Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     x
Preface to the First Edition     xiv
Preface to the Second Edition     xix
Reading Gramsci     xx
The universal contradiction     xxiii
A Word on the Structure of the Book     xxvi
Personal, Political and Intellectual Influences     1
Politics in the classroom and the politics of class     2
A sociological perspective on world order     5
Disciplinary neo-liberalism and the end of history     8
Social and International Theory     11
Epistemology, Ontology and the Critique of Political Economy     15
Epistemology and politics     15
Differences between Gramscian and positivist approaches     17
The critique of political economy: four arguments     20
Beyond vulgar Marxism and the orthodox discourses     38
Transnational Historical Materialism and World Order     42
The limits of the possible     43
The emergence of modern world orders     47
Twentieth-century world order: between hegemony and passive revolution     58
Twenty-first century world order: dialectic between the old and radically new     64
Hegemony, Culture and Imperialism     67
Cultural resistanceafter the Chilean coup, 1973     68
The Chilean question and global politics     70
The Political Economy of World Order     73
US Hegemony in the 1980s: Limits and Prospects     80
Theories of hegemonic decline and the conventional wisdom     81
A critique of the conventional wisdom     85
Decline or continuity?     89
US hegemony and transnational capitalism     91
Towards a more liberal and transnational hegemony     96
The Power of Capital: Direct and Structural     100
Historic blocs and social structures of accumulation     100
States, markets and the power of capital     103
The direct power of capital     107
The structural power of capital     109
The power of capital: limits and contradictions     116
Globalization, Market Civilization and Disciplinary Neo-Liberalism     123
Introduction     124
Analyzing power and knowledge in the global political economy     127
The meaning of 'globalization'     130
'Disciplinary' neo-liberalism     137
New constitutionalism and global governance     138
Panopticism and the coercive face of the neo-liberal state     142
Neo-liberal contradictions and the movement of history     145
The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis     150
Crisis, danger and opportunity     151
The 'usual suspects' and the imposition of neo-liberalism     152
Mystification and the East Asian model     154
The restructuring of East Asia and the new geopolitics of capital     155
Conclusion     159
Law, Justice and New Constitutionalism     161
Introduction     161
Property rights, contracts and the liberal rule of law     163
Dimensions of new constitutionalism     169
Conclusion     175
Global Transformation and Political Agency     177
Globalizing Elites in the Emerging World Order     183
Global disintegration-integration     183
Perspectives, classes and elites     192
Globalizing elites and social stratification     193
Globalism, territorialism and the United States     197
Concluding reflections     203
Surveillance Power in Global Capitalism     206
Panoptic power     208
American informational capitalism and world power     213
Expanded reproduction of capital and social order     216
Production and social reproduction      221
US social order/disorder: enclavisation and incarceration     223
Homeland security     225
'Future image architecture': monitoring enemies and friends     227
Conclusion     232
The Post-modern Prince     237
Why the WTO talks failed?     238
The contradictions of neo-liberal globalization and the Seattle protests     240
Towards a post-modern Prince?     244
Alternatives, Real and Imagined     249
Alternative concepts of global leadership     250
Global relations of force and changing conditions of existence     253
Global alternatives: dominant, progressive and reactionary     256
Latin America and Brazil: limits and possibilities     261
Imagining the future of the progressive movements: six propositions     265
Bibliography     270
Index     279