ABSTRACT OF PAPER
Title: session: Analytical Tools for the Age of Globalization: Economy and Warfare
Author: NAKAYAMA Chikako
Since the collapse of the conflicting structure of the so-called Cold War in the world, we have seen plenty of researches on the theme of globalization and its problems. But most of them fundamentally deal with the ultimate alternative of the ‘pro and con’ of globalization, in taking this phenomenon as given. According to our hypothesis, what we rather need is the analysis of the mechanism that has integrated spatial-temporal relations all over the world and that has pushed ‘the economy’ onto the surface, in taking its historical and structural aspects as the main concern. Globalization does not imply perpetual peace, but rather forms a regime of security as constant state of war. Now our session is planning to focus on the hypothesis above and investigates several concepts and analytical tools, consistent throughout the epoch of two World Wars in the 20th Century. This will shed light on the other side of main discourse on globalization. Nakayama’s paper investigates the notion of Neo-Mercantilism as a typical tendency in the 20th Century to use economy as weapon, referring mainly to the writings of Schumpeter about it. Thomasberger’s paper explores the concept of social justice, freedom and peace, in the context of the interwar period. It deals with such thoughts as Mises, Hayek, Popper and Polanyi in answering the problems of illusions and disillusions, facing the World War. Cangiani’s paper thinks over the political relevance of economic knowledge. Paying attention to Max Weber’s distinction of economic rationality and putting the difference of neoclassical-formal and institutional methods in front, it claims the importance of politics in economic knowledge, which was revealed by the Great War. Nishitani’s paper examines the regime of knowledge at the age of evolutionism. Comparing the thoughts of Foucault and Legendre with that of Polanyi, it extracts the essence of that regime, ‘management’, which has been used in some military connection as well as in the perspective of biology and economy. This session is an attempt to think of contemporary problems of globalization and warfare not only in reference to economic thoughts in the history but also with the help of the interdisciplinary approach. In discussing respective issues above, it will hopefully open some possibility for theoretical collaboration among economics, political science and philosophy.
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