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A NEW GLOBAL GEOMETRY? SOCIALIST REGISTER 2024
- Author: Edited by Greg Albo
- Publisher: Merlin Press
- Isbn: 9780850367850
- Binding: Paperback
- Pub. Date: 2024-02
- Price: £20.00
In October 2022, President Joe Biden launched the United States’ new National Security Strategy, which warned that the world was at an ‘inflection point’, in which the ‘post-Cold War era is definitively over, and a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next’. American leadership, the document declared, would be more necessary than ever in order to define ‘the future of the international order‘ by marshalling America’s unparalleled economic, military and diplomatic resources to confront geopolitical rivals. While it is clearly premature to speak of the end of the liberal economic order, let alone the development of a multipolar international system, the erosion of American primacy means it is not too early to take stock of the momentous changes making a new global geometry.
ContentsJerome Klassen: Liberals to the rescue? Team Biden and the US empire
Ingo Schmidt
US Capitalism: too big to fail, too weak to lead
John Bellamy Foster
The US quest for nuclear supremacy: the counterforce doctrine and the ideology of moral asymmetry
Andreas Bieler, Adam David Morton
Reframing the geopolitics of global capitalism
Tanner Mirrlees
The US and China’s digital tech war: a new rivalry within and beyond the US empire?
Achin Vanaik
Continuity and change in India’s foreign policy: realpolitik, Hindu nationalism, and Modi
Ken C. Kawashima
Japan’s ‘new pre-war’: five dislocations of its historical development
Thomas Sablowski
Germany in the new capitalist geometry
Alan Cafruny, Vassilis K. Fouskas
Europe, the world economy, and new imperial grossraums
Eren Duzgun, Can Cemgil
Class, state, and geopolitics: explaining Erdoğan’s Turkey
Claudio Katz
The new geopolitical scene in Latin America
Lindsey German
Fighting for peace, preparing for war: the British antiwar movement
James Meadway
‘The first crisis of the Anthropocene’: the world economy since Covid
Birgit Mahnkopf
From Globalization to geopolitics: a way back, not forward
Carlos Taibo
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