ABSTRACT

Since the late 1970s, the spread of Neo-liberalism and the failure of socialist economies and systems in Eastern Europe have resulted in a practically unchallenged hegemony of international capital across the globe. Neo-liberalism is now the dominant ideology, legitimizing the privatisation of state-controlled economies and the substitution of the

chapter 1|27 pages

RESTRUCTURING CAPITAL AND RESTRUCTURING HEGEMONY

Neo-liberalism and the unmaking of the post-war order

chapter 2|30 pages

THE SOVEREIGNTY OF CAPITAL IMPAIRED

Social forces and codes of conduct for multinational corporations

chapter 6|28 pages

TRANSNATIONALISM IN SPAIN

The paradoxes of socialist rule in the 1980s

chapter 7|26 pages

NEO-LIBERALISM IN GERMANY?

The ‘Wende’ in perspective

chapter 9|30 pages

CANADA IN THE CRISIS

Transformations in capital structure and political strategy