[AK.IPO] Call for Papers_Connecting Global Capitalism and National Capitalisms Mini Conference @SASE Annual Meeting, 27-29 June 2024, Limerick, Ireland

[Andreas Nölke]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

nachfolgend ein Cfp für die SASE-Konferenz nächstes Jahr in Limerick.

Über Beiträge aus der deutschen IPÖ würden wir uns sehr freuen.

Beste Grüße

Fulya, Merve, Arie und Andreas

*Call for Papers***
*Mini-Conference: Connecting Global Capitalism and National Capitalisms***
*SASE Annual Meeting, 27-29 June 2024, Limerick, Ireland***
*The (hard) deadline for submissions is 19 January 2024.*

Theme Description
This year the “Connecting Global Capitalism and National Capitalisms” Mini-Conference invites contributions about how our core theme about the linkage between global and national capitalism can help to understand the disruptions of and disruptions to neoliberalism, and the alternatives developed to it. We especially welcome proposals that explore the intricate relationship between these aspects, shedding light on how recent disruptions in neoliberalism have influenced and, in turn, been impacted by the dynamics of global and national capitalisms.

During the last decade, global capitalism has been undergoing massive transformations across multiple levels. Since the global financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, the economy is in a transition phase that moves it away from neoliberalism into a new period, which does not yet have a name or a title. On the international level, the world is going through further transitions via the rearrangement of international organisation structures, and institutional and regime changes, as well as through a reformation of global hierarchies, which are argued to be post-neoliberal by many scholars. The changes at the international level influence domestic processes in the form of economic regime changes, the rise of new ideologies, and the formation of new types of political coalitions. At the same time, the transformations at the domestic level - particularly in large economies and powerful states - can have important repercussions on the international level via feedback effects.

The newly emerging epoch, while currently lacking a formal designation, represents a significant departure from the principles that have guided economic policies for decades. Notably, the rise of China and India as major global economic players has been a hallmark of this transformative period. According to some observers, these economies pose new challenges to the hegemony of the United States and its dollar-centric financial system. In addition, ongoing debates surrounding the supremacy of the US dollar were coupled with tensions in global supply chains including the "chip wars", serving as vivid illustrations of the disruptions currently unfolding. Such dynamics provide new opportunities to re-open old questions, regarding the global existence of the neoliberal regime (in distinction from neoliberalism as national model), as well as the question of global drivers of change, in addition to domestic drivers. The emergence of alternative economic powers, coupled with the re-evaluation of technological supremacy underscore the complexity and dynamism of the contemporary global economic landscape. The post-neoliberal disruptions also bring to the fore crucial normative questions regarding the need to address simultaneously, the rise of populism and nationalism, the challenge of social inequality and climate change.

For the community of scholars in Socio-Economics, these transitions lead to particular challenges with regard to the internal structure of the discipline. Primarily, any systematic study of the economic aspects of a changing world order requires a deeper understanding of the interactions and linkages between International Political Economy (IPE) and Comparative Political Economy (CPE). International organizations, institutions, regimes, and structures–which are usually studied by IPE scholars—are affected and shaped by domestic actors; but at the same time, they affect and shape domestic economic regimes. Therefore, connecting the dots between IPE and CPE is essential both to understanding the neoliberalism, the problems caused by it, and the alternatives that are being developed to it. Similarly, engaging in these debates calls for an approach that connects the dots between micro, meso and macro levels of analysis for a comprehensive understanding about these disruptions and the alternatives that are emerging in due course.
In line with these considerations, this mini-conference invites theoretical and empirical contributions that bring together the CPE and IPE approaches to understand contemporary capitalist societies and global capitalism under neoliberal order, and the changes they have been going through. This also calls for a careful analysis of the transnational relations between national units as well, a crucial aspect that tends to be forgotten in the often too strict sharing of tasks between the two sub-disciplines that either focus on the intergovernmental/global level or on the comparison of national models. Correspondingly, we highlight three core study areas to carefully identify the new contours of the new global economic order: national capitalism, transnational economic relations and global institutions. A more nuanced focus on the complex state of the global economy is ever more important to understand the challenges to neoliberalism and problems created by it. For example, overlooking the role of international finance when researching the ‘authoritarian turn’ in many countries will provide only a partial understanding about this issue. Similarly, the dynamics of international migration, national capitalist structures, security, and domestic politics cannot be studied in isolation from one another.
Given the broader focus of our mini-conference, we believe it is also necessary to study global capitalism from the perspective of the periphery and the semi-periphery. This implies that neoliberalism, growth models, and capitalist systems in the South must not be studied as unsuccessful attempts to emulate the models of the North, but rather as strategies designed to address their subordinated position in global capitalism. Therefore, our mini-conference puts special emphasis on the late industrialising countries —both middle-income and low-income countries— which have experienced industrialisation and global integration at very different stages but are increasingly playing a key role in the global political and economic system. This is not only because of the growing size of their economies, which is the case for most of the BRICS, but also their crucial place in shaping the global movement of goods, services, finance, and people.

With this focus, we invite contributions on national capitalism, transnational political and economic relations, and global institutions to understand better the social transformations, ruptures, and crisis within neoliberalism, and the alternatives developed to it. This can include – but is not limited to – investment, trade, finance and migration flows, industrialisation and de-industrialisation, linkages between multilateral institutions and national capitalist systems, and interactions between different capitalist societies. We are especially welcoming studies that focus on underrepresented geographic regions in CPE and IPE.

Organisers
-          Fulya Apaydin – Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals - fapaydin at ibei.org
-          Arie Krampf – Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo - a.krampf at mta.ac.il
-          Andreas Nölke – Goethe University Frankfurt - a.noelke at soz.uni-frankfurt.de
-          Merve Sancak – Loughborough University London – m.sancak at lboro.ac.uk 

We welcome submissions of both paper abstracts and panel proposals (including 3-5 papers).
To submit to this mini-conference:
1.       Go to https://sase.org/event/2024-limerick/#submissions
2.       Click on ‘Submissions’.
3.       Select what type of submission you would like to do: abstract or panel
4.       You will be directed to Oxford Abstracts and will need to set up an account.
5.       Fill out the form, where you will find our mini-conference in the drop-down menu of Theme Track and select ‘MC 6: Connecting Global Capitalism and National Capitalisms

Please be aware that the deadline of 19 January will not be extended.


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