>>18223>Naboo CrisisNaboo had a big reserve of plasma (basically oil since the Star Wars galaxy has incredibly efficient energy conversion and transportation rates, so they could monopolize it and send it anywhere) so the Trade Federation wanted to control their resources to expand their industrial trade empire, as like 1000 years prior to the movie the Galactic Republic instituted a law that corporations that developed exclusively in the Outer Rim (basically the Star Wars 3rd world) would be tax-exempt in an effort to try and build up economic power. By the time of Episode I, there is a lot of tension between the inner-core companies (which would go on to form the backbone for the Grand Army of the Republic's production) and these corporations which developed themselves in the Outer Rim (which would form the backbone of the Confederacy of Independent Systems). So the Naboo Crisis was what would become the CIS doing preemptive moves to try and seize resources to fuel their war machine when the time comes.
>the Clone WarSee above, it was a large-scale war fueled mostly by the conflicting interests of two different flavors of corporate interests slugging it out for what interests would reign supreme. The aforementioned law that made outer rim companies tax-exempt was repealed, largely from the political sway of the core world companies and done against the whims of most of the outer rim worlds, who were drastically underrepresented in the Republic Senate (often hundreds of worlds would have to share a single seat in the senate whereas core world planets would have several seats on the Senate), so the political impetuous for the Confederacy of Independent Systems came about. Many Outer Rim worlds, backed by the Outer Rim companies, seceded from the Republic, claiming it was unjust and unrepresentative of the Outer Rim. This movement was lead by a charismatic old aristocrat named Count Dooku, who molded the Confederacy into having an organized representative council which was more equal than the Republic (basically 1 planet = one senate seat), and separated corporate power from the government through legislative reforms and subordinating their corporate armies under the Separatist War Council, to make sure that all of the different arms of these corporations were acting in the interests of the CIS. By the time General Grievous became prominent, the corporate armies were essentially nationalized and became fully planned under the state.
>the imperialist policy of the Galactic RepublicBasically imagine post-WW2 Europe, the New Sith Wars were so brutal that many planets were reduced to pre-spacelight technology and making new spaceships became almost impossible all across the galaxy. The holonet (star wars internet basically) collapsed, and with it basically all communication in the galaxy. all communication had to be done by courier ships, and there were increasingly few to do this with as all civilians ships were pressed into military service to win the war. The Republic effectively collapsed and was replaced by a Jedi military dictatorship, entire battles were waged with mixes of high-tech blasters and iron age weaponry because entire worlds were so industrially destroyed, and whole sectors and systems of the galaxy were lost to memory because there was no communication or reliable star charts to get to them. after this massive war, the core worlds were reduced to ruin, and they needed hyper-exploitation of the outer rim in order to rebuild themselves, hence why they passed the tax exemption law and all that to extract resources for profit. Of course they never expected for there to be full industrialization of the outer rim, which is why the clone wars happened.
>how/why regarding Emperor Sheev Palpatine’s rise to power and the political economy of his Galactic Empire?He manipulated the war (including Count Dooku from the start) to consolidate the powers of the Chancellorship and used the intel agencies and spec-ops groups of the Republic to do false-flag attacks on his enemies, basically clearing the road to power for himself. the proclamation of the galactic empire was basically a formality, by the 3rd year of the Clone Wars it basically already was the Empire, just with Jedi serving it. Sheev put down the CIS and allowed for Core world industries to exploit them even more than the Republic did, so Sheev is basically a parallel to fascism, enforcing capitalism in a time of immense crisis through a collaboration of the state, bouj, and petite-bouj with copious amounts of corporate favoritism.