Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy - Exits and Conflicts

List of contents

1. Introduction: the world falling apart 2. Brexit and the causes of European disintegration 3. EU, Russia and the conflict in Ukraine 4. Trumponomics and the dynamics of global disintegration 5. Piketty’s fundamental inequality r > g: the key to understanding and overcoming the causes of disintegration 6. Conclusion: holoreflexivity and the shape of things to come

About the author

Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Summary

The success of the ‘Leave’ campaign over British EU membership, the conflict in Ukraine, and Donald Trump’s Presidency all have implications for a wider stage. Patomäki explores the world-historical mechanisms and processes that have created the conditions for the world’s current predicaments and, arguably, involve potential for better futures.

Additional text

Have we arrived to a New World Disorder? Well, the UK is not any more a stabilising power in Europe, and the US has stopped functioning as stabiliser in the global system. Behind these structural changes we find the manyfold failures of neoliberal economics. In the footsteps of Keynes, Polanyi and Habermas, Heikki Patomäki uncovers the causes and dynamics of these complex crises, but also identifies the keys of a progressive project that can save the legacy of enlightenment and democratic politics in Europe, as well as the world system, and help finding the way back to social progress.
- László Andor, Former EU Commissionner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Product details

• Authors: Heikki Patomaki, Heikki (University of Helsinki Patomaki, Heikki Patomäki, Patomaki Heikki
• Assisted by: Barry K. Gills (Editor of the series), Kevin Gray (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138065307
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06530-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Rethinking Globalizations; Rethinking Globalizations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government