The Age of Political Disincorporation: Geo-Capitalist Conflict and the Politics of Authoritarian Statism

IF 2 2区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Contemporary Asia Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI:10.1080/00472336.2022.2092535

Kanishka Jayasuriya

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Abstract This review essay examines two recent volumes on the clash between the USA and China: Clash of Empires by Hung (2022) and Trade Wars are Class Wars by Klein and Pettis (2020). These volumes make a significant contribution to our understanding of the current strategic competition between the US and China. They have the virtue of moving beyond the sterile international relations perspectives and locating these conflicts within the broader structure of capitalist transformation. The framework of inter-imperial conflict is found useful in understanding the conflict between the USA and China. However, a serious lacuna of these approaches is their economism which neglects the political effects of emerging inter-imperial rivalry or modes of geo-capitalist engagement. In particular, this essay argues that the key effects are found in the transformation of the political forms of the state that have enabled the rise of radical right-wing forces and new forms of authoritarian rule. In this new geo-capitalist era, there is likely to be a reassertion of the national state in various new or post-neoliberal guises but such forms are likely to take on the characteristic of deeply coercive authoritarian statism or even post fascism.

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政治解体的时代:地缘资本主义冲突与威权国家主义政治

摘要这篇综述文章考察了最近两卷关于美中冲突的文章：洪的《帝国冲突》（2022）和克莱因和佩蒂斯的《贸易战是阶级战争》（2020）。这些书对我们理解当前美中之间的战略竞争做出了重大贡献。它们的优点是超越了乏味的国际关系视角，将这些冲突置于资本主义转型的更广泛结构中。帝国间冲突的框架对于理解美国和中国之间的冲突是有用的。然而，这些方法的一个严重缺陷是它们的经济主义，忽视了新兴的帝国间竞争或地缘资本主义参与模式的政治影响。特别是，本文认为，关键影响在于国家政治形式的转变，这些转变促成了激进右翼势力和新形式的威权统治的兴起。在这个新的地缘资本主义时代，民族国家很可能会以各种新的或后新自由主义的形式重新确立，但这种形式很可能具有高度强制性的威权国家主义甚至后法西斯主义的特征。

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Journal of Contemporary Asia AREA STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Contemporary Asia is an established refereed publication, it appears quarterly and has done so since 1970. When the journal was established, it was conceived as providing an alternative to mainstream perspectives on contemporary Asian issues. The journal maintains this tradition and seeks to publish articles that deal with the broad problems of economic, political and social development of Asia. Articles on economic development issues, political economy, agriculture, planning, the working class, people"s movements, politics and power, imperialism and empire, international financial institutions, the environment, and economic history are especially welcomed.