Taking back control? States and state systems after globalization.
Wolfgang Streeck is a Senior Research Associate and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He is a Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).
The most interesting person around today on the subject of the
relationship between democracy and capitalism.
*Christopher Bickerton, University of Cambridge*
The most interesting person on the most urgent subject of our
times.
*Guardian*
In this wild ride of a must-read book, Wolfgang Streeck clarifies
the depth of current crises in both capitalism and democracy,
offers a detailed condemnation of the disastrous post-1989 unipolar
neoliberal politics of enforced hyper-globalization, and suggests
his own rules and structure for a more diverse, democratic, and
peaceful state system we might begin to build, but that a
long-tired politics and now mindless militarism still keep from
public view.
*Joel Rogers, co-author of American Society: How it Really
Works*
Taking Back Control? provides both a brilliant diagnosis of what
has gone wrong with globalization and a persuasive prescription for
renewing democratic governance. Wolfgang Streeck synthesizes
arguments from politics, economics, and sociology in a book that
deserves a place besides those of his 20th century intellectual
forebears-Karl Polanyi and John Maynard Keynes.
*Fred Block, author of Capitalism: The Future of an
Illusion*
To me, one crucial question emerges from this masterclass in
contemporary political economy: does the current breakdown of a
neoliberalism underpinned by US hegemony portend a regression to
fascism and war as in the 1930s, or is there a more hopeful
prospect? Drawing on Dani Rodrik's critique of hyper-globalisation
and the democratic alternative offered by the 'Keynes-Polanyi
state', Wolfgang Streeck argues compellingly for a de-globalised
world polity founded on a humane economic nationalism. 'The nation
state', he claims, 'is the only institution capable of asserting
the primacy of society over capitalism'. Agree or disagree, Streeck
offers a radical and necessary challenge to conventional
wisdom.
*Robert Skidelsky, author of The Machine Age*
Taking Back Control? combines a brilliant diagnosis of the
political crisis of neoliberal globalization with a tough-minded
case for "small-statism" as our best chance for a
democratic-socialist resolution. Left internationalists may not
like that conclusion but cannot ignore it. Streeck's challenging
new book raises the scale-of-democracy debate to a new level.
*Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism*
Arguably the most thoughtful critic of globalisation
*Financial Times*
Taking Back Control? helped me think of what a politics beyond
liberalism could look like and expanded my sense of what is
possible.
*Granta, Books of the Year 2024*
In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of
populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a
convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks
of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it
out with clarity.
*New York Times*
This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time
*New York Times*
[E]ssential for any scholar seeking to make sense of a range of
current trends: the ongoing retreat from 1990s-style globalization,
the crisis of liberal democracy, and the rapid return of hot wars,
cold wars, and trade wars to a world that just yesterday claimed to
have overcome them all.
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
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