Inter-National Relations from Below

Rising of the P2P Mode of Foreign Relations

Örsan ŞenalpSocial Network Unionism

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The Discipline of Western Supremacy

State-centric IR, IPE Intergovernmentalism Methodological individualist neo-neo synthesis Mainstream transnationalists

Neo-Gramscian Hegemony, Empire, Global Organic Crisis

Hegemony: Global Governance as superstructure for the transnational production / world market

Emperialist / Keynesian Global Governance

Global Organic Crisis

Alt. Democratic Global Governance

Restructuring => Proletarianisation

WTO

IMF

World Bank

OECD

UN agc.

EU

USA

...

privatization

deregulation

financialisation

free trade zones

flexibility

subcontracting

good governance

expanding proletariat

crisis of unions

losing of social rights

environmental degradation

New enclosure / global apartheid

Process creating the global working class [in it self at present]

Crisis

Kees Van der Pilj's intervention

Underlines the overdetermination of productive forces, and society as primary pro. for.

Independantly utilizes Marx's abstraction to other fields of social relations,

Identifies historical structures and relevant patterns of foreign relations,

Overcomes the agency-structure duality and level of analysis problem while recognizing the primary role of power and classes

Critique.

What is missing is a comprehensive analysis of change in productive forces, production relations (as far as know until recenlty regulation school, post fordism analysis is accepted)

-the vol. 1 of his project is published in 2007,

there is a refernce to Castells, H&N en J. Merk: 'collective worker', immaterial worker, TCC, distributed (Rifkin), informatized networked capitalism

P2P revolution and theory

Since 1970s a qualitative change in productive forces taking place: transnationalisation of production: financialst., ownership, world market. and labour processes..

The primary productive force society itself is changing: P2P as a new relational dynamic is rising, it radically changes all fields of social relations, as well as society (Bauwens)

Hyper connectivity and potential accesibility is the key for rising P2P dynamics and practices: P2P transnational production, gov, properrty

P2P Mode of Foreign Relations

Van der Pijl identfies Gobal Governance mode or foreign relations for today's world Occupying space, Protection, Exchange

Global governance as new superstructure and capitalist strategy with emancpatory potential

P2P based new global commons based alternative sub and superstructure that can be coupled with a peer transnational revolution?

Patterns of P2P mod. of frgn. rl.

Peer labour, collective production / Occupation of soverign symbols spaces as big city centers

Collective reapprepriation and protection of commons / re-commonisation of water, public goods, services

Distributed access to commonised processes and producs / direct P2P exchange

Peace transition is possible, Bauwens and Rifkin's argument, yet infratructure is owned by the capital

'New working class' formation and rise of Transnational Prince?

Unidentified Revolutionary Objects UROs: Zapatista, Latin America, Seattle, WSF...2004 European unrest, students & migrants revolt Wikileaks, Anonymous, Arab Spring, Peaceful European revolts for real democracy the social networks phenomena (fbook/twitter..)