Emerging Global 'state-like' Structures and the Possibility of a Transnational SSA

摘要

@@Our purpose is to examine some of the transformations that have recently taken placewithin the "state," broadly conceived from a Social Structure of Accumulation (SSA)perspective The nation-state has traditionally provided conditions for the functioning of.circuits of accumulation. While various national state structures remain a necessary part ofthis process, the territorial aspect of states and therefore the nation-state has beenproblematized by capitalism's growth beyond national boundaries.Justifying SSA theory's initial preference for a nation-centric analysis, McDonoughargues that:"Since political and ideological institutions are an important part of any SSA, andpolitics and ideology are often country specific to particular regions or even nations, itseems appropriate to consider SSAs as national or regional phenomena rather than as onesencompassing the whole of the capitalist world" (McDonough, 1994, p. 79).