Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

This book discusses the nature of the new global capitalism.

William I. Robinson (Author)

9781107691117, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 July 2014

258 pages
22.6 x 15 x 2 cm, 0.34 kg

'Those readers who are searching for an explanation of the recent electoral results in places as dissimilar as Austria and the Philippines, not to mention the ongoing U.S. primary presidential contest, will surely find this book captivating. … Readers trying to make sense of local and national political, economic, and military developments anywhere in our planet will [also] benefit from the global capitalism framework presented in this book.' Aldo Caliari, Academic Council on the United Nations System (www.acuns.org)

This exciting new study provides an original and provocative exposé of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control. Robinson concludes with an exploration of how diverse social and political forces are responding to the crisis and alternative scenarios for the future.

1. Global capital and global labor
2. Notes on transnational state apparatuses
3. Beyond the theory of imperialism
4. The 'Great Recession': financial speculation and militarized accumulation
5. Policing global capitalism
6. Interregnum: a new crisis of hegemony.

Subject Areas: Sociology [JHB]