Engaging ‘Critical Globalization Studies’: Global Capitalism and the Twilight of Neo-Liberalism in Latin America

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Notes

1. For example, see W. I. Robinson, A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2004); W. I. Robinson, Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization (New York: Verso 2003).

2. R. Appelbaum and W. I. Robinson, Critical Globalization Studies (New York: Routledge 2005).

3. M. T. Berger, ‘Keeping the World Safe for Primary Colors: Area Studies, Development Studies, International Studies and the Vicissitudes of Nation-Building’, Globalizations 4/4 (Dec. 2007) pp. 429–444; M. T. Berger and H. Weber, ‘War, Peace and Progress: Conflict, Development, (In)Security and Violence in the 21^st Century’, Third World Quarterly 30/1 (2009).

4. M. T. Klare, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (New York: Henry Holt and Company 2008).

5. The debate about the TNS is not new and my discussion of the concept is therefore going to be relatively brief. See William I. Robinson, ‘Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of Transnational State’, Theory and Society 30/2 (2001) pp. 157–200; Philip McMichael, ‘Revisiting the Question of the Transnational State’, Theory and Society 30/2 (2001) pp. 201–210.

6. S. Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006); M. Van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999).

7. ‘Military Spending: Arming Up’, The Economist, 13 June 2009, p. 20.

8. C. Tilly, ‘Reflections on the History of European State Making’, in C. Tilly (ed.), Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1975).

9. B. D. Taylor and R. Botea, ‘Tilly Tally: War-Making and State-Making in the Contemporary Third World’, International Studies Review 10/1 (March 2008) pp. 28–29.

10. M. Lind, ‘America: The Conflagration's Likely Big Winner? The Arsonist Who Started the Fire’, Foreign Policy: Global Politics, Economics and Ideas (May/June 2009).