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© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. We may be witnessing the emergence of a new ‘state capitalist’ normal, a term this Forum proposes to problematise in its geopolitical dimensions. The growing prevalence of state-sponsored entities (encompassing state enterprises, policy banks, and sovereign wealth funds) as leading vehicles of economic activity is a defining feature of our times. This reassertion of state authority is altering configurations of state and corporate power across the world economy while generating a multiplicity of geopolitical tensions. This Forum reflects upon what it means, theoretically, methodologically, and politically, to articulate a geopolitics of contemporary state capitalism. It brings together interventions which draw on various theoretical approaches, including critical political geography, historical materialism, geographical political economy, and power structure research, in order to probe into the multiple spatialities at the core of contemporary state capitalism. The contributions aim to destabilise the assumptions and taken-for-granted ideas which have largely framed the debate thus far, including problematic binaries such as liberal/illiberal, state/market, commercial/geopolitical logics, and realist narratives of interstate power-maximising behaviour. Studying the (geo)political re-organisation of global capitalism requires moving beyond the castigation of a ‘rogue’ state capitalism as well as narratives of a clash between rival political-economic models, and disassembling the category state capitalism.
Author(s): Alami I, Dixon AD, Gonzalez-Vicente R, Babic M, Seung-Ook Lee, Medby IA, Graaff ND
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Geopolitics
Year: 2021
Volume: 27
Issue: 3
Pages: 995-1023
Online publication date: 29/07/2021
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 11/08/2021
ISSN (print): 1465-0045
ISSN (electronic): 1557-3028
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1924943
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2021.1924943
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