Alex Callinicos The collapse of 'actually existing socialism' in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, and the eagerness with which surviving communist regimes such as those in China and Vietnam have...
Review of Political Economy
Intellectuals in Uniform Steve Vieux James Petras Beginning with a summary of the basic ingredients of structural adjustment policies and neo-liberal political economy this paper examines the...
Neera Chandhoke The general loss of all certainties has in particular posed problems for comparative political analysis which is based on grand theories and categories of understanding. The...
Some Issues for Discussion Sumit Roy Transforming developing countries from an agricultural to an industrial economy has been a key thrust since the post-war years. In this context it is now...
A crucial issue fat any cultural or political theory today is, what are the consequences of the challenge to the modernist interpretation of modernity presented by theory and by globalisation, and...
This article examines some aspects of surveying and mapping in 19th century colonial India. It shows that the emergence of modern cartographic representation in India is intimately linked to the...
The establishment of the Government Industrial Institute in Madras in 1919 coincided with the development of chemical engineering as a distinct discipline at the Massachusetts Institute of...
Resource allocation through the state or the market, or through both, has occupied major interest in economic theory and policy. Hence, the role of the state and the market, the former symbolised by...
This paper contends that the ongoing economic reforms' are a political ideology to shore up support for the use of power of the ruling resident mm Indians (RNI). To understand an ideology one has to...
The article focuses on the role of the US imperial state in the process of worldwide capitalist development and capital accumulation and its efforts to establish global hegemony. It argues that US...
and Undoing of Green Revolution Meera Nanda The current internationalisation of capital has the effect of transforming the state into a 'transnational state1 in which domestic, social and political...
Continuing Relevance of Marxism James Petras Chronis Polychroniou Since the collapse of Soviet-style planned economies in central and eastern Europe and the disintegration of the former USSR,...
Nirmal Kumar Chandra This paper attempts to show how, rejecting neoliberal diagnoses on many occasions, China has created a transitional economic system that combines in a most original way...
Many middle aged Singaporeans are leaving for greener pastures - not to Australia or Canada but in neighbouring China, Malaysia and Indonesia. A combination of factors, economic and social, have...
What Is New in the Old Lamp Gurpreet Mahajan This paper argues that the value of postmodernism derives from its power of negation. Its critique of objectivism and the 'metaphysics of presence'...
