Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania

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News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before. This book looks behind the Asia-Pacific curtain: at the new forms of social, economic, and political integration taking place through a global capitalism that is rife with contradictions, inequality, and crisis. We are moved beyond traditional conceptualizations of the inter-state system with its nation-state competition as the core organizing principle of world capitalism and the principal institutional framework that shapes the makeup of global social forces. These important studies examine and debate over how there is a growing transnationality of material (economic) relations in the global era, as well as an emerging transnationality of many social and class relations. How does transnational capitalist class fractions, new middle strata, and labor undergird globalization in Asia and Oceania? How have states and institutions become entwined with such processes? This book provides insight into a field of dynamic change. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Section 1 Introduction 1 Global capitalism and transnational class formation in Asia and Oceania Section 2 Transnational capitalist class 2 Statism and the transnational capitalist class in China 3 Japanese transnational capitalists and Asia–Pacific free trade 4 The rise of China and India and the formation of a transnational capitalist class in the Asia/Oceania region 5 Lean production as a tool of global capitalism in Asia: the transnational capitalist class in action Section 3 Labour and the global economy 6 Global capitalism and the transformation of China’s working class 7 Transnational class formation: a view from below 8 National champions in a global arena: rhetoric and inequality in global capitalism Section 4 Finance and production capital 9 Offshore tax havens: the borderlands of global capitalism 10 Conflicts within transnational finance capital and the motivations of climate-interested investors 11 From client state to rentier state? New compradors, transnational capital, and the internalization of globalizing dynamics in Australia, 1990–2013 Section 5 Transnational dynamics and (under)development 12 Uneven geographies of transnational capitalism in Laos 13 From missionary to new middle-class schooling in the era of global capitalism: dilemmas of inclusive education reform in India 14 From transnational trends to local practices: monitoring social impacts in a Papua New Guinea mining community Section 6 Transnationally oriented elites and the state apparatus 15 Global capitalism, the BRICS, and the transnational state 16 State, capital, and class struggle in Australia: reflections on the global capitalism perspective 17 The regionalization of capital in the patchwork economy and the transnationalization of the subnational state Section 7 Conclusion 18 Global capitalism and its discontents: towards a political economy of the possible Index