Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations. Do countries engage in foreign intervention and "just war" because they feel a responsibility toward the international community? Or are these actions rationalizations for the pursuit of commercial, industrial, financial, and military interests? Around the world, economies, cultures, politics, laws, and nation-states are profoundly shaped by imperialism, both historical and contemporary.
Including thirty-four chapters written by academics and experts in the field of international political economy, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism presents comprehensive theoretical, empirical, and historical accounts of economic imperialism from the early modern age to the present. Over the course of three sections, the Handbook looks at the theory and concepts behind the study of imperialism, the international political economy of imperialism, and imperialism in various regions of the world today. In so doing, the Handbook demonstrates the persistence of economic imperialism in today's postcolonial world, and the enduring control wielded by great powers even after the end of formal empire. Moreover, the Handbook reveals how emerging powers are expanding economic control in new geographic and geopolitical contexts, and highlights the significance of economic imperialism in the structures, relations, processes, and ideas that sustain poverty and conflict worldwide.
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
