Allies as rivals : the U.S., Europe, and Japan in a changing world-system / edited by Faruk Tabak.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Tabak, Faruk.

Conference Name:

Political Economy of the World-System Conference (27th : 2003 : Georgetown University)

Series:

Political economy of the world-system annuals ; v. 27.

Political economy of the world-system annuals ; v. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1945-1989--Congresses.

World politics.

World politics--1989---Congresses.

Economic history--1945---Congresses.

Economic history.

Hegemony--Congresses.

Hegemony.

Peace--Congresses.

Peace.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

This book traces the dynamics of international rivalry from the late 1970s up through the present. Among the members of the dominate North, political discord has become prominent recently in debates ranging from the Balkan Wars to the Second Gulf War. Yet a wide array of disputes--launching of global positioning systems to steel imports--have shattered the semblance of unity and cooperation among the members of the North, the triad of Europe, US and east Asia. The book explores the subversive ways in which the configuration of economic networks in east Asia are subtly leaving their mark on the structure of the world-system. Also addressed are the ramifications on the South of this sharpening rivalry and, more importantly, whether this round of imperial rivalry will eventually give way, as previously in history, to new forms of international domination.

Contents:

Hegemony, rivalry, and the trajectory of the world-system / Faruk Tabak

The Bush regime and the collapse of the postwar geopolitical structures / Immanuel Wallerstein

Rough road to empire / Giovanni Arrighi

The U.S. trajectory / Thomas Reifer, Christopher Chase-Dunn, and Andrew Jorgenson

The trans-Atlantic conflict over primacy / Peter Gowan

Japan / Ravi Arvind Palat

Rising intra-core rivalry and the U.S. turn toward East Asia / John Gulick

Europe as alternative empire / Çağlar Keyder

Hegemonic rivalry and the periphery / Keith Nurse

The great powers and the global environment in the twentieth century / John R. McNeill.

Notes:

"[P]roduct of the Twenty-seventh Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System held at Georgetown University in April 24-25, 2003"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1594511217

OCLC:

58546687