Global War and the New Imperialism
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Adam Morton examining the conceptual connections between capitalism and relationships within the geopolitical system through the empirical case of the Iraq War.

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include state theory, the political economy of development, geographical studies, and historical sociology in their relevance to the study of modern Mexico. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (Pluto, 2007) and Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development, Updated Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), which is to be published in Spanish translation with Siglo XXI in 2017 and was awarded the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG). He has published articles in various journals, including Antipode; Environment and Planning D; Historical Materialism; International Studies Quarterly; Latin American Perspectives; New Political Economy; Review of International Political Economy; Review of International Studies; and Third World Quarterly. His blog site, For the Desk Drawer, covers the broad themes of political economy, historical sociology, and geography studies at http://adamdavidmorton.com/ and he is editor of the new blog site Progress in Political Economy (PPE) that is fast becoming a central forum for political economy debates at http://ppesydney.net/.