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A New World Order? Global Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century
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David A. Smith, József Böröcz
Book Code: GM9573
ISBN: 0-313-29573-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29573-7
272 pages, figures, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/1995
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Economics and Economic History
Series Number: 164
Reviews:
  • The essays are congent and highly readable. They all examine varied aspects of the process of engagement between economic structures and peripheral centers of power, and its myriad consequences in both the short term and the long run....recommended for those who seek a bird's eye view of emerging global transformations in the late twentieth century.
    —
    Journal of Developing Areas
Description: The closing years of the 20th century will be remembered as a time of tumultuous change. The various essays are attempts to understand the changes and ground them in the context of the logic of the contemporary world-system. The essays are divided into two main themes: structural transformations and regional ramifications of global transformations. East Asia, the Pacific Rim, European periphery, and the Middle East are all examined to determine if fundamental changes are occuring. Scholars and upper level and graduate students of economic history, developmental economics, regional economics, international economics, and political economy will find provocative contrasts and insights in this collection of essays, presented at the 18th annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference.
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Late Twentieth Century Challenges for World-System Analysis by József Böröcz and David A. Smith
  • Structural Transformations of the Late Twentieth Century
  • The Theory of Global Capitalism: State Theory and Variants of Capitalism on a World Scale by Robert J.S. Ross
  • The New Colonialism: Global Regulation and the Restructuring of the Interstate System by Phillip McMichael
  • Lessons from the Gulf Wars: Hegemonic Decline, Semi-Peripheral Turbulence, and the Role of the Rentier State by Cynthia Siemsen Maki and Walter L. Goldfrank
  • Global Restructing, TNCs and the 'European Periphery': What Has Changed? by Denis O'Hearn
  • Product Cycles and International Divisions of Labor: Contrasts between the United States and Japan by Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita
  • Restructuring Space, Time, and Competitive Advantage in the World-Economy: Japan and Raw Materials Transport after World War II by Steven G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell
  • Capital, Labor, and State in Thai Industrial Restructuring: The Impact of Global Economic Transformations Industry by Frederic Deyo
  • New Social Movements and Possibilities for Resistance
  • Globalization, India, and the Struggle for Justice by Timothy J. Scrase
  • Global Manufacturing, Liberalization and Indian Leather Workers by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
  • Globalization, Hegemony and Political Conflict: The Case of Zurich, Switzerland by Stefan Kipfer
  • Environmental Transformations: Accumulation, Ecological Crisis, and Social Movements
  • Left Internationalism and the Politics of Resistance in the New World Order by Andre Drainville
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-47418
LCC Class: HF1352
Dewey Class: 337
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