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This article develops a framework for analysing the distinctive national trajectories of European varieties of capitalism under the conditioning of 'the international'. It does so through a critical engagement with two prominent historical materialist literatures - transnational historical materialism and uneven and combined development. I argue that, in contrast to these contributions, a nationally-oriented perspective utilizing Antonio Gramsci's writings on 'common sense' has greater potential for narrowing the optic from broader concerns to fine-grained analysis. In particular, I focus on how articulations between the national and the international are constitutive of how humans make sense of the material basis for their existence.The Dutch variety of capitalism is then examined in order to demonstrate the advantages of utilizing this 'common sense' framework for political economy analysis.
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My contribution to this forum on Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton’s monograph reflects on how their work over the last two decades informs Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis.1 In particular, I enquire into the thematic sequencing of the argument, which primarily reflects their socialization into the discipline of International Relations (IR) in the late 1990s. Yet the final chapter in parts II and III – on the social factory and ruptural resistances respectively – indicates a broader, cross-disciplinary approach to the world of international relations. Hence, I ask whether the necessarily historical materialist moment that Bieler and Morton call for is aimed at IR the discipline or the study of international relations more holistically.
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110210
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2012.
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This article argues that in many cases the theoretical resources for a revived and enriched 'critical International Political Economy' already exist, and we would do well to revisit earlier works when seeking to intervene in contemporary debates. Through an initial engagement with the recent plethora of contributions on 'the international', I contend that Nicos Poulantzas' later writings deserve a rereading. In particular, his work on the historicity of territory and the internationalisation of capital constitutes a series of rich and suggestive commentaries. The significance of his remarks are later illustrated via a consideration of Germany, where I argue that the changes wrought by the growing imbrication of the German economy with transnational circuits of capital have been taking place through, and not necessarily against, the historicity of German capitalism's emergence and evolution.
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