This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery inworld politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studiesas well as theoretical chapters. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Moore ; O.Worth - PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE SEMI-PERIPHERY - Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery?; O.Worth - Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery; H.Radice - Globalisation, Accumulationby Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis?; G.Strange - PART II: GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE IN THE SEMI-PERIPHERY - The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina; E.Vivares - Economic Development in the East Asian (semi) Periphery; J.P.Abbott - China and India: The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery; G.Downes - 'Upper Volta with Gas'? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State; R.Simon - Turkey in the World System and the New Orientation; P.Moore ; C.Dannreuther - PART III: NEW SEMI-PERIPHERAL DEVELOPMENTS AND POSSIBLE FUTURE - CEE as a new Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland's Transition; S.Shields - A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and lines of flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres; W.Vlcek - Towards a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World- System; K.Lawrence - Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy; C.Chase-Dunn ; T.Boswell - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22075-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 14/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés