Introduction to Neoliberal Globalization and Multipolarism

In this work, the authors argue that in the age of neoliberal (postindustrial) globalization under American hegemony, the emerging call by Russia and China for a multipolar world order undergirded by traditionalism and nationalism is grounded in Karl Polanyi's double movement thesis. In other words, this latter protestation for multipolarism is not a socialist counterhegemonic movement against the climate change problem, exploitation, and pollution of capitalist relations of production as found in Chinese socialism; instead, it is a sociopolitical cultural reaction (countermovement) to the uproot of tradition and nationalism promoted by the neoliberal identity (capitalist) processes of the imperial West and America operating out of postindustrial finance economies.