Introduction: Political Economy beyond Globalism: States, War, and Capitalist DemocracyPart I: The Demise of Centralism1. Global Politics and Regional PlanningThe Neoliberal InterludeA Critical Moment2. The Demise of the New World OrderGlobalisation and HyperglobalisationA New European Order: The European UnionForever Unfinished3. Stuck: Between Globalism and DemocracyWhat Next? A Tug of WarLeft GlobalismCulture versus UncultureDemocracy as a De-proletarianised Value System4. Breaking the Deadlock: Democracy and thePolitics of ScaleEconomic Crisis and State SystemsMegalomania?Decomposing ComplexityPart II: After Three Decades5. A Dual Crisis I: CapitalismStagnationThe Neoliberal Crisis SequenceThe Central Bank State as the Last Stage of NeoliberalismKeynes from the Ashes?Debt without Remorse?The Emergency StateCluelessThe Great UncertaintyCapitalism and Nothing Else6. A Dual Crisis II: DemocracyStates between Democracy and GlobalismGlobalism against DemocracyDemocracy against GlobalismPost-globalist Democracy?Part III: States and State Systems7. Integration and DifferentiationGibbon: Unity or Diversity?The Contemporary State System: A SurveyMetamorphoses of the Nation-StateStatehood and the Constitutive Particularism ofHuman SocialisationExcursus I: Scotland and CataloniaExcursus II: Germany in Comparison'Taking Back Control'Confederation or Empire?The Dimensions of States and State Systems, and their Political Economy8. The European Union: From Neoliberal to Geopolitical IntegrationEurope as Battleground and Place of DesireBefore Ukraine: Critical Fault-Lines, Impending FailureMore Unity through Less Unity?Integration by Militarisation?After UkraineLiabilities Old and NewBeyond Superstate and EmpireLearning from EuropePart IV: Beyond Globalist Centralisation9. Mega-statism and Its LimitationsThe Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal Globalisation:Eight ThesesGlobalisation and HyperglobalisationGlobal Market Economy, National DemocracyUnity from Above: Global GovernanceGlobal Governance as Technocratic UtopiaAnother Plan AGlobal Governance as Liberal EmpireCOVID: The (Long-Hidden) Costs of GlobalisationCOVID and the Fiscal Crisis of the State: A Conjecture10. Small-Statism and Its PossibilitiesSimon: Decomposing ComplexityKeynes: National Self-SufficiencyDeglobalisation and Alternative DevelopmentGlobal PolycentrismDisentanglement: COVID and the Supply ChainsThe Keynes-Polanyi State: National, Sovereign, DemocraticBetter Smaller'Economic Patriotism': Globalism and BackBig Crisis, Small StatesThe Question of MoneyDemocratic Particularism and Global Collective GoodsCooperative, Not Imperial: A Prospect of a New International OrderEpilogueIndex