Globalizing capitalism and the dialectics of geopolitics and geoeconomics

摘要

'Geoeconomics', 'geo-economy', and the 'geoeconomic social' are just a few of the terms swirling around recent attempts to make sense of how geopolitical struggles and strategies relate to globalizing capitalism, to its economic remaking of territory, and to the market imperatives and cross-border geographical imaginations of contemporary globalization in particular. The result is a confusing constellation of concepts that raise big questions about how capitalist economic imperatives and international relations (IR) shape one another, and how the geography of capitalism simultaneously makes and mediates these reciprocal relations. In this article, I argue that a useful way of navigating through these confusions is to theorize the relationship between geopolitics and geoeconomics in terms of cogenerational dialectics.