The actuality of imperialism

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 319-326

  Callinicos, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0043040037     PISSN: 03058298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/03058298020310020601     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
2. See Alex Callinicos, 'Marxism and Global Governance', in Governing Globalization, eds. David Held and Andrew McGrew(Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).
3. See the now standard account of political globalisation in David Held, Andrew McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999).
4. Hardt and Negri, Empire, 413.
5. For the authors' most detailed analysis of the anti-globalisation movement, see Michael Hardt, 'Today's Bandung?', New Left Review 2, no. 14 (2002): 112-18.
6. See Antonio Negri, Marx before Marx (South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1984).
7. An excellent study on the development of Italian autonomist Marxism - to which Negri was a major contributor in the 1960s and 1970s - can be found in Steve Wright, Storming Heaven (London: Pluto Press, 2002).
8. These criticisms are amplified in Alex Callinicos, Toni Negri in Perspective', International Socialism 2, no. 92 (2001): 33-61.
9. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31, no. 1 (2002): 123-26.
10. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Ibid., 124.
11. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Ibid., 111.
12. Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey, Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Ibid., 112-13.
13. See Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (London: Verso, 1993).
14. Michael Mann, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, vol. 1 of The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 13, 17
15. and, more generally, the Chapter 'Societies as Organized Power Networks', 1-33.
16. See especially, Luc Boltanski and Eve Chapiello, Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme (Paris: Gallimard, 1999).
17. Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts (London: Verso, 2001), 9, 11.
18. Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital, trans. Agnes Schwarzschield (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951).
19. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial', 110.
20. See especially, Nikolai I. Bukharin, Imperialism and World Economy (London: Merlin, 1972).
21. Hardt and Negri, Empire, 9.
22. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial', 125.
23. Hardt and Negri, Empire, 190.
24. This kind of formulation does seem to have the apologetic implications against which Barkawi and Laffey rightly warn: if power is everywhere and nowhere, then we no longer need to worry about interstate antagonisms such as those that threaten South Asia with nuclear war. See Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial', 125-26.
25. Antonio Negri, 'Ruptures dans l'empire, puissance de l'exode', Multitudes no. 7, 27 October 2001 [available from http://multitudes.samizdat.net/] (10 August 2002).
26. Barkawi and Laffey, 'Retrieving the Imperial', 124-25.
27. Bob Rowthorn, 'Imperialism in the 1970s: Unity or Rivalry?', New Left Review, no. 69 (1971): 31-32.
28. For further discussion of these debates, see Callinicos, 'Marxism and Global Governance'.
29. Peter Gowan, The Global Gamble: Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance (London: Verso, 1999).
30. Gilbert Achcar, 'The Strategic Triad', and 'Rasputin Plays at Chess', in Masters of the Universe? NATO's Balkan Crusade, cd. Tariq Ali (London: Verso, 2000)
31. and John Rees, 'Imperialism: Globalization, the State, and War', International Socialism 2, no. 93 (2001) [http://www.isj1text.ble.org.uk/pubs/ isj93/rees.htm] (11 August 2002).
32. Samuel Huntington, 'The Lonely Superpower', Foreign Affairs 78, no. 2 (1999): 35-49.
33. See Robert O. Keohane, 'The Public Delegitimization of Terrorism and Coalitional Polities', in Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order, eds. Ken Booth and Tim Dunne (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002).
34. The WTO is a partial exception to this pattern insofar as decisions are taken on the basis of consensus in which every member state has a notionally equal say. It is clear, however, that its effective processes are governed by the same inequalities of power as the other institutions.
35. Justin Rosenberg, The Empire of Civil Society (London: Verso, 1994).
36. Kenneth N. Waltz, 'The Continuity of International Politics', in Worlds in Collision, 350, 351, 352.
37. For further discussion of these issues, see Alex Callinicos, An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (Cambridge: Polity Press, forthcoming).