Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 282885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bastiaan |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Apeldoorn |
| SIGNATURE | VAN APELDOORN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5501-0420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 239 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The end of open door globalism: How Biden and the democratic foreign policy elite consolidated trump’s remaking of American grand strategy
President Biden promised to reverse ‘America First’ foreign policy and restore US global leadership, yet his administration largely continued Trump’s shift away from the long-standing grand strategy of Open Door Globalism. While partially reembracing diplomacy and alliances, Biden and the Democratic foreign policy elite consolidated the Trumpian shift away from (neo-)liberal expansionism to a strategy of economic nationalism and expansive competi…
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 crisis has once again brought the role of the state in the capitalist economy to the fore. Rather than viewing this as a ‘return of the state’, this article conceptualises the current dynamic in terms of a reconfiguration of the roles the state plays, distinguishing between a market-creating, a market-correcting, a market-intervening, and a market-directing role, with each role having both an internal and an external dimension. This …
The transnationalist US foreign-policy elite in exile? A comparative network analysis of the Trump administration
The presidency of Donald Trump - often framed as a result of a populist revolt against the elites of Washington and Wall Street - and his apparent break with the postwar liberal internationalist foreign-policy elite consensus, has raised fundamental questions about the future of elite power in the USA and the implications for its global role. As established by previous research, America's foreign-policy elite has in the past decades been closely …
US-China relations and the liberal world order: Contending Elites, Colliding Visions
The future of liberal internationalism will be influenced increasingly by the re-emergence of China as a major power on the world stage and by the way the United States is reacting to China's growing influence. In this article, we discern three possible scenarios: one of inevitable conflict, one of gradual co-optation and a hybrid scenario of coexistence. We argue that in order to understand the development of the Sino-US relationship and the som…
US elite power and the rise of ‘statist’ Chinese elites in global markets
Obama’s economic recovery strategy open markets and elite power: Business as usual
Estratégia geopolítica e hegemonia de classe: Para Uma Análise Materialista-Histórica De Política Externa
Este artigo procura estabelecer os fundamentos para uma análise materialistahistórica de política externa. Embora exista uma vasta literatura marxista sobre, especialmente, o imperialismo estadunidense, é pequeno o número de pesquisas empíricas sistematizadas sobre formulação de política externa nessa perspectiva. A maioria das contribuições nessa tradição, incluindo as mais recentes do debate sobre o "novo imperialismo", são geralmente exercício…
American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks: The open door since the end of the Cold War
This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold War to the present, offering an integrated analysis of both continuity and change. The post-Cold War American grand strategy has continued to be oriented to securing an ‘open door’ to US capital around the globe. This book will show that the three different administrations that have been in office in the post-Cold War era have pursued this goal with …
Corporate elite networks and US post-Cold War grand strategy from Clinton to Obama
This article seeks to explain both the continuity and the changes in US grand strategy since the end of the Cold War by adopting a critical political economy approach that focuses on the social origins of grand strategy-making. Systematically seeking to link agency and structure, we analyse how grand strategy-makers operate within given social contexts, which we define in terms of, on the one hand, elite networks within which these actors are emb…
The Limits of Open Door Imperialism and the US State–Capital Nexus
This article analyses the US state–capital nexus at the heart of an American imperialism currently reaching its limits. In a first part we argue that the US state has consistently sought to promote and facilitate the global expansion of US capital, indicating a tight coupling between the two. Indeed, this so-called Open Door imperialism has been shaped and cemented by the strong ties between the foreign policy-making state apparatus and America's…
The Reconfiguration of the Global State–Capital Nexus
Noting an apparent ‘return’ of the state this article analyzes the rearticulation of state–capital relations in the context of the current global crisis. Departing from the notion that capital and state are internally related, we distinguish four roles that the state can play with respect to capital accumulation and on that basis examine to what extent and how the state–capital nexus is reconfigured in both the global South and global North. We a…
The Rebound of the Capitalist State: The Rearticulation of the State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis
With the financial crisis and the shockwaves it has sent through the global system many argue that we are witnessing the end of an era: a simultaneous crisis of neoliberal globalization and a crisi
Varieties of US Post-Cold War Imperialism: Anatomy of a Failed Hegemonic Project and the Future of US Geopolitics
Seeking to explain the changes — within underlying continuities — that have taken place in US geopolitical strategy since the early 2000s, this article analyses the dialectical interplay between political agency — in turn linked to specific social forces — and changing structural conditions within the global political economy. Geopolitical strategy is thus seen as constructed through a network of actors whose practices are shaped by their own soc…
The social purpose of new governance: Lisbon and the limits to legitimacy
The Contradictions of ‘Embedded Neoliberalism’ and Europe’s Multi-level Legitimacy Crisis: The European Project and its Limits
The sudden and unexpected death that the European Constitution met in French and Dutch voting booths in the late spring of 2005, and the post-referendum blues that followed it, brought into the open a legitimacy crisis of the European project that had been looming for years, and that arguably will now deepen with the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty that was intended to replace the failed Constitution. What is in fact a multi-level leg…
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon
An ambitious volume that sets out to analyse the nature, contradictions and limits of neoliberal governance in the EU. The analysis covers the changing geopolitical and geo-economic context, the Lisbo
The Marketisation of European Corporate Control: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
We are entering into a new phase in EU corporate governance.More than ever, our action plan must be focused and based on a solid assessment of actual needs of market players and investors. 1As Charlie McCreevy, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, emphasises, the European Union (EU) is witnessing a transformation of its regulation of corporate governance -that is, those practices that define and reflect the power relations within th…
Theorizing the transnational: A historical materialist approach
Transnational historical materialism: The Amsterdam International Political Economy Project
Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration
This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes
Transnational Class Agency and European Governance: The Case of the European Round Table of Industrialists
This article analyses the political and ideological agency of an emergent European transnational capitalist class in the socioeconomic governance of the European Union (EU) by examining the case of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). It seeks to show that the ERT-as an elite forum mediating the interests and power of the most transnationalise d segments of European capital-has played a significant role in shaping European governance…
Transnationalization and the Restructuring of Europe’s Socioeconomic Order: Social Forces in the Construction of “Embedded Neoliberalism”
(1998). Transnationalization and the Restructuring of Europe’s Socioeconomic Order. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 28, Neoliberal Hegemony and the Political Economy of European Restructuring (I), pp. 12-53
Capital unbound? The transformation of European corporate governance
This article represents a first attempt to analyse the forces at work in the transformation of European corporate space, at both the national and supranational levels. In doing so, it consciously combines a comparative with an international political economy perspective and argues against analyses which minimize the role of domestic institutions and understand the contemporary transformation of European capitalism solely in terms of globalization…
Transnational Class Agency and European Governance: The Case of the European Round Table of Industrialists
This article analyses the political and ideological agency of an emergent European transnational capitalist class in the socioeconomic governance of the European Union (EU) by examining the case of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). It seeks to show that the ERT-as an elite forum mediating the interests and power of the most transnationalise d segments of European capital-has played a significant role in shaping European governance…
The Reconfiguration of the Global State–Capital Nexus
Noting an apparent ‘return’ of the state this article analyzes the rearticulation of state–capital relations in the context of the current global crisis. Departing from the notion that capital and state are internally related, we distinguish four roles that the state can play with respect to capital accumulation and on that basis examine to what extent and how the state–capital nexus is reconfigured in both the global South and global North. We a…
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 crisis has once again brought the role of the state in the capitalist economy to the fore. Rather than viewing this as a ‘return of the state’, this article conceptualises the current dynamic in terms of a reconfiguration of the roles the state plays, distinguishing between a market-creating, a market-correcting, a market-intervening, and a market-directing role, with each role having both an internal and an external dimension. This …
Capital unbound? The transformation of European corporate governance
This article represents a first attempt to analyse the forces at work in the transformation of European corporate space, at both the national and supranational levels. In doing so, it consciously combines a comparative with an international political economy perspective and argues against analyses which minimize the role of domestic institutions and understand the contemporary transformation of European capitalism solely in terms of globalization…
Theorizing the transnational: A historical materialist approach
US-China relations and the liberal world order: Contending Elites, Colliding Visions
The future of liberal internationalism will be influenced increasingly by the re-emergence of China as a major power on the world stage and by the way the United States is reacting to China's growing influence. In this article, we discern three possible scenarios: one of inevitable conflict, one of gradual co-optation and a hybrid scenario of coexistence. We argue that in order to understand the development of the Sino-US relationship and the som…
Varieties of US Post-Cold War Imperialism: Anatomy of a Failed Hegemonic Project and the Future of US Geopolitics
Seeking to explain the changes — within underlying continuities — that have taken place in US geopolitical strategy since the early 2000s, this article analyses the dialectical interplay between political agency — in turn linked to specific social forces — and changing structural conditions within the global political economy. Geopolitical strategy is thus seen as constructed through a network of actors whose practices are shaped by their own soc…
Transnationalization and the Restructuring of Europe’s Socioeconomic Order: Social Forces in the Construction of “Embedded Neoliberalism”
(1998). Transnationalization and the Restructuring of Europe’s Socioeconomic Order. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 28, Neoliberal Hegemony and the Political Economy of European Restructuring (I), pp. 12-53
Corporate elite networks and US post-Cold War grand strategy from Clinton to Obama
This article seeks to explain both the continuity and the changes in US grand strategy since the end of the Cold War by adopting a critical political economy approach that focuses on the social origins of grand strategy-making. Systematically seeking to link agency and structure, we analyse how grand strategy-makers operate within given social contexts, which we define in terms of, on the one hand, elite networks within which these actors are emb…
The Marketisation of European Corporate Control: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
We are entering into a new phase in EU corporate governance.More than ever, our action plan must be focused and based on a solid assessment of actual needs of market players and investors. 1As Charlie McCreevy, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, emphasises, the European Union (EU) is witnessing a transformation of its regulation of corporate governance -that is, those practices that define and reflect the power relations within th…
US elite power and the rise of ‘statist’ Chinese elites in global markets
The transnationalist US foreign-policy elite in exile? A comparative network analysis of the Trump administration
The presidency of Donald Trump - often framed as a result of a populist revolt against the elites of Washington and Wall Street - and his apparent break with the postwar liberal internationalist foreign-policy elite consensus, has raised fundamental questions about the future of elite power in the USA and the implications for its global role. As established by previous research, America's foreign-policy elite has in the past decades been closely …
The social purpose of new governance: Lisbon and the limits to legitimacy
The Limits of Open Door Imperialism and the US State–Capital Nexus
This article analyses the US state–capital nexus at the heart of an American imperialism currently reaching its limits. In a first part we argue that the US state has consistently sought to promote and facilitate the global expansion of US capital, indicating a tight coupling between the two. Indeed, this so-called Open Door imperialism has been shaped and cemented by the strong ties between the foreign policy-making state apparatus and America's…
Obama’s economic recovery strategy open markets and elite power: Business as usual
Transnational historical materialism: The Amsterdam International Political Economy Project
Estratégia geopolítica e hegemonia de classe: Para Uma Análise Materialista-Histórica De Política Externa
Este artigo procura estabelecer os fundamentos para uma análise materialistahistórica de política externa. Embora exista uma vasta literatura marxista sobre, especialmente, o imperialismo estadunidense, é pequeno o número de pesquisas empíricas sistematizadas sobre formulação de política externa nessa perspectiva. A maioria das contribuições nessa tradição, incluindo as mais recentes do debate sobre o "novo imperialismo", são geralmente exercício…
The Rebound of the Capitalist State: The Rearticulation of the State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis
With the financial crisis and the shockwaves it has sent through the global system many argue that we are witnessing the end of an era: a simultaneous crisis of neoliberal globalization and a crisi
Transnationalization and the Restructuring of Europe’s Socioeconomic Order: Social Forces in the Construction of “Embedded Neoliberalism”
(1998). Transnationalization and the Restructuring of Europe’s Socioeconomic Order. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 28, Neoliberal Hegemony and the Political Economy of European Restructuring (I), pp. 12-53
Capital unbound? The transformation of European corporate governance
This article represents a first attempt to analyse the forces at work in the transformation of European corporate space, at both the national and supranational levels. In doing so, it consciously combines a comparative with an international political economy perspective and argues against analyses which minimize the role of domestic institutions and understand the contemporary transformation of European capitalism solely in terms of globalization…
Transnational Class Agency and European Governance: The Case of the European Round Table of Industrialists
This article analyses the political and ideological agency of an emergent European transnational capitalist class in the socioeconomic governance of the European Union (EU) by examining the case of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). It seeks to show that the ERT-as an elite forum mediating the interests and power of the most transnationalise d segments of European capital-has played a significant role in shaping European governance…
Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration
This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes
Theorizing the transnational: A historical materialist approach
Transnational historical materialism: The Amsterdam International Political Economy Project
The Marketisation of European Corporate Control: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
We are entering into a new phase in EU corporate governance.More than ever, our action plan must be focused and based on a solid assessment of actual needs of market players and investors. 1As Charlie McCreevy, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, emphasises, the European Union (EU) is witnessing a transformation of its regulation of corporate governance -that is, those practices that define and reflect the power relations within th…
The Contradictions of ‘Embedded Neoliberalism’ and Europe’s Multi-level Legitimacy Crisis: The European Project and its Limits
The sudden and unexpected death that the European Constitution met in French and Dutch voting booths in the late spring of 2005, and the post-referendum blues that followed it, brought into the open a legitimacy crisis of the European project that had been looming for years, and that arguably will now deepen with the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty that was intended to replace the failed Constitution. What is in fact a multi-level leg…
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance: From Lisbon to Lisbon
An ambitious volume that sets out to analyse the nature, contradictions and limits of neoliberal governance in the EU. The analysis covers the changing geopolitical and geo-economic context, the Lisbo
The social purpose of new governance: Lisbon and the limits to legitimacy
Varieties of US Post-Cold War Imperialism: Anatomy of a Failed Hegemonic Project and the Future of US Geopolitics
Seeking to explain the changes — within underlying continuities — that have taken place in US geopolitical strategy since the early 2000s, this article analyses the dialectical interplay between political agency — in turn linked to specific social forces — and changing structural conditions within the global political economy. Geopolitical strategy is thus seen as constructed through a network of actors whose practices are shaped by their own soc…
The Limits of Open Door Imperialism and the US State–Capital Nexus
This article analyses the US state–capital nexus at the heart of an American imperialism currently reaching its limits. In a first part we argue that the US state has consistently sought to promote and facilitate the global expansion of US capital, indicating a tight coupling between the two. Indeed, this so-called Open Door imperialism has been shaped and cemented by the strong ties between the foreign policy-making state apparatus and America's…
The Reconfiguration of the Global State–Capital Nexus
Noting an apparent ‘return’ of the state this article analyzes the rearticulation of state–capital relations in the context of the current global crisis. Departing from the notion that capital and state are internally related, we distinguish four roles that the state can play with respect to capital accumulation and on that basis examine to what extent and how the state–capital nexus is reconfigured in both the global South and global North. We a…
The Rebound of the Capitalist State: The Rearticulation of the State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis
With the financial crisis and the shockwaves it has sent through the global system many argue that we are witnessing the end of an era: a simultaneous crisis of neoliberal globalization and a crisi
Corporate elite networks and US post-Cold War grand strategy from Clinton to Obama
This article seeks to explain both the continuity and the changes in US grand strategy since the end of the Cold War by adopting a critical political economy approach that focuses on the social origins of grand strategy-making. Systematically seeking to link agency and structure, we analyse how grand strategy-makers operate within given social contexts, which we define in terms of, on the one hand, elite networks within which these actors are emb…
American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks: The open door since the end of the Cold War
This book presents a novel analysis of how US grand strategy has evolved from the end of the Cold War to the present, offering an integrated analysis of both continuity and change. The post-Cold War American grand strategy has continued to be oriented to securing an ‘open door’ to US capital around the globe. This book will show that the three different administrations that have been in office in the post-Cold War era have pursued this goal with …
US elite power and the rise of ‘statist’ Chinese elites in global markets
Obama’s economic recovery strategy open markets and elite power: Business as usual
Estratégia geopolítica e hegemonia de classe: Para Uma Análise Materialista-Histórica De Política Externa
Este artigo procura estabelecer os fundamentos para uma análise materialistahistórica de política externa. Embora exista uma vasta literatura marxista sobre, especialmente, o imperialismo estadunidense, é pequeno o número de pesquisas empíricas sistematizadas sobre formulação de política externa nessa perspectiva. A maioria das contribuições nessa tradição, incluindo as mais recentes do debate sobre o "novo imperialismo", são geralmente exercício…
US-China relations and the liberal world order: Contending Elites, Colliding Visions
The future of liberal internationalism will be influenced increasingly by the re-emergence of China as a major power on the world stage and by the way the United States is reacting to China's growing influence. In this article, we discern three possible scenarios: one of inevitable conflict, one of gradual co-optation and a hybrid scenario of coexistence. We argue that in order to understand the development of the Sino-US relationship and the som…
The transnationalist US foreign-policy elite in exile? A comparative network analysis of the Trump administration
The presidency of Donald Trump - often framed as a result of a populist revolt against the elites of Washington and Wall Street - and his apparent break with the postwar liberal internationalist foreign-policy elite consensus, has raised fundamental questions about the future of elite power in the USA and the implications for its global role. As established by previous research, America's foreign-policy elite has in the past decades been closely …
The state in global capitalism before and after the Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 crisis has once again brought the role of the state in the capitalist economy to the fore. Rather than viewing this as a ‘return of the state’, this article conceptualises the current dynamic in terms of a reconfiguration of the roles the state plays, distinguishing between a market-creating, a market-correcting, a market-intervening, and a market-directing role, with each role having both an internal and an external dimension. This …
The end of open door globalism: How Biden and the democratic foreign policy elite consolidated trump’s remaking of American grand strategy
President Biden promised to reverse ‘America First’ foreign policy and restore US global leadership, yet his administration largely continued Trump’s shift away from the long-standing grand strategy of Open Door Globalism. While partially reembracing diplomacy and alliances, Biden and the Democratic foreign policy elite consolidated the Trumpian shift away from (neo-)liberal expansionism to a strategy of economic nationalism and expansive competi…
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