Kees Van Der Pijl: 8 books

Concluding the Deutscher Memorial Prize winning trilogy on 'Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy', this is a magisterial historical sociology of International Relations theory.*BR**BR*In The Discipline of Western Supremacy Kees van der Pijl argues that, from the late European Middle Ages,...

With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century—the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational...

The Foreign Encounter In Myth And Religion is the second volume of Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy, a three-volume project which is changing the way we think about international relations.In the first, Deutscher prize-winning volume, Kees van der Pijl introduced the ground-breaking argument...

Westliche Staatsführungen und Finanzorganisationen sind mit einem zunehmenden Glaubwürdigkeitsverlust konfrontiert. Die Friedenshoffnung nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion und der Auflösung des Warschauer Paktes ist längst im Kampfgeschrei der NATO zerstoben. Der Wirtschaftskrise des Jahres 2008...

Since the end of the World War II, nation states have formed regions to give them some protection from the processes of globalization and internationalization. Against this background, the contributors consider the position of China in the processes of regional competitive interdependency. This book...

An exciting and original analysis of the development of capitalist classes, such as the Freemasons, that cross national boundaries in the global political economy. This innovative book focuses on: * an historical perspective on class formation under capitalism and its transnational integration * international...

This book offers a highly original analysis of world events in the light of the Iraq War. It explores the history and development of relations between major countries in the international community and the impact that successive wars and changes in the global political economy have had on the way...

A revealing investigation of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 amid the Ukrainian civil war, emphasising the geopolitical and economic context of the West’s standoff with Russia, the BRICS bloc, and the struggles over the EU’s energy supply.