this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad brush, we outline a new, power theory of capital and accumulation. We … use this theory to assess the changing meaning of the corporation and the capitalist state, the new ways in which capital …Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally …

shift in emphasis from “war profits” to “peace dividends” – and back to conflict? How did egalitarianism give rise to … picture that never makes it to the news. Diverse processes – such as global accumulation cycles, regional conflicts and energy … high-technology and the transnationalisation of ownership – are all woven into a single story. The result is a fascinating …

A theoretical and historical account of the global political economy of oil, armament and capital accumulation in the …

the earlier military economy and the current trajectory into “peace markets” are part of a broader global developments … opinion, the sharp “U-turn” in Israeli history is intimately linked to the changing nature of capital accumulation and … historical role played by key power groups. And, finally, rather than focus merely on domestic considerations, we claim that both …

, including ‘It’s All About Oil’ (2003), ‘Clash of Civilization or Capital Accumulation?’ (2004), ‘Beyond Neoliberalism’ (2004 …) and ‘Dominant Capital and the New Wars’ (2004). In their paper, the Retort group credits us for having coined the term … ‘Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition’ – but dismiss our ‘precise calibration of the oil/war nexus’ as ‘perfunctory.’ This dismissal …

popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s … capital, the accumulation of capital and the unit of capital. Specifically, our argument builds on a power understanding of … some measure of growth and stability, depth thrives on ‘accumulation through crisis.’ The past twenty years were dominated …

capital accumulation – but in line with the differential interests of these companies – US policies in the region seem to have … significantly, every “energy conflict” since the late 1960s was preceded by adverse drops in the differential rate of the large oil … for the arms contractors. Left unresolved, these predicaments could eventually culminate in a new “energy conflict.” …

acquisitions, stagflation and globalization as integral facets of accumulation. The framework builds on the concept of differential … accumulation, emphasizing the power drive by dominant capital groups to beat the average and exceed the normal rate of return. Four … facet of differential accumulation. (4) Periodic lulls in amalgamation tend to be compensated for by stagflation, which …

conference, the organizers asked the two of us to submit a second, short article highlighting the gist of our presentation. This …

the Middle East. On the other side of the oil arms equation stood the large U.S. and European based military contractors … increasingly inextricable power driven alliances. The Middle East drama of oil and arms since the 1970s has been greatly affected …, secondly, by the fact that every single “energy conflict” since the 1967 Arab Israeli War could have been predicted solely by …