Geopolitics and the ‘New’ State Capitalism

We may be witnessing the emergence of a new ‘state capitalist’ normal, term this Forum proposes to problematise in its geopolitical dimensions. The growing prevalence state-sponsored entities (encompassing state enterprises, policy banks, and sovereign wealth funds) as leading vehicles economic activity is defining feature our times. This reassertion authority altering configurations corporate power across world economy while generating multiplicity tensions. reflects upon what it means, theoretically, methodologically, politically, articulate geopolitics contemporary capitalism. It brings together interventions which draw on various theoretical approaches, including critical political geography, historical materialism, geographical economy, structure research, order probe into multiple spatialities at core contributions aim destabilise assumptions taken-for-granted ideas have largely framed debate thus far, problematic binaries such liberal/illiberal, state/market, commercial/geopolitical logics, realist narratives interstate power-maximising behaviour. Studying (geo)political re-organisation global capitalism requires moving beyond castigation ‘rogue’ well clash between rival political-economic models, disassembling category