Articles by Kees van der Pijl

• Arab Revolts and Nation-State Crisis
  • Kees van der Pijl

  in NLR 70, July-August 2011, pp. 27-49
  Subjects: Arab World , International Relations
  

  The triple crisis—of Western hegemony, of capital and of the nationstate form—within which the Arab uprisings of 2011 have unfolded, and longer-run history of Anglo-American strategies for containing popular aspirations to sovereignty.

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• Atlantic Ideologies
  • Kees van der Pijl

  in NLR 50, March-April 2008, pp. 147-155
  Subjects: Britain , United States , International Relations
  

  Kees van der Pijl on Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World. Traditions of pragmatic flexibility as explanation for the ascendancy of the Anglosphere—and basis for a coming realignment of US foreign policy?

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• A Lockean Europe?
  • Kees van der Pijl

  in NLR 37, January-February 2006, pp. 9-37
  Subjects: Europe , International Relations
  

  Liberalization and its discontents seen in the longue durée—the struggle of late-coming statist contenders against an Anglophone heartland, now subsuming Europe in its Lockean embrace. Kees van der Pijl tracks the removal of macro-economic questions from democratic decision-making as central precondition for the EU’s neoliberal turn.

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