Intro; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Dedication page; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: why geopolitical economy?; Getting to geopolitical economy; Why geopolitical economy matters politically; The plan of the book; 2 The materiality of nations; The liberal nineteenth century?; Free trade and protection in classical political economy; Imperialism in the mirror of revolution; The thirty years' crisis; 3 The US imperial career; Imperial republic; Thwarted new imperialism; Imperial mimesis; Dominance through destruction; The United States is willing
Second war, second chanceBretton Woods: dominance over internationalism; 4 Ambition and realities; From world war to cold war; Convertibility and the Triffin dilemma; The confidence game; The Camelot economy; Mounting difficulties; The international financial intermediation hypothesis (IFIH); Special drawing rights (SDRs): a foiled Plan B; The dollar in the last ditch; 5 The retrospection of hegemony stability theory; Varieties of HST; From declinism to renewalism; Cosmopolitan Marxism; Brenner's geopolitical economy of postwar capitalism; 6 Renewal?; Nixon's insouciance?
Carter's cooperationReagan's restoration?; The dispensable nation at the end of history; 7 Globalization?; Clinton's choices; From Reichian globalization to Stiglitzian globalization; Centrifugal finance; Centripetal finance; The geopolitical economy of globalization; 8 Empire?; The imperial economy; The bubble of militarist hubris; The real estate bubble: second time as farce?; The housing bubble gets into its stride; The sub-prime phase; Descent into crisis; Obama's change; 9 Conclusion: The multipolar moment; The life and strange afterlife of single-power dominance; The multipolar future
Summary
Radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis
