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Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

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Dominant Capital and the New Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Journal of World-Systems Research 10 (2004) 2, pp. 254-327

The recent shift from ‘global villageism’ to the ‘new wars’ revealed a deep crisis in heterodox political economy. The popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s and 1990s suddenly collapsed. The early 2000s...

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Going Global: Differential Accumulation and the Great U-turn in South Africa and Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 1, pp. 21-55

regional conflict, and hence voiced little opposition to the continuation of a war economy at home. Recently, however, these …

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From War Profits to Peace Dividends: The New Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Capital & Class (1996) 60, pp. 61-94

Since the late 1980s, Israel has been undergoing a profound transformation, characterized by reconciliation with its Arab neighbours and attempts to reintegrate into the regional economy, a transition from a militarized economy to open markets, and a decline of the collectivist ethos in favour...

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Putting the State In Its Place: US Foreign Policy and Differential Accumulation in Middle-East “Energy Conflicts”

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of International Political Economy 3 (1996) 4, pp. 608-661

significantly, every “energy conflict” since the late 1960s was preceded by adverse drops in the differential rate of the large oil … for the arms contractors. Left unresolved, these predicaments could eventually culminate in a new “energy conflict.” …

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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...

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Bringing Capital Accumulation Back In: The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition – Military Contractors, Oil Companies and Middle-East "Energy Conflicts"

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review of International Political Economy 2 (1995) 3, pp. 446-515

, secondly, by the fact that every single “energy conflict” since the 1967 Arab Israeli War could have been predicted solely by …

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Political Power Shifts in Israel, 1977 and 1992: Unsuccessful Electoral Economics or Long Range Realignment?

Bichler, Shimshon - In: Science & Society 58 (1994) 4, pp. 415-439

Israeli politics saw major realignments in 1977 and 1992. The effect of long range economic cycles on the nature and outcome of Israeli electoral politics is examined in these two elections.

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New Imperialism or New Capitalism?

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the … XXIX (2006) 1, pp. 1-86

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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Israel's Global Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2004

conflicts, is a matter of ethnicity, religion and culture, and these sentiments have their ups and downs. The prime agitators of … appearances. History certainly is open-ended, but it is not random. And while ethnicity, religion and culture are real features of …The flaring up of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the early 2000s caught most experts by surprise. The 1990s …

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