Your welcome Michel. Kees has been my first mentor, later Hilary Wainwright, Peter Waterman and you became the other three in the main team, and now many more, although none of you knew that :) However, in terms of critique of global political economy I would recommend his work to all. I did study classical imperialism, new imperialism-empire, critical globalisation, global governance, IPE and IR literature and I can assure all that Kees' work is one of the bests to understand world historical structures and historical changes in a most dialectical and dynamic way possible. So I definitely recommend his entire work to everyone. Most of his work is free access below and on the net: https://sussex.academia.edu/KeesVanderPijl The Uneven and Combined Development of International Historical Sociology 1984 All Over Again. The Snowden NSA Revelations in Perspectivemore The Financial Crisis and the War for Global Governance The above three are the most recent articles from 2014 and are brilliantly sheding light to what is happening today. Here is our very recent interview with Kees: http://transform-network.net/blog/blog-2014/news/detail/Blog/global-rivalrie... and I recommend my review of his 2007, Nomads, Empires, States: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy Volume 1, as a parallel read: [https://www.academia.edu/5445572/Modes_of_Foreign_Relations_vs_Uneven_and_Co...] On 2 September 2014 19:29, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Orsan, for bringing this to our attention,
As the oscillations of the world conjuncture intensity, and as the resistance and creative reactions to these challenges accelerate, the p2p-foundation and the p2p theoretical approaches are bound to call us to play a larger and more crucial role,
hence, we need to upgrade our strategic understanding and capabilities,
this is a very good start, and I strongly recommend that people who take the world situation seriously to read it,
https://www.academia.edu/7864649/Class_Struggles_and_Development_in_Contempo...
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