What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’

Baltz, Matthew J.

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“…Baltz (2021) identifies two general approaches to the problem of state capitalism. On the one hand, there are ‘systemic’ approaches to state capitalism, and on the other, ‘organisational’ ones.…”

Section: Spatialising the Problématique Of The New State Capitalismmentioning

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“…Similarly, efforts to strengthen the EU-wide capacity to regulate inward foreign investments, such as Regulation EU 2019/425, have been justified by the need to monitor foreign state-sponsored entities operating in the European Union. 13 Another telling example is that of the United States, and the current re-articulation of state power which is happening in the context of the ‘new’ Cold War happening with China (Baltz, 2021; van Apeldoorn and de Graaff, 2021). Calls for a stronger industrial policy in the United States have been a response to initiatives such as the Made in China 2025 and other modalities of industrial policy in China.…”

Section: Towards a Geographic Reconstruction Of The Advent Of State C...mentioning

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“…This, however, requires unsettling the 'metageographical unconscious' than underpins much of the field of contemporary state capitalism studies, that is, the more-or-less explicit framework of assumptions regarding the spatial organisation of state capitalism. 7 The metageographical unconscious of the new state capitalism Baltz (2021) identifies two general approaches to the problem of state capitalism. On the one hand, there are 'systemic' approaches to state capitalism, and on the other, 'organisational' ones.…”

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Uneven and combined state capitalism

Alami

Dixon

2021

Environ Plan A

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This article contributes to the development of state capitalism as a reflexively critical project focusing on the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing role of the state. We bring analytical clarity to state capitalism studies by offering a rigorous definition of its object of investigation, and by demonstrating how the category state capitalism can be productively construed as a means of problematising the current aggregate expansion of the state’s role as promoter, supervisor and owner of capital across the world economy. Noting some of the geographical shortcomings of the field, we outline an alternative research agenda ‘uneven and combined state capitalist development’ which aims at spatialising the study of state capitalism and revitalising systemic explanations of the phenomenon. Rather than the negation of an abstract model of free-market capitalism, or the rise of a nationally scaled variant of capitalism, we posit contemporary state capitalism as a global process of restructuring of the capitalist state (including in its liberal form) underpinned by secular transformations in the materiality of surplus-value production, such as the consolidation of new international divisions of labour driven by automation and labour-saving technologies. The political mediation of these transformations results in the combined expansion of state-capital hybrids and of muscular forms of statism, which develop in inter-referential and cumulative forms across territory, producing further state capitalist modalities. This is a particularly potent dynamic in contemporary state capitalism, and its tendency to develop in a spiral that both shapes and is shaped by world capitalist development.

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Section: Spatialising the Problématique Of The New State Capitalismmentioning

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Section: Towards a Geographic Reconstruction Of The Advent Of State C...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Spatialising the Problématique Of The New State Capitalismmentioning

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Uneven and combined state capitalism

Alami

Dixon

2021

Environ Plan A

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“…The mutual shaping of trajectories of techno-industrial and innovation policy in the USA, China, Germany and other western European countries are notable instances of competitive relations resulting in an extension of state prerogatives and policy interventions (e.g. see Baltz, 2022 ; Germann, 2022 ; Rolf and Schindler, 2023 ). Relations between state transformations can also be more synergistic, as demonstrated in Jensen's work ( 2023 ).…”

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Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development

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The theme issue ‘Making Space for the New State Capitalism’ brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the second of these introductory commentaries, we explore the consequences of embracing relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development, together with the second group of papers. Introducing a final group of papers, the third installment will address the challenges and opportunities of thinking conjuncturally.

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“…The rise of China as a challenge to US hegemony does not only affect those two superpowers-as a 'classical' geopolitical reading might suggest-but has geoeconomic reverberations across the globe. For instance, the German and the American response to the 'China challenge' diverges significantly in the age of 'techno-nationalism' (Starrs & Germann, 2021): Certain strata of German labor and its export-oriented industry firms seek to further benefit from a symbiotic relationship with a continuously expanding Chinese consumer market, while US labor and the American security establishment demand a more aggressive stance toward Chinese economic and geopolitical competition (Baltz, 2022). Such examples show not only how the 'new cold war' between the United States and China can be studied using geoeconomic perspectives instead of classical geopolitical ones (see, e.g., Blackwill & Harris, 2016;Gertz & Evers, 2020), but also how a geoeconomic lens expands the analysis toward different actors and new geographies.…”

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Geoeconomics in a Changing Global Order

Babić

Dixon

Liu

2022

International Political Economy Series

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This introductory chapter presents an overview and summary of the focus of this edited volume. We first discuss the contribution of the chapters to a more nuanced and novel way of studying geoeconomic dynamics from an IPE perspective as going beyond the classical geopolitical focus on conflict, state-centrism, and security issues. We then embed the volume in broader changes of globalization from the neoliberal era into a more confrontative phase since 2016. The third part of the introduction then interrogates the role of the EU in this changing global order and makes the case for studying this sidelined actor in contemporary discussions about geoeconomics. The fourth and last part introduces the different chapters in detail and lays out the plan of this book.

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What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Uneven and combined state capitalism

Uneven and combined state capitalism

Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development

Geoeconomics in a Changing Global Order

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