The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism

Zak Cope is a Visiting Researcher at Queen's University Belfast, where he received his PhD in Politics. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. His published books include Dimensions of Prejudice, Divided World Divided Class, and The Wealth of (Some) Nations. Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. He is author of numerous books and articles on labour, migration, and the state. He is editor of the periodical Journal of Labor and Society. His most recent work is Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South.

List of Contributors

1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism
By Zak Cope and Immanuel Ness

PART ONE. THEORY

2. Imperialism and Its Critics: A Brief Conspectus
By Zak Cope

3. Classical Marxist Imperialism Theory: Continuity, Change, and Relevance
By Murray Leigh Noonan

4. Marxist Theories of Imperialism in the Post-Cold War Era
By Efe Can Gürcan

5. Theories of International Trade and Economic Imperialism
By Bill Dunn

6. Capitalism, Imperialism, and Crises
By Shireen Moosvi

7. The Clash of Interpretations: World-Systems Analysis and International Relations Theory
By Chamsy El-Ojelli and Patrick Hayden

PART TWO. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

8. Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Late Capitalism: Capital, Ideology, and Making the World Market
By Toby Carroll

9. Imperialism from the Eleventh Century to the Twenty-First Century
By Amiya Kumar Bagchi

10. Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism
By Sébastien Rioux

11. Development, Underdevelopment, and the North-South Divide
By Kunibert Raffer

12. Global Value Chains and Global Value Transfer
By Susan Newman

13. International Exploitation, Capital Export, and Unequal Exchange
By Jonathan F. Cogliano, Soh Kaneko, Roberto Veneziani, and Naoki Yoshihara

14. Imperialism, Unequal Exchange, and Labour Export
By Raúl Delgado Wise

15. Surplus Labour: Imperialist Legacies and Post-Imperialist Practices
By Christoph Scherrer

16. Locating Agrarian Labour within the Contours of Imperialism: A Historical Review
By Arindam Banerjee

17. Women, Domestic Labor, and Economic Imperialism
By Han Cheng

18. Protecting Water and Forest Resources Against Colonization in the Indigenous Américas
By Macarena Gómez-Barris

19. Imperialism, the Mismeasurement of Poverty, and the Masking of Global Exploitation
By Seth Donnelly

20. Tertiarisation, Financialisation, and Economic Imperialism
By Kalle Blomberg

21. The Hegemony of the Global Exploitation of Humans and Nature: The Imperial Mode of Living
By Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen

22. The Political Economy of Militarism
By Adem Yavuz Elveren

PART THREE. WORLD REGIONS

23. South Asian Economies in Two Imperialist Regimes Between 1950 and 2020
By Vamsi Vakulabharanam

24. Power Competition and Exploitation in Southeast Asia
By Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt

25. The Capitalist World System and Economic Imperialism in East Asia
By Minqi Li

26. Pacific Islands: Sources of Raw Materials
By Marta Gentilucci

27. Extractivism and Resistance in North Africa
By Hamza Hamouchene

28. Railway Imperialisms in East Africa: Laying the Tracks for Exploitation
By Tim Zajontz

29. Southern Africa: A New Geometry of Imperialism
By Ricado Jacobs and William G. Martin

30. Asymmetric Interdependence: North America's Political Economy
By Julián Castro-Rea

31. Colombia and OECD: How Institutional Imperialism Shapes the Global Order and National Development
By Brayan Camilo Rojas and Ernesto Vivares

32. Eastern Europe's Post-Transitional Integration into Western Economic Relations Through Social Labour Recognition
By Ivan Rubinic and Maks Tajnikar

33. Land Grabbing in Southeastern Europe in Historical Context
By Nazif Mandaci

34. Colonial Legacies and Global Networks in Central Asia and the Caucasus
By Brent D. Hierman