Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Biography: Colin Temple Leys
  • Introduction From Colin Leys to Counter-Hegemony: Debates and Dialogues from the Left
  • National Politics in a Global Economy: Reflections on the British Experience
  • Introduction
  • From Thatcher to Blair: British Politics at the Turn of the Millennium
  • Revisiting Thatcherism and Its Political Economy: Hegemonic Projects, Accumulation Strategies, and the Question of Internationalization
  • Rethinking the Labour Party's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism
  • Tony Blair and the British Left
  • Introduction
  • Politics in Africa: Trajectories, Transitions, and Contradictions
  • Afropessimism/optimism: The Antinomies of Colin Leys1
  • Caught in the Contradictions: The State in Kenya, 1945-2000
  • Constructing a Development Agenda for Namibia1
  • Political Dimensions of the Adjustment Experience of Côte d'Ivoire
  • Introducing Race As a Variable Into the Political Economy of Kenya Debate: An Incendiary Idea
  • Introduction
  • World Economy: Ideologies, Perspectives, and Strategies for Change
  • Development Theory: A New Hegemonic Ideology?
  • Capital, Marxism, and the World Economy: APEC and the MAI1
  • Amnesty: An Essay in Law and Politics
  • The Rise and Fall of New Social Movement Theory?
  • The Social Economy in Québec: Discourses and Strategies
  • Introduction
  • New Theoretical Challenges: Political Theory and the Theory of Politics
  • Politics in Isolation? Recent Developments in Political Theory
  • An Ethical Politics of Our Times: Moral Selves or Solidarity?
  • Fetishizing Phantoms: Carl Schmitt, Chantal Mouffe, and "The Political"1
  • Incredulity and Poetic Justice: Accounting for Postmodern Accounts
  • Afterword
  • About the Authors