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Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts book cover

1st Edition

Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy Exits and Conflicts

By Heikki Patomaki Copyright 2018
154 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Whether we talk about human learning and unlearning, securitization, or political economy, the forces and mechanisms generating both globalization and disintegration are causally efficacious across the world. Thus, the processes that led to the victory of the ‘Leave’ campaign in the June 2016 referendum on UK European Union membership are not simply confined to the United Kingdom, or even Europe.... Read more
  1. Introduction: the world falling apart

  2. Brexit and the causes of European disintegration

  3. EU, Russia and the conflict in Ukraine

  4. Trumponomics and the dynamics of global disintegration

  5. Piketty’s fundamental inequality r > g: the key to understanding and overcoming the causes of disintegration

  6. Conclusion: holoreflexivity and the shape of things to come

Biography

Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Have we arrived to a New World Disorder? Well, the UK is not any more a stabilising power in Europe, and the US has stopped functioning as stabiliser in the global system. Behind these structural changes we find the manyfold failures of neoliberal economics. In the footsteps of Keynes, Polanyi and Habermas, Heikki Patomäki uncovers the causes and dynamics of these complex crises, but also identifies the keys of a progressive project that can save the legacy of enlightenment and democratic politics in Europe, as well as the world system, and help finding the way back to social progress.

- László Andor, Former EU Commissionner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

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