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Questioning Geopolitics Political Projects in a Changing World-System
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Georgi M. Derluguian, Scott L. Greer
Book Code: B6656
ISBN: 0-275-96656-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96656-0
264 pages, maps, tables
Praeger Paperback
Publication: 8/30/2000
List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
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Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization. The authors reject the notion that globalization is an analytically useful term. Rather, this volume shows globalization as merely the framework of the current political debate on the future of world power. Some of the many other novel ideas advanced by the authors include: the explicit prediction that East Asia is not going to become the center of the world; the contention that the USSR collapsed for the same reasons that nearly brought down the United States in 1973; and the notion that the regional economic networks that are emerging from under the modern states are in fact rather old formations. The articles in the volume are organized around three main themes. Part One explores both the changing patterns of global power from the viewpoint of geopolitics and the Gramscian approach to the study of international relations. Part Two further develops the debate among a number of eminent historians and sociologists challenging both the apologists for and the opponents of globalization in new and unexpected ways. Part Three traces the emergence of regional economic networks and explores the ambiguous problems of security and identity posed by the old-new transborder formations.
Table of Contents:
  • Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century by Georgi M. Derluguian and Walter Goldfrank
  • Restructuring World Power
  • Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the 21st Century by Stephen Gill
  • Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status by Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventrisca, and Brian Uzzi
  • Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System by Randall Collins and David V. Waller
  • Redefining World Culture
  • Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis by Daniel Chirot
  • Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking About the New Geopolitics by Bruce Cumings
  • Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags. A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's "Jihad Versus McWorld" by Bernard Beck, Scott L. Greer, and Charles Ragin
  • Formations of Globality and Radical Politics by Arif Dirlik
  • From National States to Regional Networks
  • The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy by Michael Loriaux
  • Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the MERCOSUR by Isabella Alcañiz
  • Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy by Scott Greer
  • The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the State: The Asian-Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World System by Xianming Chen
  • The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution by Georgi M. Derluguian
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-049047
LCC Class: JZ1308
Dewey Class: 327
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