. 2015. “Robust Radicalism.” Review of Radical Political Economics 47(4):663-668.
-
Cohen, Benjamin J. 2008. International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
-
DeBenedetti, Charles. 1990. An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
-
Derluguian, Georgi M. 2005. Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
-
Fink, Leon. 2015. The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
-
Fukuyama, Francis. 1992. The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Avon.
-
Gilpin, Robert. 1981. War and Change in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Harvey, David. 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-
Hobson, J.A. [1902]1965. Imperialism. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
-
Ikenberry, G. John. 2006. Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition. Cambridge: Polity.
-
Jameson, Fredric. 2003. “Future City.” New Left Review II/21:65-79.
-
Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye. 2001. Power and Interdependence, 3rd Edition. New York: Longman.
-
Kissinger, Henry. 2014. World Order. New York: Penguin.
-
Krasner, Stephen D. 1976. “State Power and the Structure of International Trade.” World Politics 28(3):317-347.
-
Lee, Richard E. (Ed). 2010. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge I: Determinism. Albany: SUNY Press.
-
Lenin, Vladimir. [1917]1975. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
-
Loewenstein, Antony. 2015. Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe. London: Verso.
-
Mandel, Ernest. 1975. Late Capitalism. Translated by Joris De Bres. London: Verso.
-
Modelski, George. 1987. Long Cycles in World Politics. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
-
Murphy, Craig N. 2009. “Do the Left-Out Matter?” New Political Economy 14(3):357-365.
-
Murphy, Craig N. and Douglas R. Nelson. 2001. “International political economy: a tale of two heterodoxies.” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 3(3):393-412.
-
Nietzsche, Friedrich. [1874]1980. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life. Translated by Peter Preuss. Indianapolis: Hackett.
-
Osiander, Andreas. 2001. “Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth.” International Organization 55(2):251-287.
-
Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
-
Prashad, Vijay. 2012. The Poorer Nations. London: Verso.
-
Prigogine, Ilya. 1996. “The Laws of Chaos.” Translated by Richard Lee. Review 19(1):1-9.
-
Prigogine, Ilya. 1997. The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. New York: The Free Press.
-
Prigogine, Ilya. 2000. “The Networked Society.” Journal of World-Systems Research 6(1):892-898.
-
Sherman, Howard. 2011. “Radical Economists in the 21st Century.” Review of Radical Political Economics 43(3):348-353.
-
Skocpol, Theda and Margaret Somers. 1980. “The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22(2):174-197.
-
Smith, Steve. 2008. “Six Wishes for a More Relevant Discipline of International Relations.” Pp. 725-732 in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-
So, Alvin Y. 1990. Social Change and Development. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
-
Stiglitz, Joseph. 2016. The Euro. New York: W.W. Norton.
-
Strange, Susan. 1996. The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Strange, Susan. 1999. “The Westfailure System.” Review of International Studies 25(3):345-354.
-
Streeck, Wolfgang. 2017. “The Return of the Repressed.” New Left Review II/104:5-18.
-
Wæver, Ole. 1996. “The rise and fall of the inter-paradigm debate.” Pp. 149-185 in International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. Edited by Steve Smith, Ken Booth, and Marysia Zalewski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 16(4):387-415.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1984. “Long Waves as Capitalist Process.” Review 7(4):559-575.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1998. Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the 21st Century. New York: The New Press.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2003. The Decline of American Power. New York: The New Press.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. The Uncertainties of Knowledge. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2005. “After Developmentalism and Globalization, What?” Social Forces 83(3):1263-1278.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2011. “Structural Crisis in the World-System: Where Do We Go from Here?” Monthly Review 62(10): 31-39.
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2013. “End of the Road for Runaway Factories?” Commentary no. 351 (15 April). (http://iwallerstein.com/road-runaway-factories/).
-
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2014. “Antisystemic Movements, Yesterday and Today.” Journal of World-Systems Research 20(2):158-172.
-
Waltz, Kenneth. 1979. Theory of International Politics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
-
Waltz, Kenneth. 2000. “Structural Realism after the Cold War.” International Security 25(1):5-41.
-
Williams, Gregory P. 2013. “Retrospective on the Origins of World-Systems Analysis: Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein.” Journal of World-Systems Research 19(2):202-210.
-
Williams, Gregory P. 2015. “Pioneers of Radical Political Economy: The Growth in Thinking of Immanuel Wallerstein and Perry Anderson.” PhD dissertation. University of Connecticut.
-
Wohlforth, William C. 2008. “Realism.” Pp. 131-149 in The Oxford Handbook of International Relations. Edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 131-149.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 467 | 56 | 3 |
| Full Text Views | 95 | 2 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 21 | 3 | 0 |
Old Ideas for New Times: Radical History in International Political Economy
In: Perspectives on Global Development and TechnologySearch for other papers by Gregory P. Williams in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
This article suggests that the field of international political economy (IPE) would benefit from greater engagement with radicalism. Radical political economy (RPE) continues to be a relevant counterweight to moderate forms of IPE. Radicalism is portrayed in this work as a vision of history, distinct from static and evolutionary interpretations of the past. And, like their moderate counterparts, radicals are divided as to what will happen in the twenty-first century. Some scholars believe that the capitalist nation-state system will stabilize, while others predict it will transform into some type of post-capitalist and post-national system. By pairing visions of history with expectations for the future, this article offers a typology of six distinct world-historical opinions. It concludes that radicals offer an important alternative perspective to the writings of moderates and yet, in being split about the future, are remarkably similar to others wrestling with questions of transformation.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 467 | 56 | 3 |
| Full Text Views | 95 | 2 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 21 | 3 | 0 |