Peter Burnham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3673576 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Burnham |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Burnham |
| FIRMA | BURNHAM P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0987-5933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 384 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy
This article presents a ‘primacy of domestic politics’ interpretation of the Thatcher government’s main objectives in the negotiations of the early 1980s, which secured the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. In the immediate aftermath of the Falklands conflict, sovereignty issues were uppermost in public discourse and the government’s decision to cede sovereignty over Hong Kong seems inconsistent with other elements of Thatcher’s foreign polic…
International order transition and the UK’s tilt to the ‘Indo-Pacific’
This article analyzes the UK government’s response to international order transition as seen through its recent foreign policy ‘tilt’ toward the ‘Indo-Pacific’. It suggests that in post-Brexit Britain the determinants of foreign policy are increasingly complex involving an attempt to balance domestic policy, manage internal party conflict and establish an “independent” position in international relations in the context of US attempts to build a “…
Ideology, political economy and the crisis of the capitalist state
Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State is perhaps Simon's greatest intellectual and political contribution. This article sets the book in the context of his teaching at Warwick and the development of his thought through Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology to the publication of Keynesianism. Building on his analysis of the ideological dimensions of classical political economy, Simon set himself the ambitious task of grasping the …
The Alternative Externalisation Strategy, Operational Independence and the Bank of England
This article places analysis of operational independence within a context of broader debates that took place in the Bank of England in the 1970s focused on how it might achieve greater prominence and authority. A clear alternative to operational independence emerged in the form of an ‘externalisation’ strategy designed to loosen constraints on the Bank and enhance its role in the formulation and direction of national economic policy. Contrary to …
Depoliticisation
This article places the study of depoliticisation within a framework that highlights the crisis-ridden character of capitalist development. It suggests that by linking depoliticisation to the activities of state managers engaged in crisis management, the concept scores highly in terms of clarity and precision over more expansive uses that lack a cutting edge and result in the assertion that ‘depoliticisation is everywhere’. In a context character…
Depoliticising Monetary Policy
This article assesses the thinking behind what is perhaps the single most important attempt to depoliticise monetary policy making in postwar Britain prior to the Bank of England Act 1998 – the introduction of the minimum lending rate (MLR) in October 1972. Drawing on recently released primary sources it argues that the MLR was devised to ‘defuse’ the political implications of Bank Rate policy and thereby shield the government from the consequenc…
Towards a Political Theory of Crisis
This article analyses the Great Recession in terms of a movement from a discourse of financial crisis to a crisis of sovereign debt to the current phase of the politics of austerity and cuts. It suggests that the unifying factor in the response of policy-makers to the crisis is the attempt to recompose class relations and tighten marketbased constraints over labour power and money. The strategy represents a clear illustration of the “political us…
Class, Capital and Crisis
The financial crisis that currently threatens the stability of global capitalism is the latest in a long line of similar episodes stretching back some 200 years. While many orthodox economists explain the crisis in terms of the failure of the proper operation of the market mechanism, radical accounts see crisis as an aspect of the constitution of capital and of the process of the accumulation of capital itself. This article explores the extent to…
Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society
This collection of new essays re-examines and evaluates central themes in the work of Ralph Miliband, a leading contributor to Marxist political theory in twentieth century. It provides an essential r
Research Methods in Politics
This is a substantially revised and improved second edition of a book already established as the leading introductory research methods text for political science outside North America.This book covers a very broad range of methods. It is very accessibly written with many examples throughout drawn from a wide range of countries and political systems. 2nd edition is more systematically international in scope, is updated throughout and has additiona…
The Politicisation of Monetary Policy-Making in Postwar Britain
Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order
This chapter was originally published in 1991. The reason for reprinting the original text is not, of course, that it is incapable of improvement but rather that as the first serious engagement with neo-Gramscian theory the piece has a certain cogency and is of interest as it stands. In terms of the further development of the Open Marxist alternative to neo-Gramscian theory, the reader is directed to chapters 4, 6, 8, 10 and 11 in this volume by …
Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour
This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes glo
Marxism, the State and British Politics
Depoliticisation
New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticisation
A number of commentators in the 1980s sought to explain the character of the Thatcher administration. By contrast, relatively little work has been produced that seeks to analyse the principles and governing strategies of the Blair government. Focusing primarily on economic management, this article offers a characterisation of statecraft under Blair in terms of the politics of depoliticisation. In summary, it argues that the Blair government has f…
Marx, international political economy and globalisation
It is perhaps understandable that until the fall of the Soviet Union, the study of Marxism within the discipline of international relations was restricted largely to discussion of the state ideology Marxism-Leninism. The events of 1989, and the spectacular rise of the sub-discipline of international political economy in the context of globalisation, have, somewhat paradoxically, led to a resurgence of interest in critical, open forms of Marxism. …
Britain's External Economic Policy in the Early 1950s
In February 1952 the British Cabinet met to consider implementing a series of proposals that would have transformed the postwar international political economy. The policies, code-named Operation Robot, centred on introducing sterling convertibility on a floating exchange rate allied to the blocking of sterling balances and the reopening of the London gold market on budget day, 11 March. To assess whether the defeat of Robot is of historical sign…
Professor Jim Bulpitt 1937–99
Operation robot and the British political economy in the early‐1950s
Operation Robot was a scheme which emerged from the Bank of England and the Overseas Finance Division of the Treasury in January 1952. It sought to convince ministers of the need to radically restructure Britain's domestic political economy and centred on the proposal to introduce sterling convertibility on a floating exchange rate in the budget of 1952. Although Butler failed to gain sufficient cabinet backing for the scheme, the issues raised b…
The politics of economic management in the 1990s
Globalisation
The concept of ‘globalisation’ increasingly dominates economic and political debate in the 1990s. However, despite a profusion of commentaries and case studies on aspects of ‘globalisation’ such as ‘Japanisation', ‘Americanisation', ‘McDonaldisation’ and, of course, global information technologies, there are few radical interrogations of the notion of ‘globalisation/internationalisation’ and little discussion of the theoretical implications of re…
Britain and the Politics of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 1990–1992
This article focuses on Britain's membership of the ERM 1990–1992. The authors argue that membership was pursued by the British government as a means of insulating the administration from the consequences of recession. They show that membership was motivated by class politics and thus argue against economistic perspectives on European integration
Open Marxism and vulgar international political economy
(1994). Open Marxism and vulgar international political economy. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 221-231
Book notes
Political Participation and Democracy in Britain by Geraint Parry, George Moyser and Neil Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.xviii + 510; index, bibliography, three appendices. £60 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 33298 2 and 33602 3 Work and Citizenship in the New Europe edited by Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.254; index, bibliography. £38.50. ISBN 1 85278 739 2 Capitalist Developme…
New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticisation
A number of commentators in the 1980s sought to explain the character of the Thatcher administration. By contrast, relatively little work has been produced that seeks to analyse the principles and governing strategies of the Blair government. Focusing primarily on economic management, this article offers a characterisation of statecraft under Blair in terms of the politics of depoliticisation. In summary, it argues that the Blair government has f…
Depoliticisation
This article places the study of depoliticisation within a framework that highlights the crisis-ridden character of capitalist development. It suggests that by linking depoliticisation to the activities of state managers engaged in crisis management, the concept scores highly in terms of clarity and precision over more expansive uses that lack a cutting edge and result in the assertion that ‘depoliticisation is everywhere’. In a context character…
Open Marxism and vulgar international political economy
(1994). Open Marxism and vulgar international political economy. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 221-231
The politics of economic management in the 1990s
Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order
This paper assesses the neo-Gramscian analysis of the relation between states, arguing that it replicates the errors of Weberian pluralism. A capital relation approach is called for if we are to avoid over emphasising ideology in debates about capitalist restructuring
Depoliticisation
The Politicisation of Monetary Policy-Making in Postwar Britain
The Organisational View of the State
The state is arguably the most fundamental concept in politics and international relations. However, much confusion surrounds the employment of the term. This article emphasizes the importance of adopting an organisational definition of the state. The strength of this approach is that it draws attention to the changing nature of state forms, thereby enabling distinctions to be made between national form of the state and the nation-state, and betw…
Towards a Political Theory of Crisis
This article analyses the Great Recession in terms of a movement from a discourse of financial crisis to a crisis of sovereign debt to the current phase of the politics of austerity and cuts. It suggests that the unifying factor in the response of policy-makers to the crisis is the attempt to recompose class relations and tighten marketbased constraints over labour power and money. The strategy represents a clear illustration of the “political us…
Depoliticising Monetary Policy
This article assesses the thinking behind what is perhaps the single most important attempt to depoliticise monetary policy making in postwar Britain prior to the Bank of England Act 1998 – the introduction of the minimum lending rate (MLR) in October 1972. Drawing on recently released primary sources it argues that the MLR was devised to ‘defuse’ the political implications of Bank Rate policy and thereby shield the government from the consequenc…
Class, Capital and Crisis
The financial crisis that currently threatens the stability of global capitalism is the latest in a long line of similar episodes stretching back some 200 years. While many orthodox economists explain the crisis in terms of the failure of the proper operation of the market mechanism, radical accounts see crisis as an aspect of the constitution of capital and of the process of the accumulation of capital itself. This article explores the extent to…
Globalisation
The concept of ‘globalisation’ increasingly dominates economic and political debate in the 1990s. However, despite a profusion of commentaries and case studies on aspects of ‘globalisation’ such as ‘Japanisation', ‘Americanisation', ‘McDonaldisation’ and, of course, global information technologies, there are few radical interrogations of the notion of ‘globalisation/internationalisation’ and little discussion of the theoretical implications of re…
The Alternative Externalisation Strategy, Operational Independence and the Bank of England
This article places analysis of operational independence within a context of broader debates that took place in the Bank of England in the 1970s focused on how it might achieve greater prominence and authority. A clear alternative to operational independence emerged in the form of an ‘externalisation’ strategy designed to loosen constraints on the Bank and enhance its role in the formulation and direction of national economic policy. Contrary to …
International order transition and the UK’s tilt to the ‘Indo-Pacific’
This article analyzes the UK government’s response to international order transition as seen through its recent foreign policy ‘tilt’ toward the ‘Indo-Pacific’. It suggests that in post-Brexit Britain the determinants of foreign policy are increasingly complex involving an attempt to balance domestic policy, manage internal party conflict and establish an “independent” position in international relations in the context of US attempts to build a “…
Marxism, the State and British Politics
Marx, international political economy and globalisation
It is perhaps understandable that until the fall of the Soviet Union, the study of Marxism within the discipline of international relations was restricted largely to discussion of the state ideology Marxism-Leninism. The events of 1989, and the spectacular rise of the sub-discipline of international political economy in the context of globalisation, have, somewhat paradoxically, led to a resurgence of interest in critical, open forms of Marxism. …
Operation robot and the British political economy in the early‐1950s
Operation Robot was a scheme which emerged from the Bank of England and the Overseas Finance Division of the Treasury in January 1952. It sought to convince ministers of the need to radically restructure Britain's domestic political economy and centred on the proposal to introduce sterling convertibility on a floating exchange rate in the budget of 1952. Although Butler failed to gain sufficient cabinet backing for the scheme, the issues raised b…
Reassessing Thatcher’s foreign policy
This article presents a ‘primacy of domestic politics’ interpretation of the Thatcher government’s main objectives in the negotiations of the early 1980s, which secured the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. In the immediate aftermath of the Falklands conflict, sovereignty issues were uppermost in public discourse and the government’s decision to cede sovereignty over Hong Kong seems inconsistent with other elements of Thatcher’s foreign polic…
Britain's External Economic Policy in the Early 1950s
In February 1952 the British Cabinet met to consider implementing a series of proposals that would have transformed the postwar international political economy. The policies, code-named Operation Robot, centred on introducing sterling convertibility on a floating exchange rate allied to the blocking of sterling balances and the reopening of the London gold market on budget day, 11 March. To assess whether the defeat of Robot is of historical sign…
Professor Jim Bulpitt 1937–99
Britain and the Politics of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 1990–1992
This article focuses on Britain's membership of the ERM 1990–1992. The authors argue that membership was pursued by the British government as a means of insulating the administration from the consequences of recession. They show that membership was motivated by class politics and thus argue against economistic perspectives on European integration
Method and Myth in Political Research
Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order
This paper assesses the neo-Gramscian analysis of the relation between states, arguing that it replicates the errors of Weberian pluralism. A capital relation approach is called for if we are to avoid over emphasising ideology in debates about capitalist restructuring
The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction
The international state system and theories of postwar reconstruction towards the Washington negotiations the Washington loan agreement the Marshall offensive the revision in state strategy the impact of rearmament
Re-evaluating the Washington Loan Agreement
The Financial Agreement signed between the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom on the 6th December 1945 (popularly known as the Washington Loan Agreement, and hereafter referred to as ‘the Agreement’) is widely interpreted as an agreement which imposed fundamental constraints on British external economic policy and is even seen as a benchmark in postwar international relations signalling the subordination of Britain to the lev…
Method and Myth in Political Research
Open Marxism and vulgar international political economy
(1994). Open Marxism and vulgar international political economy. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 221-231
Book notes
Political Participation and Democracy in Britain by Geraint Parry, George Moyser and Neil Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp.xviii + 510; index, bibliography, three appendices. £60 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 33298 2 and 33602 3 Work and Citizenship in the New Europe edited by Harry Coenen and Peter Leisink. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp.254; index, bibliography. £38.50. ISBN 1 85278 739 2 Capitalist Developme…
The Organisational View of the State
The state is arguably the most fundamental concept in politics and international relations. However, much confusion surrounds the employment of the term. This article emphasizes the importance of adopting an organisational definition of the state. The strength of this approach is that it draws attention to the changing nature of state forms, thereby enabling distinctions to be made between national form of the state and the nation-state, and betw…
Britain and the Politics of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism 1990–1992
This article focuses on Britain's membership of the ERM 1990–1992. The authors argue that membership was pursued by the British government as a means of insulating the administration from the consequences of recession. They show that membership was motivated by class politics and thus argue against economistic perspectives on European integration
Globalisation
The concept of ‘globalisation’ increasingly dominates economic and political debate in the 1990s. However, despite a profusion of commentaries and case studies on aspects of ‘globalisation’ such as ‘Japanisation', ‘Americanisation', ‘McDonaldisation’ and, of course, global information technologies, there are few radical interrogations of the notion of ‘globalisation/internationalisation’ and little discussion of the theoretical implications of re…
Professor Jim Bulpitt 1937–99
Operation robot and the British political economy in the early‐1950s
Operation Robot was a scheme which emerged from the Bank of England and the Overseas Finance Division of the Treasury in January 1952. It sought to convince ministers of the need to radically restructure Britain's domestic political economy and centred on the proposal to introduce sterling convertibility on a floating exchange rate in the budget of 1952. Although Butler failed to gain sufficient cabinet backing for the scheme, the issues raised b…
The politics of economic management in the 1990s
Britain's External Economic Policy in the Early 1950s
In February 1952 the British Cabinet met to consider implementing a series of proposals that would have transformed the postwar international political economy. The policies, code-named Operation Robot, centred on introducing sterling convertibility on a floating exchange rate allied to the blocking of sterling balances and the reopening of the London gold market on budget day, 11 March. To assess whether the defeat of Robot is of historical sign…
New Labour and the Politics of Depoliticisation
A number of commentators in the 1980s sought to explain the character of the Thatcher administration. By contrast, relatively little work has been produced that seeks to analyse the principles and governing strategies of the Blair government. Focusing primarily on economic management, this article offers a characterisation of statecraft under Blair in terms of the politics of depoliticisation. In summary, it argues that the Blair government has f…
Marx, international political economy and globalisation
It is perhaps understandable that until the fall of the Soviet Union, the study of Marxism within the discipline of international relations was restricted largely to discussion of the state ideology Marxism-Leninism. The events of 1989, and the spectacular rise of the sub-discipline of international political economy in the context of globalisation, have, somewhat paradoxically, led to a resurgence of interest in critical, open forms of Marxism. …
Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order
This chapter was originally published in 1991. The reason for reprinting the original text is not, of course, that it is incapable of improvement but rather that as the first serious engagement with neo-Gramscian theory the piece has a certain cogency and is of interest as it stands. In terms of the further development of the Open Marxist alternative to neo-Gramscian theory, the reader is directed to chapters 4, 6, 8, 10 and 11 in this volume by …
Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour
This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes glo
Marxism, the State and British Politics
Depoliticisation
The Politicisation of Monetary Policy-Making in Postwar Britain
Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society
This collection of new essays re-examines and evaluates central themes in the work of Ralph Miliband, a leading contributor to Marxist political theory in twentieth century. It provides an essential r
Research Methods in Politics
This is a substantially revised and improved second edition of a book already established as the leading introductory research methods text for political science outside North America.This book covers a very broad range of methods. It is very accessibly written with many examples throughout drawn from a wide range of countries and political systems. 2nd edition is more systematically international in scope, is updated throughout and has additiona…
Class, Capital and Crisis
The financial crisis that currently threatens the stability of global capitalism is the latest in a long line of similar episodes stretching back some 200 years. While many orthodox economists explain the crisis in terms of the failure of the proper operation of the market mechanism, radical accounts see crisis as an aspect of the constitution of capital and of the process of the accumulation of capital itself. This article explores the extent to…
Depoliticising Monetary Policy
This article assesses the thinking behind what is perhaps the single most important attempt to depoliticise monetary policy making in postwar Britain prior to the Bank of England Act 1998 – the introduction of the minimum lending rate (MLR) in October 1972. Drawing on recently released primary sources it argues that the MLR was devised to ‘defuse’ the political implications of Bank Rate policy and thereby shield the government from the consequenc…
Towards a Political Theory of Crisis
This article analyses the Great Recession in terms of a movement from a discourse of financial crisis to a crisis of sovereign debt to the current phase of the politics of austerity and cuts. It suggests that the unifying factor in the response of policy-makers to the crisis is the attempt to recompose class relations and tighten marketbased constraints over labour power and money. The strategy represents a clear illustration of the “political us…
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