Questioning geopolitics : political projects in a changing world-system / edited by Georgi M. Derluguian and Scott L. Greer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Derluguian, Georgi M.

Greer, Scott L.

Series:

Studies in the political economy of the world-system

Contributions in economics and economic history 0084-9235 ; no. 216.

Contributions in economics and economic history, 0084-9235 ; no. 216

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

International relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 249 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Summary:

Redefines globalization as merely the framework of the current political debate on the future of world power.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the Twenty-first Century / Georgi M. Derluguian, Walter L. Goldfrank 1

Part I Restructuring World Power

2 Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the Twenty-first Century / Stephen Gill 15

3 Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status / Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventresca, Brian Uzzi 33

4 Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System / Randall Collins, David V. Waller 51

Part II Redefining World Culture

5 Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis / Daniel Chirot 69

6 Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking about the New Geopolitics / Bruce Cumings 85

7 Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags: A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld / Bernard Beck, Scott L. Greer, Charles C. Ragin 101

8 Formations of Globality and Radical Politics / Arif Dirlik 111

Part III From National States to Regional Networks?

9 The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy / Michael Loriaux 139

10 Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the Mercosur / Isabella Alcaniz 155

11 Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy / Scott L. Greer 169

12 The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the Semiperiphery: The Asian-Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World-System / Xiangming Chen 185

13 The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution / Georgi M. Derluguian 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-242) and index.

ISBN:

0313310823

OCLC:

42667810