Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism
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Biographical note
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.
- Aditya Chakrabortty, 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 <i>American Society: How it Really Works</i>,
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 <i>Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion</i>,
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 <i>The Machine Age</i>,
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 <i>Cannibal Capitalism</i>,
Arguably the most thoughtful critic of globalisation
- Martin Wolf, 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.
- John-Baptiste Oduor, 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.
- Christopher Caldwell, 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.
- David Singh Grewal, Chronicle of Higher Education