Acknowledgements

This work began from a simple question posed in the autumn of 2018: what is state capitalism? Since then, we have been fortunate to test our ideas and claims with many interlocutors and collaborators. Special mention goes to Imogen T. Liu and Milan Babić, who were members of the SWFsEUROPE project and with whom we edited a special issue of the journal Contemporary Politics on state capitalism. Their collaboration early on was crucial for setting the case for how to approach the problématique of the new state capitalism. Emma Mawdsley deserves special mention for her collaboration on a paper published in Antipode on state capitalism and global development. Heather Whiteside and Jamie Peck also deserve special mention for their collaboration on co-editing a tripartite special issue on state capitalism in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, where our work was graciously applied and advanced in new empirical and theoretical ways. In addition, we would like to thank, Greig Charnock, Nick Jepson, Nana de Graaff, Dariusz Wójcik, Gordon Clark, Seth Schindler, Steve Rolf, Callum Ward, Jack Copley, Alexis Moraitis, Jack Taggart, Brett Christophers, Malcolm Fairbrother, Jeffrey Henderson, the participants in the Value-Form reading group, and the members of the Second Cold War Observatory. All views expressed herein are our own.

Various aspects and arguments of this book were presented at the following events and conferences, where we benefitted from the generous engagement of audience members: the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics, Budapest, Hungary, the Université de Genève, the American Association of Geographers annual meeting, the Goldsmiths University of London, Goethe University Frankfurt, Umeå University, London School of Economics, European International Studies Association, Sciences Po Paris, the Global Conference on Economic Geography, the Open University UK, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the International Karl Polanyi Conference, the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN), Manchester University, and the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy.

Ilias Alami is grateful to the Department of Society Studies at Maastricht University, the Centre d’Études Européennes at Sciences Po, MaxPo Paris, and the Uppsala University Department of Human Geography for hosting him during part of the writing of this book. Adam Dixon would like to acknowledge the support of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University and the Globalization, Transnationalism, and Development research programme for hosting the SWFsEUROPE project and to the Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University and Adam Smith’s Panmure House for providing the time and space to complete the research and manuscript. This work was supported generously by the Marie Skłodowska–Curie Actions (grant agreement no.101024448) and by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 758430) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and programme innovation.

Some of the chapters of this book draw, in part, upon previously published open access papers. Here we would also acknowledge the permission of publishers to use portions of these papers and essays: