Global Capitalism and “North-South” Unevenness: In Light of Ranking, Statistical Correlations, and Profits from the Forbes’ Worldwide List of 2000 Top Firms

Castillo-Mussot, Marcelo del; Sprague, Jeb; García, Alfredo de la Lama

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“…Instead, these scholars argue that the relationship of states to the global system is being transformed as a transnational capitalist class articulates interests that are tied less and less to territoriality. While the significance of the North-South divide continues (Castillo-Mussot, et al, 2013;Robinson, 2014), powerful TCC groups have emerged throughout the global South whose interests lie in the global over national and regional economies. Rather than core and peripheral nation-states (Wallerstein, 2004), the core and periphery can be first more fruitfully seen as denoting social groups in increasingly visible, bound together as a conscious class whose material basis is imbricated in…”

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The Caribbean Cruise Ship Business and the Emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class

Sprague-Silgado¹

2017

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This paper will provide an overview of the fundamental changes that the cruise ship business has undergone with the emergence of capitalist globalization and in the context of the Caribbean region. Rising profits and investments in tourism during the later decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century have been an important part of the globalizing economy. This has been a consequence of both the major technological andThe cruise ship business is not motivated by the national economic development of any single country. Rather, it is capitalism's anti-social character at any level-local, national, regional, international, and, most importantly in recent decades, the transnational, that propels this business. Yet, when we add up the ecological impact of mass cruise ship tourism, the costs to humanity become increasingly unbearable. This analysis of the expansion of capitalism in the Caribbean via leisure travel reinforces the point that capital accumulation is substantively a contradictory and unsustainable global process in which those exercising state power play a very important role. State policymakers from a variety of states (most importantly, from the U.S.) have become complicit in the reworking of capital-labor relations to benefit the TCC. It shows us that sovereignty, states, and power are not so tightly tethered to a self-interested territorial logic, but, rather, exhibit what John Agnew (2009) Traditionally, scholars have looked at different nation-state-based elites as dominating the resorts and cruise ship destinations. Dotting the Caribbean's new array of privatized beaches, these businesses are under the control of a coalition of foreign, expatriate, and local elites (Klein 2005(Klein , 2009). In fact, it is clear that the world-system that came about through earlier phases of capitalism has played a key role in shaping many terms and conditions of today's transnational class relations form (Watson 2015).World-systems scholars have looked at the cruise ship business and tourism industry in the developing world as based on the flow of resources from "periphery" nations to wealthy "core" nations (Boyce 2003;Weaver 2001). Through this perspective, we would then see the U.S. state as facilitating the profiteering activities of U.S. national capitalists (with a fraction being internationally oriented) (Sprague, 2014a). This is in fact also a perspective underlying nationalist sentiments that many scholars and activists have embraced, including within the Caribbean: that poorer nations and their business communities must then compete with influential foreign national power blocs. Yet as capitalist accumulation has undergone fundamental changes over recent decades, we need to recalibrate how we understand political economy in the global era. Developmental models and relations tied to the inter-state system continue to erode, as many state leaders and local elites promote transnational capitalist interests and global competitiveness-even if this does include national rhetoric (and some poli...

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The Caribbean Cruise Ship Business and the Emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class

Sprague-Silgado¹

2017

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From HERITAGE to Feritage: How Economic Path Dependencies in the Caribbean Cruise Destinations Are Distorting the Uses of Heritage Architecture and Urban Form

Supersudaca¹,

Bruno²,

Delgado³

et al. 2019

Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage

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While the impact of cruise shipping is largely mitigated by the consolidated and diverse economies of port cities, such as Hamburg, Tokyo, and Seattle, it is a key issue in the current transformation of the Caribbean cruise destinations that increasingly depend on tourism. This chapter illustrates how cruise tourism has triggered spatial and sociocultural changes in urban form and architectural heritage in the Caribbean region. It argues that those transformations fall into a path dependency thread, and that we are at a critical juncture whose stakes include the risk that cruise lines might soon just leave heritage sites altogether. The chapter also gives a broader reading of the contemporary modes of cruise tourism exploitation. The "Introduction" describes how previous economic dependencies shaped and conditioned the built heritage (urban form, urban function, and heritage architecture) of Caribbean port cities and how spatial relationships of port, city, and hinterland ultimately followed the spatial logics of colonial exploitation. It describes how this historically established (hence path-dependent) economical patterns are still visible in the current operating modes of cruise tourism in the region. The section "How Historical Political and Socio-economic Dependencies Shaped Both Caribbean Port City Heritage and Current Operating Modes of Cruise Tourism" describes the role of heritage architecture of port cities, in the context of cruise lines' economic interests. The section "Heritage Architecture of Caribbean Cities and Cruise Lines' Economic Interests" looks more specifically at how the cruise lines' original interest in heritage preceded their actual disinterest. If the cruise lines were the first actors to add economic value to Caribbean heritage, the Caribbean cruise experience now sidesteps-if not actually fakes-local culture, cities, and economy.

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Internal Violent Conflicts and Overt War among National States?

Castillo-Mussot

García

2015

Perspect Global Dev Technol

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We focus on geopolitical tensions, possibilities of internal violent conflicts or overt war among national-states. First, we examine the most important concepts and practices of the neoliberal globalization. The current world situation seems to indicate that neoliberalism is not a theory, a class strategy designed to redistribute wealth upward toward an increasingly narrow fraction of people, despite national contradictions. We review sources of international tensions and some important data of transnational corporations in the North and South. Historical experiences show that crisis can produce different kinds of changes and distinct political responses in societies, such as internal violent conflicts or overt war among national-states. Some of these conflicts can be analyzed by employing two frameworks; national-states framework and global class relations. We argue that in a highly globalized world, the existence of overt war among strong nation-states could seriously damage the globalist bloc transnational commanding class, whereas internal violent conflicts can easily appear almost everywhere as a natural consequence of social and economic inequalities. In order to counterweight the crisis and fascist movements we propose alliances among the dominated classes and other dominated groups.

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Global Capitalism and “North-South” Unevenness: In Light of Ranking, Statistical Correlations, and Profits from the Forbes’ Worldwide List of 2000 Top Firms

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The Caribbean Cruise Ship Business and the Emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class

The Caribbean Cruise Ship Business and the Emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class

From HERITAGE to Feritage: How Economic Path Dependencies in the Caribbean Cruise Destinations Are Distorting the Uses of Heritage Architecture and Urban Form

Internal Violent Conflicts and Overt War among National States?

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