1st Edition

Transnational Capital and Class Fractions The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered

Edited By Bob Jessop, Henk Overbeek Copyright 2019
324 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School’s (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics. Contending that politics in advanced capitalist countries takes place in a fundamentally transnationalized space in which the distinction between ‘domestic’... Read more

Introduction - Political economy, capital fractions, transnational class formation: The intellectual pedigree of the Amsterdam School

Henk Overbeek

 

Part I

The Amsterdam School: Key contributions

1 The Dutch bourgeoisie between the two world wars (1979)

Ries Bode

2 Class formation at the international level (1979)

Kees Van Der Pijl

3 Finance capital and the crisis in Britain (1980)

Henk Overbeek

4 The international corporate elite (1982)

Meindert Fennema

5 Transnational class agency and European governance: The case of the European Round Table of Industrialists (2000)

Bastiaan Van Apeldoorn

6 Asymmetrical regulation and multidimensional governance in the European Union (2004)

Otto Holman

 

Part II

Critical commentaries

7 Class fractions and hegemonic concepts of control

Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton

8 Losing control? The Amsterdam School travels East

Dorothee Bohle

9 The Amsterdam School and its implications for Chinese scholars

Bai Yunzhen

10 Reconsidering the ‘dangerous liaisons’ between China and neoliberalism and its impact in Latin America and Caribbean countries

Leonardo Ramos and Javier Vadell

11 Saying Goodbye? Tracing my itinerary from Amsterdam to Beijing

Naná De Graaff

12 Reflections on the Amsterdam School and the transnational capitalist class

William K. Carroll

13 Theories of imperialism: Rivalries and unity

Alan Cafruny and Magnus Ryner

14 Nationalist populism within the Lockean heartland

Hans-Jürgen Bieling

15 Out of Amsterdam! Beyond the boundaries of (transnational) capitalist class formation

Laura Horn and Angela Wigger

16 The Amsterdam School: Gender as a blind spot?

Marianne H. Marchand

17 The Amsterdam School, critical realism and the study of ‘deep structures’

Hubert Buch-Hansen and Juan Ignacio Staricco

18 Confronting global governance after the historical turn in IR

Samuel Knafo

19 Network analysis and the Amsterdam School: An unfulfilled promise?

Eelke M. Heemskerk

 

PART III

The Amsterdam School and the Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism

20 A transnational analysis of the current crisis

Kees Van Der Pijl

21 Putting the Amsterdam School in its place

Bob Jessop

Biography

Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre at Lancaster University.

Henk Overbeek is Emeritus Professor of International Relations. He has taught international relations and international political economy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 1999.