O Segundo Círculo

centro e periferia em tempos de guerra

Abstract

O Segundo Círculo: Centro e Periferia em Tempos de Guerra (Unicamp Publisher, 2024), organized by André Singer, Bernardo Ricupero, Cícero Araújo, and Fernando Rugitsky, addresses the impasses of capitalism and democracy from a perspective that intertwines global crises and peripheral dynamics. The first part, “Times of War,” examines the escalation of global instability since 2008, exploring the rise of the far right, the disputes between the United States and China, and the contradictions of the Biden Plan. The second part, “Latin American Perspectives,” discusses industrialization in South America, extractivism, and the Pink Tide, analyzing how the commodities supercycle enabled progressive governments while simultaneously fostering a contra-dictory economic model. The final part, “Critical Thought,” revisits and updates Latin American theoretical elaborations on dependency, neoliberal he-gemony, and class struggle. Despite the fluidity of international reconfigurations, the book constructs an analytical framework capable of shedding light on the multifactorial nature of the contemporary crisis, articulating transformations in the international system, mutations of capitalism, and the grow-ing threats to democracy.