The major emphasis of this thesis is on the state to private sector relationships formed at a domestic level of each case study. The developmental trajectories of these relationships in China, Russia, and Brazil are examined through the beginning of the 2008 crisis to 2014. As argued below, these relationships are determinant in the ways in which local capital and state power transplants and reproduces in the ex-colonial world. To examine these relationships, this thesis offers a re-conceptualization of dialectics and the theory of uneven and combined development in a broader Marxist ontology of international capitalist political economy. In analyzing state-based methodologies of transnational firm movement, this thesis speaks to gaps in critical political economy concerning the contemporary characterization of Brazilian, Chinese, and Russian investment into the ex-colonial world. This course of argumentation is propelled by new discoveries within an analysis of secondary OECD and firm data. Macro investment data is used in conjunction with data gathered from financial and non-financial firms in Brazil and Russia. The allocation and movement of financial and productive resources is traced in this way. Legal policies and structural mechanisms of state agencies such as development banks and export credit agencies are explored. In analyzing these two factors in the relationships Brazil, Russia, and China have with the ex-colonial world the case is made that the underlying feature is one of neo-coloniality. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / The goal of this thesis is to explore the relationships that Brazil, Russia, and China have with the developing world. Specifically observed is the relationship that the governments of Brazil, Russia, and China have with domestically owned private capital to facilitate investment into Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The argument made is that these state-to-private sector relationships in the domestic economies of the case countries perpetuate new forms of colonial relationships abroad. Investment and inter-state relations are the areas examined to make this case. From the perspective of my problematic, my contributions to scholarship include: an analysis of changes in the Brazilian financial sector in 2005 and 2014; an analysis of Russian multinational corporate revival post-2014; an analysis of Chinese investment patterns; and a theoretical insertion of uneven and combined development into the study of the contemporary relations of developing areas.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/18693 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Moldovan, Alexander |
| Contributors | Sajed, Alina, Political Science |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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