The State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis

Bastiaan van Apeldoorn. is Reader in International Relations at VU University Amsterdam. His research focuses on the link between state and social power within the changing global political economy. He is the author of multiple books amongst which Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration (Routledge, 2002) and (with Naná de Graaff) American Grand Strategy and Corporate Elite Networks (Routledge, forthcoming). Naná de Graaff is Lecturer in International Relations at VU University Amsterdam. Her main research interests are geopolitics and global governance of energy, corporate elite networks and US foreign policy. Recent publications have appeared in e.g. European Journal of International Relations, International Journal of Comparative Sociology and Global Networks. Henk W. Overbeek is Professor of International Relations at VU University Amsterdam. His current interests are China’s rise and the European financial crisis. His most recent (co-edited) books are Neoliberalism in Crisis (Palgrave) and Globalisation and European Integration (Routledge). Recent articles appeared in Globalizations and The International Spectator.

1. The Rebound of the Capitalist State: The Rearticulation of the State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis 2. The Reconfiguration of the Global State–Capital Nexus 3. After Neoliberalism? Brazil, India, and China in the Global Economic Crisis 4. Is the East Still Red? The Contender State and Class Struggles in China 5. Political Capitalism and the Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds 6. The Hybridization of the State–Capital Nexus in the Global Energy Order 7. Global Environmental Politics and the Imperial Mode of Living: Articulations of State–Capital Relations in the Multiple Crisis 8. The Mexican Debtfare State: Dispossession, Micro-Lending, and the Surplus Population 9. Anatomy of a ‘Critical Friendship’: Organized Labour and the European State Formation 10. The Limits of Open Door Imperialism and the US State–Capital Nexus 11. Imagined Double Movements: Progressive Thought and the Specter of Neoliberal Populism