The modern globalised world is composed of two universal structures, the capitalist world-market and the international states-system. The fundamental question for understanding this globalised condition is why these two structures, capital and the international, exist together, forming a single system that encompasses the entire world.This book answers that question by drawing on dialectical theory to explore the relation between economic value and political sovereignty. Combining economics, politics, international relations and philosophy, it transcends disciplinary boundaries to offer the first theoretical account of the modern world-system as a whole.
Andrew Davenport is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth
Introduction1. The Problematic of the International2. The Economic and the International3. The Theory of Value: The Revolution in Value Theory4. The Theory of Value: From Labour to Exchange5. The Economic and Dialectic6. The Concept of Capital: Marx and the Modern Subject7. The Concept of Capital: Origins of the Dialectic8. Sovereignty and DialecticConclusion: Dialectic and the Messianic
