Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Piva, Adrián
Temporal Coverage
1999-2001
Idioma
spa
Extent
149 p.
Derechos
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Formato
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Identificador
Cobertura
USA
CHN
1999-2001
Abstract
In this thesis, we examine the relationship between the State and business corporations in the decision-making process of the U.S. foreign policy regarding China's entry into the World Trade Organization (1999-2001). Through this research, we aim to trace key elements of the current geopolitical context marked by strong tensions between the United States and China. To this end, we analyze a central moment in the configuration of the trade relationship between the two powers, China's entry into the WTO, understanding that, because of this event, there were significant changes between and within these countries and the process of the rise of the Chinese economy was accelerated.
The analysis of this paradigmatic case focuses on how the U.S. position was constructed based on the study of the discussions that took place in the country in a context characterized by an increasingly internationalized dynamic of capital accumulation and by the anti-globalization mobilizations in the 1999 WTO Ministerial in Seattle. In this regard, the thesis is centered on the debate in American society and especially on the interventions of both labor unions and business corporations. Identifying their arguments, interests and internal differences, as well as their role in the building of the State's position, is key to understanding the development of these discussions, which are still present in the American society.
From this point of view, the thesis addresses two interrelated problems: the relationship between the State and the ruling class and the role of the United States as a State in its territory and as an imperialist power, both aspects mediated by the development of the class struggle. To that end, we offer an analysis focused on the contradictions in the dynamics of accumulation and domination at the domestic and imperial levels.
The hypothesis of this research is that the elaboration of U.S. foreign policy on China's accession to the WTO can be explained by a strategy of accumulation oriented to the global expansion of U.S. capital, which realization was not granted: it was possible by defeating the anti-globalization movement through the articulation of an offensive from the State in association with the internationalized fraction of the bourgeoisie. The Congress appears as the scenario where the dispute develops, working as a sounding board for the different domestic force relations, revealing a contradiction with the Executive as guarantor of imperialist domination. Finally, however, the entry of China into the WTO led to new tensions at the domestic and international levels.
The analysis of this paradigmatic case focuses on how the U.S. position was constructed based on the study of the discussions that took place in the country in a context characterized by an increasingly internationalized dynamic of capital accumulation and by the anti-globalization mobilizations in the 1999 WTO Ministerial in Seattle. In this regard, the thesis is centered on the debate in American society and especially on the interventions of both labor unions and business corporations. Identifying their arguments, interests and internal differences, as well as their role in the building of the State's position, is key to understanding the development of these discussions, which are still present in the American society.
From this point of view, the thesis addresses two interrelated problems: the relationship between the State and the ruling class and the role of the United States as a State in its territory and as an imperialist power, both aspects mediated by the development of the class struggle. To that end, we offer an analysis focused on the contradictions in the dynamics of accumulation and domination at the domestic and imperial levels.
The hypothesis of this research is that the elaboration of U.S. foreign policy on China's accession to the WTO can be explained by a strategy of accumulation oriented to the global expansion of U.S. capital, which realization was not granted: it was possible by defeating the anti-globalization movement through the articulation of an offensive from the State in association with the internationalized fraction of the bourgeoisie. The Congress appears as the scenario where the dispute develops, working as a sounding board for the different domestic force relations, revealing a contradiction with the Executive as guarantor of imperialist domination. Finally, however, the entry of China into the WTO led to new tensions at the domestic and international levels.
Título obtenido
Magíster de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales