Global Governance and Transnationalizing Capitalist Hegemony: The Myth of the 'Emerging Powers'

This book is a critique of claims regarding how emerging economies are supposedly rewriting the rules of global governance and ushering in alternative models to neoliberal orthodoxy. It argues that such assumptions are abstractions that ignore both the transnationalizing nature of the global political economy and the actual policy goals of the ruling classes within most emerging economies.

Considering the larger issues behind the emerging economies (or powers) debate, the book deploys an ad...