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‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’ (2015)
Journal Article
Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2015). ‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’. Historical Materialism, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341412

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was waged by the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’. This paper will examine how the war was a space in the ongoing geographical extension of global capitalism linked to U.S. foreign policy. Was it simply the decision b... Read More about ‘Axis of evil or access to diesel?: spaces of new imperialism and the Iraq war’.

Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’? (2014)
Journal Article
Bieler, A., & Morton, A. D. (2014). Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’?. Globalizations, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2014.860334

With capitalist social relations emerging in a prior system of absolutist states in Europe, the outward expansion of capitalism through conditions of uneven and combined development became dependent on the existence of multiple political entities. St... Read More about Uneven and combined development and unequal exchange: the second wind of neoliberal ‘free trade’?.