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>Subject: Roundtable on the state and globalisation: Peter Gowan, Leo
>Panitch, Martin Shaw (please circulate)
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:49:06 +0100
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> T H E S T A T E , G L O B A L I S A T I O N A N D T H E N E
>W I M P E R I A L I S M P e t e r G o w a n , L e o P a n i t c
>h , M a r t i n S h a w A Roundtable organised by Historical
>Materialism Brunei Gallery Room G3 SOAS, Thornaugh Street, London Monday
>9 July 5:00pm Much of recent critical social theory has been concerned
>with the relationship between the state as a political form and the
>socio-economic processes associated to capitalist globalisation. Whilst
>for some globalisation appears as the 21st century incarnation of
>classical imperialism, for others it heralds the promise of a global
> democratic revolution . This roundtable brings together three
>prominent scholars who have recently shed light on the relationship
>between the state and globalisation from different disciplinary and
>political perspectives. The aim of the discussion is to both elucidate
>analytically what is at play in these processes, and to consider the
>political consequences - particularly for the Left of the interface
>between globalisation and the state. Among the questions we shall seek
>to address are: what is globalisation, and what is the place of the modern
>state in this process? How is globalisation transforming power relations
>in the contemporary world? Can the processes of globalisation be
>harnessed to projects of radical social transformation? What is the
>relationship between globalisation and classical capitalist
>imperialism of the turn of the 20th century? What conceptual challenges
>do these processes pose for critical theory, and Marxism in particular?
>Speakers: Peter Gowan, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of North
>London. Author of The Global Gamble: Washington s Bid for World
>Dominance (Verso 1999). Winner of Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, 2000.
>Leo Panitch, Professor of Politics, York University, Canada. Co-Editor of
>The Socialist Register and author with Colin Leys of The End of
>Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour (Verso, 2001).
>Martin Shaw, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex.
>Author of Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished
>Revolution (Cambridge, 2000). All Welcome All queries: [log in to unmask]
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