Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Economic ImperialismBy Zak Cope and Immanuel NessPART ONE. THEORY2. Imperialism and Its Critics: A Brief ConspectusBy Zak Cope3. Classical Marxist Imperialism Theory: Continuity, Change, and RelevanceBy Murray Leigh Noonan4. Marxist Theories of Imperialism in the Post-Cold War EraBy Efe Can Gürcan5. Theories of International Trade and Economic ImperialismBy Bill Dunn6. Capitalism, Imperialism, and CrisesBy Shireen Moosvi7. The Clash of Interpretations: World-Systems Analysis and International Relations TheoryBy Chamsy El-Ojelli and Patrick HaydenPART TWO. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY8. Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Late Capitalism: Capital, Ideology, and Making the World MarketBy Toby Carroll9. Imperialism from the Eleventh Century to the Twenty-First CenturyBy Amiya Kumar Bagchi10. Slavery, Capitalism, and ImperialismBy Sébastien Rioux11. Development, Underdevelopment, and the North-South DivideBy Kunibert Raffer12. Global Value Chains and Global Value TransferBy Susan Newman13. International Exploitation, Capital Export, and Unequal ExchangeBy Jonathan F. Cogliano, Soh Kaneko, Roberto Veneziani, and Naoki Yoshihara14. Imperialism, Unequal Exchange, and Labour ExportBy Raúl Delgado Wise15. Surplus Labour: Imperialist Legacies and Post-Imperialist PracticesBy Christoph Scherrer16. Locating Agrarian Labour within the Contours of Imperialism: A Historical ReviewBy Arindam Banerjee17. Women, Domestic Labor, and Economic ImperialismBy Han Cheng18. Protecting Water and Forest Resources Against Colonization in the Indigenous AméricasBy Macarena Gómez-Barris19. Imperialism, the Mismeasurement of Poverty, and the Masking of Global ExploitationBy Seth Donnelly20. Tertiarisation, Financialisation, and Economic ImperialismBy Kalle Blomberg21. The Hegemony of the Global Exploitation of Humans and Nature: The Imperial Mode of LivingBy Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen22. The Political Economy of MilitarismBy Adem Yavuz ElverenPART THREE. WORLD REGIONS23. South Asian Economies in Two Imperialist Regimes Between 1950 and 2020By Vamsi Vakulabharanam24. Power Competition and Exploitation in Southeast AsiaBy Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt25. The Capitalist World System and Economic Imperialism in East AsiaBy Minqi Li26. Pacific Islands: Sources of Raw MaterialsBy Marta Gentilucci27. Extractivism and Resistance in North AfricaBy Hamza Hamouchene28. Railway Imperialisms in East Africa: Laying the Tracks for ExploitationBy Tim Zajontz29. Southern Africa: A New Geometry of ImperialismBy Ricado Jacobs and William G. Martin30. Asymmetric Interdependence: North America's Political EconomyBy Julián Castro-Rea31. Colombia and OECD: How Institutional Imperialism Shapes the Global Order and National DevelopmentBy Brayan Camilo Rojas and Ernesto Vivares32. Eastern Europe's Post-Transitional Integration into Western Economic Relations Through Social Labour RecognitionBy Ivan Rubinic and Maks Tajnikar33. Land Grabbing in Southeastern Europe in Historical ContextBy Nazif Mandaci34. Colonial Legacies and Global Networks in Central Asia and the CaucasusBy Brent D. Hierman
