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The push to preserve AM radio does not justify halting technological advancement or ignoring consumer preference.
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Introduction Historically, the two major recurring macroeconomic imbalances of the Greek economy are related to the twin deficits in the fiscal and the current accounts. The fiscal balance and the current account balance have been persistently negative almost throughout the history of modern Greece. Consequently, the twin deficits have been associated with long periods of … Continued

Author Sergei Chuprinin teases out historical parallels in his book, Thaw: Characters, which explores the relative freedoms enjoyed under the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

The conjucture of the first few decades of the twenty-first century witnessed Alex Callinicos usefully mapping the contours of imperialism as set out in his pivotal book Imperialism and Global Political Economy. As somewhat of a successor text, this is now accompanied by The New Age of Catastrophe that seeks to address today's conjuncture of the multidimensional crisis (or polycrisis), the conditions of which are situated as immanent to capitalism as a totality. The creativity of Imperialism and Global Political Economy flowed from Callinicos offering an innovative reading of Nikolai Bukharin to propose a theory of imperialism at the intersection of two logics of power: capitalistic and territorial, or two forms of competition, economic and geopolitical. The book bears repeated revisiting. Indeed, I have done so recently in an article for the pages of International Affairs (see 'Mainstreaming Marxism', International Affairs 99: 3, 2023). There I demonstrate how unique Marxist approaches to both the structural theory of anarchy (drawing from Nikolai Bukharin) and racial capitalism (drawing from C.L.R. James) have been silenced by mainstream imitators (namely, Kenneth Waltz and E.H. Carr). There is also much wider engagement with Callinicos' theorising on capitalism and the state-system in Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-authored with Andreas Bieler.

As an 'antechamber' to the present, the Introduction and Chapter 1 of The New Age of Catastrophe offers a theoretical framing of the argument by recovering and reasserting a discussion of totality as a category in order to overcome the atomisation and isolation-effect of capitalism. Drawing from Lukács and others the method of totality is legitimised in order to constitute capitalism as a comprehensive system of multiple mediations rather than as a set of separate, independent, isolated categories and facts. As Callinicos wonderfully puts it, 'even the best mainstream scholarship tends to fragment the totality' (p. 8). This reader was left wanting more on the methodological standard of totality as emblematic of a dialectical critique of the slicing-up and fragmentation of knowledge by mainstream perspectives.
In The New Age of Catastrophe Callinicos endeavours to engage with the developing totality of the crisis of capitalism through a set of conjunctural moments that encompass the destruction of the biosphere (concentrating on the metabolic rift with nature); economic stagnation (converging in the tendency for the rate of profit to fall); geopolitical conflict (focusing on inter-imperialist rivalry); political reaction (addressing contemporary right-wing populism); and ideological contestation (questioning gender and race as intersecting or interweaving forms of agency with class antagonisms). The book offers individual chapters on each of these five moments in the present conjuncture of the multidimensional crisis of capitalism.
The main theme to pick up on for the rest of this review is the recognition of the conjuncture as a fusion of different moments of crisis within the totality of capitalism and how contemporary right-wing populism and far-right politics is treated in the book. Throughout The New Age of Catastrophe the long-term trend of neoliberal authoritarianism is addressed, whether it be through some of the earlier work on authoritarian [...]
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A society with credible institutions would allow ordinary citizens to interrogate unexplained wealth. Seeing corrupt public officials placed behind bars provides closure to the story of accountability. But this is not the Philippine society. We turn to myths, urban legends, and rumours to make sense of suspicious situations because we cannot count on our institutions … Continued

We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades

Just over 20 years ago, Spanish naval personnel operating in the Arabian Sea intercepted a merchant ship sailing from North Korea to the port of Aden. Acting on intelligence from their US counterparts, the interdiction ...

Over the last fifteen years, EU leaders have frequently resorted to emergency measures in response to periods of crisis. But while these measures may have helped bring order to unstable situations, have they come at a cost for the EU's legitimacy? Jonathan White argues that instead of bolstering the EU's fire-fighting capacity, we would be better […]
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Security has always been one of the most complex and critical issues for the EU. After decades of remarkable success in promoting peace, stability and prosperity on a continent historically marked by conflict and division, the EU's security landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years in the face of evolving security threats and changing global dynamics.
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Perhaps the reversal of a number of favorable post-war trends will usher in a period of labor shortage and economic scarcity. However, it is equally plausible that today's burst in economically disruptive technology will give rise to a situation of excess labor supply, falling wages, and economic plenty. A dose of humility is required before making long-term economic predictions.
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Over the last fifteen years, EU leaders have frequently resorted to emergency measures in response to periods of crisis. But while these measures may have helped bring order to unstable situations, have they come at a cost for the EU's legitimacy? Jonathan White argues that instead of bolstering the EU's fire-fighting capacity, we would be better […]
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Future real great power conflict is unlikely to resemble the world wars of the twentieth century. Instead of high-intensity wars, rivals may have little choice but to rely primarily on proxy, information, political, and economic warfare while avoiding large-scale conventional combat.

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By Jonathan White



"Instead of devising an emergency script, the task is to design a 'normal' regime that is able to handle extreme circumstances."
In today's volatile world, the ambitions attached to the EU have never been higher. French President Emmanuel Macron calls for the construction of 'European sovereignty' as a way to preserve European identity, shape the continent's

As the world of artificial intelligence unfolds, and with it the ever-increasing power of a technological elite, Kurt Vonnegut's "Player Piano" merits revisiting—as both a guide and a warning.
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"Die Tradition der Unterdrückten belehrt uns darüber, daß der Ausnahmezustand in dem wir leben, die Regel ist. Wir müssen zu einem Begriff der Geschichte kommen, der dem entspricht." Walter Benjamin, Über den Begriff der Geschichte, These VIII. On March 2022, a few days after the first strikes of the Russian army on Ukrainian territory began, […]
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