Kees Van Der Pijl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 318293 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kees Van Der Pijl |
| NOMBRES | Kees |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Pijl |
| FIRMA | VAN DER PIJL K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sussex |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
From indirect to direct rule? Transnational policy planning bodies and global governance in the Covid crisis
The origins of contemporary supra-national power go back to the second British Empire, which, unlike the first, faced organized labor as a potential revolutionary force. The formation of the Rhodes-Milner Group was meant to better manage the formation of the public mood, and the Boer War in South Africa demanded close integration of imperial affairs. A central figure in the Rhodes-Milner Group, Lord Esher, was also the architect of the Committee …
The Centenary of the Russian Revolution and Permanent Counterrevolution
In my paper, I analyse the distant consequences of Russian Revolution of 1917 in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They can be traced even now. I also study the ideological opposition of Soviet–Russian and international socialism vs. Western capitalism through the prism of revolutionary–counterrevolutionary struggle in both Soviet and post-Soviet times. In view of persistent economic and mental crisis of modern Western capitalism, it is h…
The Russian Revolution at 100
The Russian Revolution is analysed in this paper in the context of a conjuncture dominated by counterrevolution. Beginning with the repression of the 1850s, a process of permanent counterrevolution has become the over-determining trend of social-political history. The Russian Revolution was subject to several distinct aspects of this process. First was external counterrevolution, the attack on it from the outside. Whilst Anglo-America was the mai…
Democracy, Planning, and Big Data
Starting in the late 1960s, the development of the productive forces of society entered a new stage: the Information Revolution, an era focused on the application of information theories such as cybernetics combined with advances in computer technology and digital communication networks, culminating in the Internet. Under capitalist conditions, this has already resulted in a knowledge economy, but the social, auto-regulatory possibilities it open…
The world view of the Atlantic ruling class as academic discipline
The BRICS-An Involuntary Contender Bloc Under Attack
In this piece I look at the BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) as rivals of the West, united more by circumstance than by intent. It emerged as a seemingly innocuous banker's gimmick referring to the 'emerging market' potential of the countries thus thrown together, but due to the aggressive Western response to independent policies, the BRICS have slowly moved towards solidifying their cohesion. Comprising half the world'…
The elusive ‘International’
Le transnational et le national dans la formation de la classe capitaliste
Capital originated in between the political jurisdictions of the late Middle Ages and came of age in the English-speaking West. The British Isles and North America offered a liberal space which proved most congenial to the circulation of capital. By the late 17th century it occupied the high ground in the global political economy. Rival states, beginning with France, sought to match the advantage of the English-speaking West, by way of state-led …
Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production
The Discipline of Western Supremacy
Empire and Nationality in the Pax Britannica 2. The Crusade for Democracy and World Politics 3. Cold War Discipline in International Relations 4. The Pax Americana and National Liberation 5. The Crisis of International Discipline References Index
The Discipline of Western Supremacy
Neoliberal Entrenchment of North Atlantic Capital. From Corporate Self-Regulation to State Capture
After the financial crisis of 2007–8, neoliberal capitalism by all appearances has entrenched instead of being displaced. Its political–economic programme or ‘comprehensive concept of control’ continues to hold society in thrall. This was different in the crisis of 1974–5 when the corporate liberalism of the postwar years and its industry-centred class compromise were beginning to be replaced by finance-led neoliberalism and a compromise with ass…
Vordenker der Weltpolitik
The limits of discipline, or how to make sense of the state of the world
If we date the ‘human revolution’ as having occurred anywhere near 100,000 years ago, the first communities that began the long ascent out of the natural state to enter the new dimension of evoluti
Is the East Still Red? The Contender State and Class Struggles in China
Contemporary China here is understood as a 'contender state' resisting subordination to the liberal West. Previous contenders, from France, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union, all have had to submit to the West in the end, but the Chinese state class, by allowing a controlled capitalist development to energise its society and financing the US deficit from the proceeds of export-oriented industrialisation, has so far succeeded in neutralising We…
Arab Revolts and Nation-State Crisis
The triple crisis—of Western hegemony, of capital and of the nationstate form—within which the Arab uprisings of 2011 have unfolded, and longer-run history of Anglo-American strategies for containing popular aspirations to sovereignty
The Foreign Encounter in Myth and Religion
The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion is the second volume of Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, a three-volume project which is changing the way we think about international relations. In the first, Deutscher prize-winning volume, Kees van der Pilj introduced the ground-breaking argument that our current international system of nation states is merely a historically specific form of foreign relations, rather than a permanent …
Historicising the International
This paper is based on the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial-Prize Lecture given at SOAS in London, on 27 November 2009. It claims that Marxism remains built around a critique of political economy (‘economics’) but lacks a parallel critique of international relations (IR). IR naturalises the organisation of inter-state relations along lines comparable to the naturalisation of the capitalist economy by economics. The paper argues that the discip…
The resurgence of German capital in Europe
European integration is interpreted in this paper as the route by which (West) Germany, profiting from close ties with the English-speaking West, was able to restore its full sovereignty and economic pre-eminence in Europe. Yet in shaping the actual integration process, it was France which played the key role. Most of the landmark steps towards the current EU were French proposals to pre-empt Anglophone-German collusion; creating European structu…
Atlantic Ideologies
Kees van der Pijl on Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World. Traditions of pragmatic flexibility as explanation for the ascendancy of the Anglosphere—and basis for a coming realignment of US foreign policy
Capital and the state system
This paper is set up as a critique of Alex Callinicos's Callinicos, Alex. 2007. Does capitalism need the state system?. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(4): 533–549. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] contribution, ‘Does capitalism need the state system?’ It challenges his understanding of the relationship between capitalism and the state system and the theory of imperialism, before presenting an alternative view that conce…
A Lockean Europe
Liberalization and its discontents seen in the longue durée—the struggle of late-coming statist contenders against an Anglophone heartland, now subsuming Europe in its Lockean embrace. Kees van der Pijl tracks the removal of macro-economic questions from democratic decision-making as central precondition for the EU’s neoliberal turn
Modes de relations étrangères. Élargir le champ des relations internationales
De la même manière que l'étude de l'économie se sera développée en distinguant entre différents modes de production, l'étude des relations internationales pourrait elle aussi profiter d'une distinction entre modes de relations étrangères. De cette manière, l'étude des relations internationales pourrait peut-être être sauvée d'une virtuelle non-pertinence dans un monde au sein duquel les frontières de l'État apparaissent de plus en plus perméables…
Gramsci and Left Managerialism
This essay argues that one way of understanding Gramsci today is as an organic intellectual of a class of managerial cadre which develops in advanced capitalism. With the growth of monopolistic structures and a deepening state role in capitalist society, a separate class of mediating functionaries emerges, entrusted with managerial tasks in running the economy and the state. The problems of conquering power from the perspective of this ‘new middl…
A theory of global capitalism
William Robinson has made a name with key writings on democratic struggles in Latin America, on the propagation of electoral democracy as a tool of US contemporary foreign policy and, more recently
Ruling Classes, Hegemony, and the State System
(1989). Ruling Classes, Hegemony, and the State System. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 19, Transnational Relations And Class Strategy, pp. 7-35
The resurgence of German capital in Europe
European integration is interpreted in this paper as the route by which (West) Germany, profiting from close ties with the English-speaking West, was able to restore its full sovereignty and economic pre-eminence in Europe. Yet in shaping the actual integration process, it was France which played the key role. Most of the landmark steps towards the current EU were French proposals to pre-empt Anglophone-German collusion; creating European structu…
Is the East Still Red? The Contender State and Class Struggles in China
Contemporary China here is understood as a 'contender state' resisting subordination to the liberal West. Previous contenders, from France, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union, all have had to submit to the West in the end, but the Chinese state class, by allowing a controlled capitalist development to energise its society and financing the US deficit from the proceeds of export-oriented industrialisation, has so far succeeded in neutralising We…
A theory of global capitalism
William Robinson has made a name with key writings on democratic struggles in Latin America, on the propagation of electoral democracy as a tool of US contemporary foreign policy and, more recently
Neoliberal Entrenchment of North Atlantic Capital. From Corporate Self-Regulation to State Capture
After the financial crisis of 2007–8, neoliberal capitalism by all appearances has entrenched instead of being displaced. Its political–economic programme or ‘comprehensive concept of control’ continues to hold society in thrall. This was different in the crisis of 1974–5 when the corporate liberalism of the postwar years and its industry-centred class compromise were beginning to be replaced by finance-led neoliberalism and a compromise with ass…
Strategic Management of Public Interest Organizations
This paper argues that strategic management of a public interest organization not only needs to be aimed at the interests it represents, but it also has to incorporate the organization’s internal workings. The functioning of a public interest organization is seen to suffer from a primary dilemma of membership and influence and a secondary dilemma of representation and control. If these dilemmas are not handled adequately, the public interest orga…
The BRICS-An Involuntary Contender Bloc Under Attack
In this piece I look at the BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) as rivals of the West, united more by circumstance than by intent. It emerged as a seemingly innocuous banker's gimmick referring to the 'emerging market' potential of the countries thus thrown together, but due to the aggressive Western response to independent policies, the BRICS have slowly moved towards solidifying their cohesion. Comprising half the world'…
Capital and the state system
This paper is set up as a critique of Alex Callinicos's Callinicos, Alex. 2007. Does capitalism need the state system?. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(4): 533–549. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] contribution, ‘Does capitalism need the state system?’ It challenges his understanding of the relationship between capitalism and the state system and the theory of imperialism, before presenting an alternative view that conce…
Two faces of the transnational cadre under neo-liberalism
From Gorbachev to Kosovo
This paper argues that the collapse of the Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia catalysed an acceleration in the transition from a corporate liberal, 'Rhineland' pattern of capitalist discipline to a neoliberal pattern in the North Atlantic political economy. This process evolved through an initial phase of conservative, sphere-of-interest policies in which the particularities of the different Western states prevailed over any common posture; to a US-led o…
Historicising the International
This paper is based on the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial-Prize Lecture given at SOAS in London, on 27 November 2009. It claims that Marxism remains built around a critique of political economy (‘economics’) but lacks a parallel critique of international relations (IR). IR naturalises the organisation of inter-state relations along lines comparable to the naturalisation of the capitalist economy by economics. The paper argues that the discip…
A theory of transnational revolution
This article builds on the neo‐Hegelian theory of European revolutions as developed by Eugen Rosenstock‐Huessy. This theory considers the major revolutions, from the era of the Crusades to the Bolshevik Revolution, as part of a single time/space structure. It holds that each revolution provoked the next by implanting so‐called ‘pressure points’ abroad, while shaping the culture of an era and a particular national character in the country of origi…
The Russian Revolution at 100
The Russian Revolution is analysed in this paper in the context of a conjuncture dominated by counterrevolution. Beginning with the repression of the 1850s, a process of permanent counterrevolution has become the over-determining trend of social-political history. The Russian Revolution was subject to several distinct aspects of this process. First was external counterrevolution, the attack on it from the outside. Whilst Anglo-America was the mai…
The elusive ‘International’
Le transnational et le national dans la formation de la classe capitaliste
Capital originated in between the political jurisdictions of the late Middle Ages and came of age in the English-speaking West. The British Isles and North America offered a liberal space which proved most congenial to the circulation of capital. By the late 17th century it occupied the high ground in the global political economy. Rival states, beginning with France, sought to match the advantage of the English-speaking West, by way of state-led …
Arab Revolts and Nation-State Crisis
The triple crisis—of Western hegemony, of capital and of the nationstate form—within which the Arab uprisings of 2011 have unfolded, and longer-run history of Anglo-American strategies for containing popular aspirations to sovereignty
A Lockean Europe
Liberalization and its discontents seen in the longue durée—the struggle of late-coming statist contenders against an Anglophone heartland, now subsuming Europe in its Lockean embrace. Kees van der Pijl tracks the removal of macro-economic questions from democratic decision-making as central precondition for the EU’s neoliberal turn
Modes de relations étrangères. Élargir le champ des relations internationales
De la même manière que l'étude de l'économie se sera développée en distinguant entre différents modes de production, l'étude des relations internationales pourrait elle aussi profiter d'une distinction entre modes de relations étrangères. De cette manière, l'étude des relations internationales pourrait peut-être être sauvée d'une virtuelle non-pertinence dans un monde au sein duquel les frontières de l'État apparaissent de plus en plus perméables…
Gramsci and Left Managerialism
This essay argues that one way of understanding Gramsci today is as an organic intellectual of a class of managerial cadre which develops in advanced capitalism. With the growth of monopolistic structures and a deepening state role in capitalist society, a separate class of mediating functionaries emerges, entrusted with managerial tasks in running the economy and the state. The problems of conquering power from the perspective of this ‘new middl…
Restoring the Radical Imagination in Political Economy
(2001). Restoring the Radical Imagination in Political Economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 380-390
The History of Class Struggle
It has become conventional, even on the left, to believe that the days of class struggle are over. That conviction has, of course, been strengthened by the demise of the Soviet bloc, which capped a protracted defeat of left-wing forces the world over. The idea that there could still emerge a collective subject striving for socialism is rejected in the face of advancing individualization and fragmentation, the contradictory but "successful" functi…
Class Formation at the International Level
Class Formation at the International Level
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
Ruling Classes, Hegemony, and the State System
(1989). Ruling Classes, Hegemony, and the State System. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 19, Transnational Relations And Class Strategy, pp. 7-35
The Sovereignty of Capital Impaired
Restructuring Capital and Restructuring Hegemony
In one long revolutionary wave, the East European regimes of ‘really existing socialism’ have been swept away in the past two years. Communism as a living political movement no longer exists, and anticommunism is therefore no longer an essential element of bourgeois ideology in the West. Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and most of their former allies in the Third World (Angola, Ethiopia, Vietnam), are swiftly being reintegrated into the world e…
Soviet socialism and passive revolution
The thesis of this chapter is that the demise of Soviet socialism and the collapse of the USSR have to be interpreted in terms of a transition of one particular state/society configuration to another. The passing of a Hobbesian Leviathan rather than a crisis of socialism as much marks its dénouement. Meanwhile, it is not only Gramsci's notes on the importance of civil society as a sphere separate from formal state power that warrants a reference …
Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations
The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyse the contradiction between globalising and territorially-based social and political forces in the context of past, present and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a 'triple crisis' involving…
Vordenker der Weltpolitik
Vordenker der Weltpolitik.
A theory of transnational revolution
This article builds on the neo‐Hegelian theory of European revolutions as developed by Eugen Rosenstock‐Huessy. This theory considers the major revolutions, from the era of the Crusades to the Bolshevik Revolution, as part of a single time/space structure. It holds that each revolution provoked the next by implanting so‐called ‘pressure points’ abroad, while shaping the culture of an era and a particular national character in the country of origi…
Transnational class formation and state forms
This chapter explores aspects of the process of transnational class formation of the capitalist class or bourgeoisie in historical perspective. It looks at forms of imagined community (Anderson, 1983) by which this class established a new identity literally outside the pre-existing community and outside the reach of prior social and political structures. Freemasonry, operating within and across a range of state–society complexes from the late sev…
Innovation and Transformation in International Studies
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new research problems, this collection of critically minded, original essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted directions. Bridging social theory and international relations theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributor…
The History of Class Struggle
It has become conventional, even on the left, to believe that the days of class struggle are over. That conviction has, of course, been strengthened by the demise of the Soviet bloc, which capped a protracted defeat of left-wing forces the world over. The idea that there could still emerge a collective subject striving for socialism is rejected in the face of advancing individualization and fragmentation, the contradictory but "successful" functi…
International Relations and Capitalist Discipline
My aim in this chapter is to look at the interconnections between phases of the imposition of the discipline of capital; phases in the international circulation, or world market movement, of various forms of capital; and phases in the geopolitical spread of a ‘heartland’ of capital, originally centred on England and the lands of English settlement. My argument is that as the new millennium begins, a combination of the discipline of capital with t…
Restoring the Radical Imagination in Political Economy
(2001). Restoring the Radical Imagination in Political Economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 380-390
From Gorbachev to Kosovo
This paper argues that the collapse of the Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia catalysed an acceleration in the transition from a corporate liberal, 'Rhineland' pattern of capitalist discipline to a neoliberal pattern in the North Atlantic political economy. This process evolved through an initial phase of conservative, sphere-of-interest policies in which the particularities of the different Western states prevailed over any common posture; to a US-led o…
Communications
The Global Gamble - Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance Peter Gowan and Global Social Policy - International Organizations and the Future of Welfare BOB Deacon with Michelle Hulse and Paul S…
The Global Gamble - Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance PETER GOWAN and Global Social Policy - International Organizations and the Future of Welfare BOB DEACON with MICHELLE HULSE and PAUL STUBBS" published on 01 Jan 2003 by Brill
Two faces of the transnational cadre under neo-liberalism
Strategic Management of Public Interest Organizations
This paper argues that strategic management of a public interest organization not only needs to be aimed at the interests it represents, but it also has to incorporate the organization’s internal workings. The functioning of a public interest organization is seen to suffer from a primary dilemma of membership and influence and a secondary dilemma of representation and control. If these dilemmas are not handled adequately, the public interest orga…
Gramsci and Left Managerialism
This essay argues that one way of understanding Gramsci today is as an organic intellectual of a class of managerial cadre which develops in advanced capitalism. With the growth of monopolistic structures and a deepening state role in capitalist society, a separate class of mediating functionaries emerges, entrusted with managerial tasks in running the economy and the state. The problems of conquering power from the perspective of this ‘new middl…
A theory of global capitalism
William Robinson has made a name with key writings on democratic struggles in Latin America, on the propagation of electoral democracy as a tool of US contemporary foreign policy and, more recently
A Lockean Europe
Liberalization and its discontents seen in the longue durée—the struggle of late-coming statist contenders against an Anglophone heartland, now subsuming Europe in its Lockean embrace. Kees van der Pijl tracks the removal of macro-economic questions from democratic decision-making as central precondition for the EU’s neoliberal turn
Modes de relations étrangères. Élargir le champ des relations internationales
De la même manière que l'étude de l'économie se sera développée en distinguant entre différents modes de production, l'étude des relations internationales pourrait elle aussi profiter d'une distinction entre modes de relations étrangères. De cette manière, l'étude des relations internationales pourrait peut-être être sauvée d'une virtuelle non-pertinence dans un monde au sein duquel les frontières de l'État apparaissent de plus en plus perméables…
Capital and the state system
This paper is set up as a critique of Alex Callinicos's Callinicos, Alex. 2007. Does capitalism need the state system?. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(4): 533–549. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] contribution, ‘Does capitalism need the state system?’ It challenges his understanding of the relationship between capitalism and the state system and the theory of imperialism, before presenting an alternative view that conce…
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