{"product_id":"taking-back-control-isbn-9781839767296","title":"Taking Back Control?","description":"\u003cb\u003e“This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time…In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity.” \u003cbr\u003e—Christopher Caldwell, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaking Back Control? \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the ongoing tug of war between the forces of globalism and those of democracy, between centralisation and decentralisation, and between the unifica­tion and the differentiation of states and state systems. On this territory are fought the defining geopolitical struggles of our era, which will determine the advance of global capitalism and shape the prospects for its social and democratic regulation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe neoliberal revolution of the 1990s gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the centralisation and unification of states and state systems. This was the “New World Order” proclaimed by the United States in the wake of the Soviet collapse. But it proved to be ungovernable by democratic means. Instead, it was ruled through a combina­tion of technocracy and mercatocracy, failing spectacularly to provide for political stability, social legitimacy, and international peace. Marked by a series of economic and institutional crises, hyperglobalisation called forward various kinds of political countermovements that rebelled against and ultimately stopped the upward trans­fer of state authority in its tracks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the possibility for states and the societies they govern to take back control over their collective fate, Wolfgang Streeck formulates a renewed theory of the state in political economy. Drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi and John Maynard Keynes, he discusses the potential outlines of a state system that allows for democratic governance within and peaceful cooperation between sovereign nation­states.Introduction: Political Economy beyond Globalism: States, War, and Capitalist Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The Demise of Centralism\u003cbr\u003e1. Global Politics and Regional Planning\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Neoliberal Interlude\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Critical Moment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e2. The Demise of the New World Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobalisation and Hyperglobalisation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New European Order: The European Union\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForever Unfinished\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e3. Stuck: Between Globalism and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Next? A Tug of War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeft Globalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCulture versus Unculture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemocracy as a De-proletarianised Value System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e4. Breaking the Deadlock: Democracy and the\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitics of Scale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEconomic Crisis and State Systems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMegalomania?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecomposing Complexity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: After Three Decades\u003cbr\u003e5. A Dual Crisis I: Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStagnation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Neoliberal Crisis Sequence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Central Bank State as the Last Stage of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeynes from the Ashes?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebt without Remorse?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Emergency State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClueless\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Nothing Else\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e6. A Dual Crisis II: Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates between Democracy and Globalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobalism against Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemocracy against Globalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePost-globalist Democracy?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePart III: States and State Systems\u003cbr\u003e7. Integration and Differentiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGibbon: Unity or Diversity?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Contemporary State System: A Survey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses of the Nation-State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStatehood and the Constitutive Particularism of\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Socialisation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcursus I: Scotland and Catalonia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcursus II: Germany in Comparison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Taking Back Control’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfederation or Empire?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dimensions of States and State Systems, and their Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e8. The European Union: From Neoliberal to Geopolitical Integration\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurope as Battleground and Place of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBefore Ukraine: Critical Fault-Lines, Impending Failure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore Unity through Less Unity?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntegration by Militarisation?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Ukraine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiabilities Old and New\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Superstate and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning from Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Beyond Globalist Centralisation\u003cbr\u003e9. Mega-statism and Its Limitations\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal Globalisation:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEight Theses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobalisation and Hyperglobalisation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Market Economy, National Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnity from Above: Global Governance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Governance as Technocratic Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnother Plan A\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Governance as Liberal Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCOVID: The (Long-Hidden) Costs of Globalisation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCOVID and the Fiscal Crisis of the State: A Conjecture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e10. Small-Statism and Its Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon: Decomposing Complexity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeynes: National Self-Sufficiency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeglobalisation and Alternative Development\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Polycentrism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisentanglement: COVID and the Supply Chains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Keynes-Polanyi State: National, Sovereign, Democratic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetter Smaller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Economic Patriotism’: Globalism and Back\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Crisis, Small States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Question of Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemocratic Particularism and Global Collective Goods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCooperative, Not Imperial: A Prospect of a New International Order\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"The most interesting person around today on the subject of the relationship between democracy and capitalism.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Bickerton, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most interesting person on the most urgent subject of our times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Aditya Chakrabortty, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this wild ride of a must-read book, Wolfgang Streeck clarifies the depth of current crises in both capitalism and democracy, offers a detailed condemnation of the disastrous post-1989 unipolar neoliberal politics of enforced hyper-globalization, and suggests his own rules and structure for a more diverse, democratic, and peaceful state system we might begin to build, but that a long-tired politics and now mindless militarism still keep from public view.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joel Rogers, co-author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Society: How it Really Works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTaking Back Control? \u003c\/i\u003eprovides both a brilliant diagnosis of what has gone wrong with globalization and a persuasive prescription for renewing democratic governance. Wolfgang Streeck synthesizes arguments from politics, economics, and sociology in a book that deserves a place besides those of his 20th century intellectual forebears—Karl Polanyi and John Maynard Keynes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Fred Block, author of \u003ci\u003eCapitalism: The Future of an Illusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To me, one crucial question emerges from this masterclass in contemporary political economy: does the current breakdown of a neoliberalism underpinned by US hegemony portend a regression to fascism and war as in the 1930s, or is there a more hopeful prospect? Drawing on Dani Rodrik's critique of hyper-globalisation and the democratic alternative offered by the 'Keynes-Polanyi state', Wolfgang Streeck argues compellingly for a de-globalised world polity founded on a humane economic nationalism. 'The nation state', he claims, 'is the only institution capable of asserting the primacy of society over capitalism'. Agree or disagree, Streeck offers a radical and necessary challenge to conventional wisdom.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Robert Skidelsky, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Machine Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTaking Back Control?\u003c\/i\u003e combines a brilliant diagnosis of the political crisis of neoliberal globalization with a tough-minded case for “small-statism” as our best chance for a democratic-socialist resolution. Left internationalists may not like that conclusion but cannot ignore it. Streeck’s challenging new book raises the scale-of-democracy debate to a new level.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nancy Fraser, author of \u003ci\u003eCannibal Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Arguably the most thoughtful critic of globalisation\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Martin Wolf, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTaking Back Control?\u003c\/i\u003e helped me think of what a politics beyond liberalism could look like and expanded my sense of what is possible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John-Baptiste Oduor, \u003ci\u003eGranta, Books of the Year 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher Caldwell, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[E]ssential for any scholar seeking to make sense of a range of current trends: the ongoing retreat from 1990s-style globalization, the crisis of liberal democracy, and the rapid return of hot wars, cold wars, and trade wars to a world that just yesterday claimed to have overcome them all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Singh Grewal, \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Streeck’s book has already done much of the heavy lifting for the necessary political and economic discussion that lies before us.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mathew D. Rose, \u003ci\u003eBrave New Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWolfgang Streeck\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Research Associate and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He is a Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301940089061,"sku":"NP9781839767296","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781839767296.jpg?v=1767737736","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/taking-back-control-isbn-9781839767296","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}