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Author Desai, Radhika, 1963- author.

Title Capitalism, coronavirus and war : a geopolitical economy / Radhika Desai.

Publication Info. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Rethinking globalizations
Rethinking globalizations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered, but did not cause, that has been furthered by conflict across the globe. Leading domestically to economic and political breakdown, Covid-19 accelerated the imperial decline in the US-led capitalist world's power, intensifying the tendency to lash out with aggression and militarism, as seen in the US-led West's New Cold War against China and the proxy war against Russia over Ukraine. The geopolitical economy of the decay and crisis of this form of capitalism suggests that the struggle with socialism that has long shaped the fate of capitalism has reached a tipping point. The author argues that mainstream and progressive forces take capitalism's longevity for granted, misunderstand its historical dynamics and deny its formative bond with imperialism. Only a theoretically and historically accurate account of capitalism's dynamics and historical trajectory, which this book provides, can explain its current failures and predicament. It also reveals why, though the pandemic - by revealing capitalism's obscene inequality and shocking debility - prompted the most serious critiques of capitalism to emerge in decades, hopes of 'building back better' were so quickly dashed. This book sheds searching light on the dominant narratives that have normalised the neoliberal financialised capitalism and the dollar creditocracy dominating the world economy, with even critics unable to link capitalism's neoliberal turn to its financialisation, historical decay, productive debility and international decline. It contends that only by appreciating the seriousness of the crisis and rectifying our understanding of capitalism can progressive forces thwart a future of chaos or authoritarianism and begin the long task of building socialism. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and researchers of International Relations, IPE, comparative politics and global political sociology"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Capitalism -- United States -- History.
Neoliberalism -- United States -- History.
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Militarism -- United States -- History.
Imperialism -- History.
Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst02021810
Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
Militarism. (OCoLC)fst01020839
Neoliberalism. (OCoLC)fst01737382
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Desai, Radhika, 1963- Capitalism, coronavirus and war Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032059518 (DLC) 2022031777
ISBN 9781003200000 (electronic book)
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