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Critical Theory, The Welfare State, and Neo-liberalism
The welfare state arose in response to the side effects of a capitalist economy which creates both social and economic dislocation. Some thinkers...
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Neo-liberalism, China and Covid-19
This chapter tests our findings about the strength of China’s socio-economic model by way of focusing on the global pandemic caused by Covid-19. We...
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Neo-mercantilism in action: China and small states
This study investigates the relations between the People’s Republic of China and seven small European states with particular reference to China’s...
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Conclusion
This chapter summarises the argument and contribution of the book. An important theme from Carr that emerged in this book is on the relationship...
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Numerical rules or political government, that is the (European) question
Numerical rules can be defined as legal rules, the operative part of which is an economic indicator. This peculiar recombination of the technologies...
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‘The Market’ of European integration: a constitutional problem
A rupture in the dominant economic and political ideology of European integration is often identified with the rise of neo-liberalism in the 1980s....
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Modifying Diplomacy for the Twenty-First Century: A New Postmodern Approach
As this chapter is being written, shocking events are unfolding in the Ukraine after the full-scale invasion of the country by Russia on 24 February...
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Reading Poverty
The recommended readings for RMAPI working groups were shaped by the discourse of neo-liberalism. While they did not adopt all these ideas, they...
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Carr’s Lessons for Post-colonial IR
This chapter aims to show that Carr’s work opens avenues for engagement between classical realism and post-colonialism across two debates relevant to...
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Neo-Liberalism Rebooted: Resilience Versus Resistance
This chapter is divided into four parts. The first section takes issue with the post-modernist version of resilience thinking which is elaborated...
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Military Heroism in a Post-Heroic Era
This book explores the variety of forms that individual heroism and sacrifice can take in the context of contemporary military conflicts. It...
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Popular Islam and the Movement of the Rif
If certain Islamist parties have carried a critiqueCriticism, critique of the material and spiritual dynamics of capitalist society, are they...
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Conclusion: Resisting Neo-Liberalism
This chapter concludes that resilience thinking should be seen as part of a wider practice of neo-liberal enframing, one which typically involves a...
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Multilateralism in the Age of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism
This is an argument on the challenges that some African countries like Nigeria face on the contest between efficiency and ethics in the overarching...
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The OBR and the neo-liberal paradox
One of the issues raised by Ben Clift’s book on the OBR is the paradox in UK neo-liberal thinking since Brexit. This is created by the attempt to...
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AKP’s right-wing authoritarian populism
The aim of this study is to draw a conceptual framework for populism and then analyze AKP’s right-wing authoritarian populism in terms of examples of...
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The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance
This contribution explores how technocratic economic governance rests on underlying principles of political economy—normatively informed judgements...
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The coexistence of nationalism, Westernization, Russification, and Russophobia: facets of parallelization in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Parallelization theory complements earlier concepts in cultural and political history by focusing on the coexistence of seemingly contradictory...