| ID | 096869 |
| Title Proper | Transnational pathways and politico-economic power |
| Other Title Information | globalisation and the Lebanese civil war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Hourani, Najib |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Celebrants of neo-liberal globalisation and their critics ascribe to the rationality of finance capital enormous power. It opens new territories, produces new cultural forms and creates a hierarchy of cities and the spaces within them. How might this image change when viewed from spaces allegedly excluded from capitalist globalisation? For many, Lebanon during its 1975-1990 civil war was such a place. The international financial institutions and their Lebanese allies presented neo-liberal reform as the necessary prerequisite for post-conflict re-integration with rational processes of capitalist globalisation. Through a multi-sited political economy of one financial network operant in wartime Lebanon, I show that the "militia economy" was never outside larger processes of financial globalisation. I argue that it was integrated into a global realm consisting not of financial corporations operating according to a universal capitalist rationality, but rather one of similarly constituted networks of capitalists, companies and other institutions working within and alongside a variety of states in pursuit of politico-economic power. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 15, No. 2; 2010: p290-311 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol. 15, No. 2; 2010: p290-311 |
| Key Words | Politico - Economic Power ; Globalization ; Civil War ; Lebanan |