Transnational Capital and Class Fractions: The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreword by Gerd Junne
Original sources and acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction – political economy, capital fractions, transnational
class formation: revisiting the Amsterdam School
	Why this book?
	The place of the Amsterdam School
	Does the Amsterdam School qualify as a school?
	The intellectual specificity of the Amsterdam School
	What would make the AS into a true theoretical school?
	Structure of this book
	Notes
	Appendix
	References
PART I: The Amsterdam School: key contributions
	1. The Dutch bourgeoisie between the two world wars (1979)
		Introduction
		Structural changes in Dutch capitalism
		Capital fractions and fractions of the bourgeoisie
		Competition and fractional struggle in the Dutch bourgeoisie in the interwar period
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	2. Class formation at the international level: reflections on the political economy of Atlantic Unity (1979)
		Americanism and Fordism
		Internationalization of capital and internationalization of the bourgeoisie
		Concluding remarks
		Note
		Notes
		References
	3. Finance capital and the crisis in Britain (1980)
		Introduction
		Fractions of capital, finance capital, and financial groups
		Transition between the wars
		Restructuring by the state: the post-war Labour government
		From global power to rejected EEC member
		Wilson’s attempt to cure Britain
		… and Heath’s failure to finish the job
		British finance capital now
		Notes
		References
	4. The international corporate elite (1984)
		The organization of the supervising and executive function in different countries
		Selection of the international corporate elite
		Network characteristics of the international corporate elite
		Types of interlocking directorates
		Summary
		Postscript
		Notes
		References
	5. Transnational class agency and European governance: the case of the European Round Table of Industrialists (2000)
		Transnationalization, capitalist class strategy and European governance
		The ERT: an elite platform for Europe’s transnational capitalist class
		The political agency of the ERT
		The ERT’s evolving strategic project and the relaunching of Europe
		From Europe ’92 to Maastricht
		The ERT’s neoliberal offensive: shaping the discourse of European socioeconomic governance
		The new competitiveness discourse
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Acknowledgements
	6. Asymmetrical regulation and  multidimensional governance in the European Union (2004)
		Multidimensional governance in the European Union
		New constitutionalism and the European Court of Justice
		Private–public partnerships: the European Commission and European business
		The new populism
		Constitutionalizing social policy: the new populism at work
		Concluding remarks
		Postscript
		Notes
		References
PART II: Critical commentaries
	7. Class fractions and hegemonic concepts of control
		Important influences
		A distinctive Amsterdam School?
		Engaging beyond the Amsterdam School
		References
	8. Losing control? The Amsterdam School travels east
		Transnational capital, international organizations and passive revolutions
		Beyond hegemony: challenges to transnational neoliberalism
		Note
		References
	9. The Amsterdam School as a potential source of inspiration for Chinese scholars
		The reception of the AS in China
		China’s global role and new research agendas
		References
	10. Reconsidering the ‘dangerous liaisons’ between China and neoliberalism and its impact in Latin America and Caribbean countries
		References
	11. Saying goodbye? Tracing my itinerary from Amsterdam to Beijing
		Three critical exchanges
		Three strands of research
		References
	12. Reflections on the Amsterdam School and the transnational capitalist class
		References
	13. Alternative perspectives on European integration
		References
	14. Nationalist populism within the Lockean heartland
		Introduction: Locke versus Hobbes
		Capitalist contradictions and the nature of social conflicts
		A new political cleavage in the world of developed capitalism
		References
	15. Out of Amsterdam! Beyond the boundaries of (transnational) capitalist class formation
		Comprehensive concepts of control: going beyond theory
		From the Amsterdam Project to the Amsterdam School myth
		Broadening the Amsterdam Project ontology and overcoming leftwing conservatism
		Towards an emancipatory Amsterdam Project
		References
	16. The Amsterdam School: gender as a blind spot
		Feminist theory and the concept of intersectionality
		Feminist IPE/IR and globalization
		Post-colonial and transnational feminism
		The Amsterdam School: transnational class formation and the Lockean heartland
		Final thoughts
		References
	17. The Amsterdam School, critical realism and the study of ‘deep structures’
		Notes
		References
	18. Confronting global governance after the historical turn in International Relations
		Note
		References
	19. Network analysis and the Amsterdam School: an unfulfilled promise?
		The role of network analysis in the Amsterdam School oeuvre
		Why the Amsterdam School should embrace rigorous network analysis
		Theory trumps empirical analysis?
		It is never too late for a second chance
		References
PART III: The Amsterdam School and the political economy of contemporary capitalism
	20. A transnational class analysis of the current crisis
		Class formation in the geopolitical economy
		Fraction perspectives and politics
		From corporate liberalism to neoliberalism
		From systemic to predatory neoliberalism and crisis
		The epochal shift within neoliberalism after 1991
		Perpetuating the crisis under the auspices of money-dealing capital
		Authoritarian oligarchic rivalry
		References
	21. Putting the Amsterdam School in its place
		Introduction
		The Amsterdam School and other regulation schools
		European integration
		The Amsterdam project in international political economy and transnational historical materialism
		Neoliberalism
		Philosophical and theoretical considerations
		Distinctive features of the Amsterdam School
		With and beyond the Amsterdam School
		Three areas for further conceptual deepening
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
Index