Theory Of Imperialism Research Articles

Looking Back, Looking Forward

LAP's first issue (Spring 1974) was dedicated to a reassessment of dependency theory. Browsing through it is a little bit like time travel; the world has changed so much since then that the terms of the debate seem quaint and naive. Twenty-five years ago, the center of theoretical and political debates was occupied by the determinants of underdevelopment and the political conditions for national economic development under socialism or, at least, for an autonomous capitalist development that would put the needs of a given nation-state first. Proponents of dependency theory and theories of imperialism variously theorized the dialectical interdependence between the development of the core and the underdevelopment of the periphery. While the theories varied, the actors were identifiable and, within limits, similar: powerful, dominant nation-states, capitalist classes, national bourgeoisies, multinational corporations, exploited colonial and neocolonial states, peasants, working classes, and so on. Through the years, LAP has documented the struggle for economic and political liberation in Latin America-its successes and its failures. But the balance of power between the struggling forces has changed, and the development of the productive forces has undermined the socialist bloc and produced a radical restructuring of the economic and political orders. The so-called New World Order or global economy that has emerged is a qualitative leap forward in the process of capitalist development, one that has brought the entire world under the sway of the world market and changed the material conditions for theorizing and political practice. Today capital rules unrestricted as the states crumble under its demands. While welfare-state policies still ameliorate the full effects of the world market in Western Europe, the United States, and a handful of other core countries, in the rest of the world states have given up any attempt to protect their citizens from its devastating effects. Capital knows no boundaries, political allegiances, or social responsibilities; it enjoys untrammeled mobility, causing financial crises and devastating millions of

Perspectives for LAP

For the past 25 years, LAP has been the site of numerous important debates, critiques, and proposals. Early on, we engaged in a multifaceted critique of modernization theory, a debate on the utility and limitations of dependency theory, and a reexamination of theories of imperialism. Out of this discussion emerged a complex analysis linking internal class struggle to imperial corporate and structures. Subsequently, major essays focusing on Cuba, Chile, and Nicaragua discussed the nature and process of the to socialism. The possibilities and limitations of electoral politics and mixed economies were analyzed, and extraparliamentary and democratic forms of collectivism emerged as sustainable options. Many of the debates and thematic issues reflected the changing realities in Latin America and the United States. From the mid-1970s onward, the intellectual focus shifted toward the U.S.-backed military coups, dictatorships, and human rights violations. In this context, LAP provided a critique of the prevailing orthodoxy, offering a deep structural analysis of the class nature and impact of the dictatorships. In the same vein, LAP identified the class composition of the human rights victims by locating violations in the broader context of the restoration of imperial hegemony and the ascendancy of a neoliberal capitalist class. In the 1980s, essays and special issues of LAP engaged in the debate on the transition to democracy. By focusing on the distinction between state and regime and pointing to the authoritarian continuities in the former as well as in the socioeconomic class system, LAP provided an alternative framework for understanding the continuity of the class and democratic struggle in the postmilitary period. In the most recent period, we have seen special issues on gender, ethnicity, and social identities where partisans of classless identity politics have been taken to task in a limited but effective fashion. In the latest issues, LAP has engaged in a critique of neoliberal and globalization doctrines. The critical focus is on the doctrines' impact and the

Traveling music: Following the path of music through the global market

Music in the twentieth century means, among other things, big business of mass communication that crosses global boundaries. Several theories address the possible effects of such global corporate influences on local culture. This essay reviews such theories and evaluates them in relation to popular music as a cultural product. Specifically, we review the history and structure of the popular music industry, examine applications of the cultural imperialism theory to popular music and the subsequent debate, and survey newer theories that developed as a result of the debate. These theories are then assembled and organized along a continuum to establish the progressive relationships between the numerous forms musical flow can assume. The resulting model is meant to be a heuristic so researchers can keep in mind that not all cultural exchanges are sinister. Factors that may help to mitigate the predictions posed by cultural imperialism theory in the global flow of music are also examined.

Beyond media globalization: A look at cultural integrity from a policy perspective

The development of satellite and computer technologies have allowed audiences around the world easier access to large volumes of foreign media content. But unlike what was anticipated, the homogenizing effect of media globalization has remained rather limited, and when it occurs, it often does with a particularizing effect by embracing differences in the audiences. Policy-wise, in contrast to the defensive measures many decision makers adopted when global and regional media made their first appearances, we have witnessed a change to a more pragmatic approach, especially in Asia, as more nations seek to export as well as import cultural products. The emphasis on “Asian values” and the waning desire of formulating a common culture in Europe are indications of the complexities involved in the integration and disintegration of cultures. What theories of cultural imperialism and post modernism failed to take into account, is that media, whether global, regional, national or local, are but one of the many factors involved in this process.

Dependency and Development in Latin America

The theory of imperialist capitalism, as is well known, has so far attained its most significant treatment in Lenin’s works. This is not only because Lenin attempts to explain transformations of the capitalist economies that occurrred during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, but is mainly because of the political and historical implications contained in his interpretations. In fact, the descriptive arguments of Lenin’s theory of imperialism were borrowed from Hobson’s analysis. Other writers had already presented evidence of the international expansion of the capitalist economies and nations. Nevertheless, Lenin, inspired by Marx’s views, was able to bring together evidence to the effect that economic expansion is meaningless if we do not take into consideration the political and historical aspects with which economic factors are intimately related. From Lenin’s perspective, imperialism is a new form of the capitalist mode of production. This new form cannot be considered a different mode of economic organization, insofar as capital accumulation based on private ownership of the means of production and exploitation of the labor force remain the basic features of the system. But its significance is that of a new stage of capitalism.

Globalization of Capital and the Theory of Imperialism

Globalization of Capital and the Theory of Imperialism

Towards a new liberal internationalism: the international theory of J.A. Hobson

This is a comprehensive analysis of J. A. Hobson's writings on international relations. Hobson is most famous for developing the neo-Marxist theory of imperialism, but in this book David Long argues that Hobson was also a key figure in the history of liberalism. He shifted liberal international theory away from its laissez-faire origins towards a focus on international organization, making him a forerunner of the functional approach in international relations. The book outlines the philosophical outlook and political economy which informed Hobson's theory, and challenges the narrow interpretation of imperialism which has dominated international relations. Setting out the sources of and contradictions within Hobson's proposals for international government, this book is a contribution not only to the study of international relations, but also to the history of political thought and British liberalism.

Managing Latin America: US power, North American knowledge and the cold war

Abstract Introduction: US Power, North American Knowledge and the Cold War There is now a substantial literature which seeks to situate the influential Latin American theories of development which emerged during the Cold War in their wider political and historical context. And there is a large number of articles which look at the North American historiography of Latin America and at the study of inter-American relations. Unlike most of these studies, however, this article focuses more directly on the relationship between US power in, and the production of a professional North American knowledge about, Latin America during the Cold War. Building on imperial state theory, recent international relations theory derived from Gramsci, and discourse theory, it emphasises the need to locate the emergence and subsequent consolidation of Latin American studies at the height of the Cold War, in the context of the rise of the historical and social science professions and the vicissitudes of US foreign policy in Latin America. A brief discussion of theories of imperialism and the role ofthe imperial state in the projection of US hegemony will be followed by a critical examination of the structures and discourses of North American social science generally and Latin American studies more specifically. The centrality ofliberalism to North American academic and political activity throughout the twentieth century will be addressed, and the discursive creation of Latin America, with particular reference to the period from 1945 to the early 1990s, will be examined. It will be argued that Latin American studies, as a set of professional discourses and practices which emerged in North America during the first half of the twentieth century, and was consolidated during the Cold War, has facilitated the creation and maintenance of the institutions, inter-state relations, politico-economic structures and technologies that underpin the US hegemonic position in the Americas. In short the professional study of Latin America has been instrumental to the wider US effort to manage the interAmerican system.

George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance. Bernard SemmelThe Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin. Bernard Semmel

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The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin.

The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin.

Global export of Hong Kong television: Television broadcasts limited

This study examines the business strategies of media exports by a dominant television company in Hong Kong. It is found that there are four strategies: co‐operative contract, joint venture, barter trade, and management consultancy. These strategies vary with the importing state's reactions as well as interactions between the media exporter and the importing state. The authors argue for a re‐examination of the two conventional approaches in the discussion of media imperialism, namely, the traditional theories of media imperialism and the free market approach. The new approach should emphasize the interactions among the media exporters, the state, and the audience.

The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin.

As Great Britain and other Western nations built empires - both formal and informal - writers on economic and social questions developed theories to explain why and how advanced industrial states exercised control over colonial regions. Different schools of thought emerged: some anticipated the growth of a cosmopolitan economic order, others believed in a brutal imperialism necessary for an expanding capitalism, still others saw evil pre-capitalist forces at work. In this book, Semmel traces the evolution of the ideas about imperialism and discusses four major schools of thought: the classical economists; the social theorists; the national economists; and the Marxists. From Adam Smith to Lenin, the subject of colonialism - and then imperialism - has remained controversial. Although classical economists offered visions of a prosperous world economy based on free trade, and liberal idealists argued that rational self-interest would eliminate aggressive mercantilism and wars of conquest, such utopian ideals proved elusive. Even defenders of capitalism noted contradictions between the harsh realities of the emerging industrial system and the optimistic economic theories that attempted to describe it. In the end, the critics - including liberal sociologists, national economists and Marxists - would win the day by defining imperialism in terms of historic demons: feudal aristocrats, medieval usurers and evil empires. These ideas, Semmel concludes, became props of the liberal, socialist and fascist ideologies of our time.

The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin

(1994). The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 44-44.

A Solidarist Social Economy: The Bruyn Perspective

(1994). A Solidarist Social Economy: The Bruyn Perspective. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 108-121.

Capitalism and the Third World: development, dependence and the world system

Capitalism and the Third World aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of dependency and world systems scholarship, and questions whether such theories offer a scientific basis for the study of international relations. Wil Hout compares the theories of dependency and world systems with their theoretical predecessors and competitors. In the first part of the book, comparisons are made with traditional economic and neo-Marxist theories of imperialism, the liberal theory of international free trade, Prebisch's structuralism and modernization theories. The second part analyzes the writings of Andre Gunder Frank, Samir Amin, Johan Galtung and Immanuel Wallerstein, and tests three causal models derived from the writings of these scholars using quantitative macro-political and macro-economic data. This study may be used for courses on international political economy and development economics and should be of particular interest to those studying the political economy of North-South relations.

Toward a Neo-Institutionalist Theory of Imperialism

Toward a Neo-Institutionalist Theory of Imperialism

Marxist Theories of Imperialism, a Critical Survey, 2d ed

Marxist Theories of Imperialism, a Critical Survey, 2d ed

Joseph Schumpeter: scholar, teacher and politician

Part 1 Schumpeter the economist: Joseph A. Schumpeter's theory in its relationship to Marxism the Schumpeterian entrepreneur Schumpeter's Vienna or the Baur-Mises-Schumpeter controversy the genesis of Schumpeter's theory of economic development - the Schumpeterian system the process of industrialization in imperial Austria the intellectual roots of Schumpeter's theory of the entrepreneur, Marx and Schumpeter the modern theory of imperialism the crisis of the tax state. Part 2 Schumpeter and the Austrian economy: the periodization of the Austrian and German economies - economy in Austria and Germany around 1850 the economic growth between 1850 and 1913 the cyclical course of the Austrian economy from 1850 to 1913 the cyclical course of the German Schumpeter and the Austrian School of Economics. Part 3 Schumpeter the man and the politician: Joseph A. Schumpeter as a university teacher Joseph A. Schumpeter as Austrian Minister of Finance Schumpeter's personal letters personal register.

Crossing frontiers: explorations in international political economy

Part 1 Actor behaviour in international economic relations - the state as unitary actor: foreign economic policy - some general principles of analysis United States monetary policy and economic nationalism. Part 2 Adding the domestic dimension - the United States: international debt and linkage strategies - some foreign-policy implications for the United States the revolution in Atlantic economic relations - a bargain comes unstuck an explosion in the kitchen? US economic relations with other advanced industrial states. Part 3 Adding the domestic dimension - examples from Europe: Britain's decision to join the Common Market Europe's money, America's problem European financial integration and national banking interests. Part 4 Issues of systemic organization and management: the political economy of monetary reform today balance-of-payments financing - evolution of a regime toward a general theory of imperialism.