Global hegemony and the structural power of capital

Gill, Stephen; Law, David S.

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“…An undue emphasis on efficiency, at the expense of concerns with equity or power, is closely tied to the broader ideology of free trade and a neoliberal discourse promoting the benefits of privatization and globalization (Gill & Law, 1993).…”

Section: Conventional Perspectives On International Production and Mamentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Levy

2008

AMR

438

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This paper develops a critical framework on international management and production that draws from the literatures on global commodity chains and global production networks (GPNs), from institutional entrepreneurship, as well as from neo-Gramscian theory in international political economy. The framework views GPNs as integrated economic, political, and discursive systems, in which market and political power are intertwined. The framework highlights the contingent stability of GPNs as well as the potential for actors to engage politically in contestation and collaboration over system governance and the distribution of benefits. The framework offers a multidimensional and multi-level approach to understanding power relations, ideology, and value appropriation in GPNs. The framework is valuable for examining the intersection of GPNs with charged political and social issues such as sweatshops and incomes for coffee growers, and the role of geography as a source of stability and tension in these networks.2

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Section: Conventional Perspectives On International Production and Mamentioning

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Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Levy

2008

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“…In this respect, new constitutionalism and its focus on financial and trade openness have increased the structural power of transnational capital, inducing national governments to embrace neo-liberal-oriented policy regimes in order to thwart off potential investment strikes and/or capital flight. 6 In the ideational sphere, militant neo-liberalism has been succeeded by the seemingly more politically 'neutral' globalisation discourse, which pretends that states have lost a considerable deal of their actual sovereignty and that for nations there is no alternative to adjusting to the exigencies of internationally mobile investors. It is through the globalisation discourse that neo-liberalism has succeeded in colonising Christian-and socialdemocracy as well, of which Tony Blair's 'Third Way' and Gerhard Schröder's 'Neue Mitte' are well-known articulations.…”

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Neo-liberalism at a Time of Crisis: the Case of Taxation

Lesage¹,

Vermeiren²

2011

European Review

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This essay explores how the global financial crisis of [2008][2009] has affected the stability of what Stephen Gill has termed the 'new constitutionalism of disciplinary neo-liberalism', 1 more precisely, in the realm of international tax policy. Rather than providing an in-depth and complete empirical study of the matter, this essay will highlight certain interesting developments and touch upon a series of possibly relevant questions that could form the basis for a future research agenda. In the first section, we will examine the remarkable strength and resilience of the new constitutionalism as the institutional component of neo-liberal hegemony. Then we will proceed to an exploration of the impact of the crisis on this hegemony, also paying attention to deepening geopolitical multipolarity as an additional variable. The final, more empirical section will investigate the case of international taxation in this context, and demonstrate that new constitutionalism remains a crucial supporting pillar of neo-liberal globalisation.

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“…62 Given the explicit concern of Gramscian IR to connect micropolitical processes to wider arenas of structural power an attempt to mesh these theories is a theoretical bridge too far. 63 Within the field of STS Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology represents the clearest and most sustained attempt to trace the micropolitical construction of technological systems and artefacts while remaining cognisant of the need to place these practices within a wider structural framework. In response to the challenge Latour and SCOT have placed to 'reified' structuralist theory, Feenberg has argued for the retention of these structural considerations within any global theory, while remaining sensitive to local practices.…”

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The meaning of materiality: reconsidering the materialism of Gramscian IR

McCarthy¹

2010

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Gramsican approaches in International Relations (IR) have sought to outline the relationship between ideas and material forces in the construction of world order. Scholars working within this broad school have sought to emphasise that ideas are material forces, and must be considered as concrete historical structures (Cox, 1987) central to the establishment of particular historical and hegemonic blocs. This literature has primarily focused on the discursive construction of hegemony by international elites and the impact this has on political practices. While these insights are important in understanding the construction of world order, it is necessary to extend them to include the creation of actual physical structures – that is, it is vital to link the ideational aspects of hegemony with actual material processes. I will argue that a consideration of the role of technology provides an ideal vehicle for this process, building on the preliminary work of Bieler and Morton in this regard (2008). Technological structures are the product of particular cultural values and embed these cultural values within their very structure. Physical material factors thereby express ideational values constructed by specific social forces. Social practices are thus not only a function of the dominance of certain ideological formations, but also the product of the material environment itself and the manner in which the human metabolism with nature must function through these physical constructions.

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Global hegemony and the structural power of capital

Cited by 154 publications

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Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Political Contestation in Global Production Networks

Neo-liberalism at a Time of Crisis: the Case of Taxation

The meaning of materiality: reconsidering the materialism of Gramscian IR

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