Crises and Hegemonic Transitions reworks the concept of hegemony at the international level and analyses its relation to world market crises. Returning to the critical edition of Gramsci's Quaderni and maintaining that the author's work is permeated by Marx's Capital and the law of value, Fusaro argues that imperialist states strive to construct hegemonic relations through the use of domination, leadership, coercion, and consensus, in order to secure capital accumulation, and that economic crises have only the potential to provoke crises of hegemony. Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the present and assessing the Great Depression's and the Great Recession's impact, Fusaro provides a novel way to interpret past and present developments within the world economy.

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About the Author

Lorenzo Fusaro, Ph.D. in International Political Economy (King's College London, 2013), is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He is the author of diverse works, including Revisiting Gramsci's Laboratory (Brill, forthcoming, with Antonini et al.) and 'Why China is Different: Hegemony, Revolutions and the Rise of Contender States' (in Research in Political Economy 32, August 2017).

Book Information
ISBN 9781642590418
Author Lorenzo Fusaro
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books