Globalization in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Alan Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Hamilton College, USA and Leila Simona Talani, Chair in International Political Economy, European and International Studies Department, King’s College London, UK

‘This empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated volume reveals afresh how rich and rewarding are the intellectual resources of critical political economy for making sense of global capitalism, its historical evolution and its deepening tensions. Bringing together leading international scholars, it is wide-ranging in its coverage of political economy and security themes, exploring in compelling fashion the sharpening contradictions within the multiple overlapping global crises. The dynamics of both globalisation and deglobalisation it focuses on generate new fragilities, instabilities and political struggles.

• ContentsIntroduction: globalization and de-globalization in a turbulent era 1Leila Simona Talani and Alan Cafruny1 Concepts of crisis in a turbulent era: world order hypotheses,scenarios, and questions 5Stephen Gill2 Globalisation, Islamisation and terrorism in a turbulent era 22Leila Simona Talani3 Background to polycrisis: origins of the Chinese ascendancy 38Vassilis K. Fouskas4 National (in-)security strategy and critical minerals: coerciveeconomic statecraft beyond globalisation 56Ksenia Kirkham5 State interventionism at a time of global chaos: somereflections on the logic of post-neoliberal statecraft 77Paolo Gerbaudo6 Europe’s existential crisis 92Alan Cafruny7 Resistance in times of polycrisis 110Andreas Bieler8 Ringfencing globalization: US structural power, techno-nationalism, and Chinese dependent integration 126Sean Kenji Starrs9 The end of the Nordic balance 148Magnus Ryner