The State, Empire and Imperialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2305550 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Roberts (0000-0003-3288-9505, Brunel University of London, corresponding author), John Roberts (0000-0002-0059-430X, Brunel University,) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 833-858 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0011392110376028 |
| OpenAlex | W2146336015 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 90 |
This article aims to develop a Marxist account to explain the more informal practices of imperialism today. In this respect the article agrees with those Marxists who argue that capitalists and politicians have sought to impose the hegemonic economic project of financial neoliberalism across the globe. However, unlike some Marxist accounts which tend to explore imperialism primarily through socioeconomic relations, this article argues that financial neoliberal hegemony is achieved through social, political and ideological mechanisms as well. This is to see and understand capitalism as a complex, interconnected whole in which the way that capital accrues profits is through the exploitation, governance and regulation of living labour, which itself requires social, political and ideological mechanisms in place to do so. The article argues that in contemporary imperialism these 'non-economic' forms of regulation have often been embedded in seemingly non-imperialist and more informal types of governance that some have identified as 'Empire'. The article suggests that these governance mechanisms have extended imperialist financial domination of the US state through the political projects of neoliberalism and workfarism
Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Empire · Hegemony · Ideology · Marxist philosophy · Neoclassical economics · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism
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Neoliberalising Cambodia
Managing Climate Insecurity by Ensuring Continuous Capital Accumulation
Contested meanings, myths and hyperimages of the apocalypse
Judith Butler, the Bakhtin Circle and Free Speech
Open Marxism, social class, and social and political movements
Soft power and corporate imperialism
The Competent Public Sphere
Financialization and the World Economy
The Free Economy and the Strong State
Planet of Slums
Social Capital Versus Social Theory
Can Anyone Hear Us
Global Civil Society
The Great Illusion
Empire, Imperialism, and Contemporary American Global Power
Governing through empowerment
We have had nothing for so long that we don't know what to ask for’
US Financial Power in Crisis
Reflections on Empire, Imperialism and United States Hegemony
The Passage from Imperialism to Empire
From Financial Crisis to World-Slump
Financialised Capitalism
Securing Humans in a Dangerous World
The Politics of Public–Private Partnerships
Global Governance, State Agency and Competitiveness
Empire and its discontents
Post-Fordist governance of nature
Violence and Humanitarianism
Power and agency in the human security framework
Humanitarian Imperialism
Back to Basics
The New Fetishism
The Administrative Presidency, Unilateral Power, and the Unitary Executive Theory
The Visible Hand of Neo-conservative Capitalism
Hollow Hegemony
Homo Economicus Goes to War
Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives
Dematerialising Money? Observations on the Flow of Wealth from Housing to Other Things
Making sense of social citizenship
The trouble with humanitarianism
Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security
Exporting public–private partnerships in healthcare
The Heart of Empire? Theorising US empire in an era of transnational capitalism
Defining morality
Global Governance Campaigning and mdg s
Cargo cult science, armchair empiricism and the idea of violent conflict
Demystifying democratisation
Neoglobalism
Towards a Declining State? The Rise of the Headquarters State
American Foreign Policy as Modern Imperialism
The Millennium Development Goals and Africa
Imbalances of the Global Economy
Voluntary Labor, Responsible Citizenship, and International NGOs
Working for themselves? Capital market intermediaries and present day capitalism
The Crimes of Neo-Liberal Rule in Occupied Iraq
Globalisation, business and British public policy
The ‘New Terrorism
Imperial Liberties
Humanitarianism Transformed
The Return of the State
The Political Economy of Transnational Regimes
A View from the Top
Beyond humanitarian intervention
The moral purpose of US power
Human security and the rise of global therapeutic governance
The problem of peace
Neo-liberalism as creative destruction
Who's making global civil society
Imperialism, Domination, Culture
The New Imperialism? On Continuity and Change in US Foreign Policy
Our Global Neighbourhood
The Commission for Africa
The financialization of the American economy
In No Other Country on Earth
Inequalities of the World
From Max Weber
Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life
The State of Emergency and the Revival of American Imperialism
Beyond Left and Right
Global Civil Society' and the Political Depoliticization of Global Governance
East Asia's Dollars
Market Workfare
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |