The dialectics of globalization : economic and political conflict in a transnational world / Jerry Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, G. W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Information technology--Political aspects.

Information technology.

Information technology--Economic aspects.

International economic relations.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

ix, 278 p.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combining bold theortical analysis and careful empirical investigation Harris provides a critical framework to understand the political and economic underpinnings of globalization. In an unique historical approach the book examines how the revolution in information technologies and the break-up of the Soviet Union intertwined to present new global opportunities to reorganize capitalism as a unified world system headed by an emerging transnational capitalist class. The book challenges the common view that nation states still define international relations, with the United States as hegemonic leader of the world system. Instead Harris offers a more complex analysis of world affairs that sees the current period as one of transition between nationally based industrial capitalism and a global system based on revolutionary methods of production and new class relationships. He argues this conflict appears in every country as national economies realigned to fit new patterns of world accumulation creating a host of political tensions within and between nations. This analysis is detailed in a distinctive interpretation of the US military/industrial complex, as well as the contemporary class struggles in Germany and the emerging powers of China, India and Brazil. The book concludes by investigating alternative trends which are currently challenging the inequalities of global capitalism, unfolding a fresh approach to the relationship between the state, market and civil society.

Contents:

section I. Capitalism and technology in the era of globalization

section II. The dialectics of globalization

section III. Globalization and national transformation

section IV. Alternative globalizations.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-02986-X

9786612029868

1-4438-0220-4

OCLC:

831680045