Chains of Dependency: Changing Importation Practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2025)

The Global Uprising of Labour?: The Korean labour movement and neoliberal social corporatism

South-South Investments: Driver for Alternative Globalization? Examining China-Led Special Economic Zones in Brazil and South Africa

Critical Sociology , 2024

The formation of BRICS marks a significant aspect of 21st-century globalization. This has spurred optimism in the Global South about offering an alternative to Western dominance. China has aimed to expand its global presence and influence, framing its relations as 'South-South Cooperation'. Brazil and South Africa are crucial partners within BRICS, receiving significant Chinese investment, loans, and assistance. In this article, we critically examine South-South investments through a comparative analysis of Chinese investments in South Africa and Brazil, focusing on the case studies of the Manaus Industrial Park and the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone. Our research employs ethnographic fieldwork and secondary sources to analyze Chinese investments and their socio-environmental impact. We begin with a discussion of globalization and current trends of deglobalization by proposing three dimensions to analyze the role of BRICS. While Chinese investment could offer an alternative to Western financing, a more balanced South-South

Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies

2003

Abstract: The world(-)systems* perspective provides a useful framework for discerning the continuities and discontinuities (emergent properties) of long historical waves of global integration (globalization) and social resistance to (capitalist) globalization.. The capitalist world(-)system has experienced long cycles of economic and political integration for centuries and these have been interspersed by periods of social resistance to capitalist globalization, in which disadvantaged, exploited and dominated groups contest the hierarchies that global capitalism and hegemonic states have constructed. In the contemporary period the intensification of capitalist globalization has been accompanied by a strengthening of social resistance and the emergence of new social movements that resist neoliberal globalization and attempt to build alternatives. Careful study of these long waves of globalization and resistance can provide us with important insights that are relevant to the task of bu...

Clearly diagnose the concepts and ideology of globalization, deglobalization and localization of growth, Market liberalization strategy versus economic pluralism strategy.

Clearly diagnose the concepts and ideology of globalization, deglobalization and localization of growth, Market liberalization strategy versus economic pluralism strategy., 2018

Name: CHIER AKUENY ANYITHIEC: 18/BSU/MSECM/004 Works to do: Globalization, growth and Inequality are very essential components to give attention if proper address to economic development is to be realized. Clearly diagnose the concepts and ideology of globalization, deglobalization and localization of growth, Market liberalization strategy versus economic pluralism strategy.

UC Riverside Other Recent Work Title Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies Publication Date

2003

The world(-)systems* perspective provides a useful framework for discerning the continuities and discontinuities (emergent properties) of long historical waves of global integration (globalization) and social resistance to (capitalist) globalization.. The capitalist world(-)system has experienced long cycles of economic and political integration for centuries and these have been interspersed by periods of social resistance to capitalist globalization, in which disadvantaged, exploited and dominated groups contest the hierarchies that global capitalism and hegemonic states have constructed. In the contemporary period the intensification of capitalist globalization has been accompanied by a strengthening of social resistance and the emergence of new social movements that resist neoliberal globalization and attempt to build alternatives. Careful study of these long waves of globalization and resistance can provide us with important insights that are relevant to the task of building a more humane and democratic global commonwealth in the 21 st century. Research and teaching on the role of the new social movements and the historical dialectic between globalization, resistance, and democratization should be a central aspect of the new critical Global(ization) Studies.

Globalization’s Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms

Global Labour Journal, 2009

Globalization's impact on workers worldwide is contested. The nature of labour's responses is similarly contested. To a significant degree this contestation arises because of different conceptualizations of 'globalization'. I distinguish between three paradigms of globalization: neoclassical liberalism, anti-neoliberal globalism and multi-centred statism. I analyze each paradigm in terms of their identification of globalization's problematic for labour and the responses from labour that they suggest. The positions of China and India in these problematics and responses are discussed.

Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post)globalization

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2024

Technologically advanced states and large emerging economies increasingly use foreign investment screening mechanisms (FISM) to block inward foreign investment targeting sectors considered critical. Is the proliferation of FISM auguring an era of deglobalization, a re-assertion of national-state sovereignty over globalized economic ties, and the end of neoliberal orthodoxies of liberalized investment regimes? To answer these questions, the article draws upon geographic political economy and legal geographies. It argues that the multiplication of FISM is a response to a strategic context defined by three macrogeographic trends: (1) contemporary industrial restructuring and the salience of intellectual property-based monopolies; (2) a historic episode of centralization of capital driven by strategic mergers and acquisitions; and (3) evolving landscapes of state capitalism under conditions of intensified geoeconomic competition. Although FISM reproduce the fiction of state power as expressing the will of the sovereign nation to defend itself against foreign interference, market distortion, and technology theft, they consist of legally enshrining state authority to support national champions, and making sure they engage favorably with competitive dynamics of capital centralization, notably by conserving their monopoly over key intangible assets and strategic resources. FISM are best seen as tools that explicitly mobilize state power and coercion to aggressively (re)negotiate globalization.

The Cold War 2.0 fallacy: exploratory study of the diplomatic and commercial relations amongst China and the US

International Postdoctoral Program (IPP) / CEBRAP 15th December 2022, 2022

The present article assesses the Cold War 2.0 concept applied to the US-China relations. Our main argument is that the cold war analogy is a bad metaphor to analyze current impasses in the capitalistic world-system. In order to demonstrate that, a historical reconstruction of Sino-American diplomatic patterns was built. Also, trade data was used to characterize commercial relations between both countries and other regions. Besides the increasing political animosities growing in the last decade, what mainly characterizes the economic relations amongst China and US is a strong commercial integration with unequal trade patterns. Such strong commercial integration is a different scenario than that shown in the US-USSR relations during the Cold War Era. Current Sino-American relations were built upon 50 years of diplomatic approximation since Mao-Nixon encounter, named “Ping Pong” diplomacy, going through rough times after Tiananmen incidents, many Taiwan Strait crises and the bombardment of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. After the incorporation of China in the capitalistic World-economy, mainly after its acceptance in the WTO, China rose to an economic superpower status with subsequent trade surplus with the US and other Western regions.

Domestic structures, foreign economic policies and global economic order: Implications from the rise of large emerging economies

European Journal of International Relations, 2014

The rise of the large emerging economies of Brazil, India and China can easily be counted among the most important contemporary structural changes in the global political economy. This article attempts to determine whether these countries have a common institutional model for governing their economies and addresses the implications of these commonalities for global economic institutions. The approach consists of three major steps: first, a general ideal type for encompassing capitalism in these large emerging economies is constructed, and dubbed ‘state-permeated market economy’; second, we compare these countries empirically, with regard to the features highlighted by the ideal type and in contrast to other varieties of capitalism; and, finally, we extrapolate some long-term implications for the global economic order, based on the assumption that foreign economic policies will be informed by domestic institutional structures. Based on these three steps, we conclude that a further de...

Social Structures of Accumulation Theory and Varieties of Capitalism: Long-run Capitalist Accumulation vs. Comparative Institutional Analysis

This paper is a draft version of the theoretical elaboration for a comparative analysis of social structures of accumulation (SSA) developed out of a critical engagement with the tradition of SSA theory and the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) approach. The discussion is drawn out of the manuscript on the rise of transnational capitalism in the postsocialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Comments are welcome.