Description
This roundtable aims to provide a forum within which to discuss how critical international political economy can inform our understanding of the current world (dis)order. Capitalist crises continue to proliferate. From the Climate Crisis, through the Covid crisis, and on to the Polycrisis. This is Disaster Capitalism. It sees the decaying global order being replaced with multipolar militarization: "forever wars", the Russian neocolonial invasion of Ukraine, the horrific mass killings of civilians amidst the reinvigorated Israel-Palestine conflict, military uprisings across Africa, and heightened geo-political tensions in the Asia-Pacific. Advances in technology take the form of automated alienation. The ongoing drive for expansion creates yet more degradation of our planet and the climate disaster worsens by the year. It is in this context of extreme levels of global disorder that we seek to draw upon critical traditions in international political economy in order to understand, explain, and help transform, disaster capitalism.
