The Köhler/Chaves volumes

Petros Haritatos drew already your attention to it - yes indeed, it is well,
alive and seemingly forthcoming:

G. Kohler and E.J.Chaves (eds.), Globalization:
Critical Perspectives. New York: Nova Science (forthcoming, 2001)



About the Authors


Samir Amin is author, Egyptian, political economist, professor at the
Universities of Paris and Dakar, Director of Third World Forum and President
of World Forum for Alternatives. His most recent books are: Capitalism in
the Age of Globalization (Zed Books, London 1996) and Spectres of Capitalism
(Monthly Review, New York 1998).


Patrick Bond is a research associate with the Alternative Information and
Development Centre (http://www.aidc.org.za) and associate professor at the
University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development
Management, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has drafted more than a dozen
public policy documents for the South African government, and is active with
trade unions, township civic associations and non-governmental organisations
throughout South Africa and Zimbabwe. He has also worked for President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, and taught at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health. Bond has authored or coauthored six books and
numerous academic and popular articles on economic development and politics
in the Southern Africa region. He earned his doctorate in economic geography
at Johns Hopkins University, following part-time business studies at the
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and an undergraduate
degree in economics from Swarthmore College.


Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director
of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of
California-Riverside. Chase-Dunn has done crossnational quantitative studies
on the effects of foreign investment, and on city size hierarchies. He
studies intersocietal systems, including both the modern global political
economy and earlier regional world-systems. He is currently doing research
on the causes of empire expansion and urban growth (and decline) in the
Afroeurasian world-system over the last 4000 years. And his study of
economic and political globalization in the modern world-system over the
past 200 years is supported by the National Science Foundation. Chase-Dunn
is the founder and co-editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems
Research.


Emilio J. Chaves is a mechanical engineer (from the Universidad de los
Andes) and Ms.D. in environmental sciences (University of Louisville, USA).
Researcher in alternative economics. Influenced by Miguel de Cervantes, Karl
Marx, Miguel de Unamuno, Erich Fromm, Enrique Dussel, Alvaro Cepeda Samudio,
liberation theology, amazonic/andean/caribean popular wisdom (mainly
Antonio) and world systemic approaches. Current research is on relations
among macro-economic parameters and distribution indexes. Unable to live
with borrowed emotions or without dreams, he stands for constructive
disobedience and feasible collective utopias, already inspired by so many of
our best old ancestors, and also practiced/expressed today by many persons
and artists of all cultures.


Andre Gunder Frank is Professor Emeritus of Development Economics and Social
Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at the
University of Miami and Florida International University. His publications
in 27 languages include 136 editions of 37 books, 158 chapters in 134 edited
readers or anthologies, and articles in about 600 issues of periodicals. His
books include: Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America (l967),
World Accumulation 1492-1789 (l978), Crisis in the World Economy (1980),
Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World-System (1990 w/
S. Amin, G. Arrighi & I. Wallerstein), Underdevelopment of Development:An
Autobiographical Essay (1991), The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five
Thousand? (1993/1996, contributor/editor with B. K. Gills), and ReORIENT:
Global Economy in the Asian Age (University of California Press, April
1998).


Ernesto R. Gantman received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad
de Buenos Aires. At present he is a professor and researcher at the Doctoral
Program of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
He also teaches at the Universidad de Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
His current research interests include structural adjustment and
undervelopment in Latin America and the historical evolution of
organizational forms.


Peter Grimes received his Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University
in 1996, and has been researching, teaching, and writing about social
evolution and the environment for twenty years.  In 1992 he was awarded a
grant from the National Science Foundation to apply world-systems theory to
the production of greenhouse gases.  He is currently working on a book about
these issues.


Hardy Hanappi received his M.S. degree from the University of Technology
Vienna and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Vienna. He has been
co-director of the research unit on socioeconomics at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences and served as a member in several boards of academic journals
and conferences. At present he is professor of economics and computerscience
at the Institute of Economics of the University of Technology of Vienna. His
current research interests include macroeconomic modelling, global political
economy, evolutionary economics and game theory.


Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Technology Vienna. At present she is professor of  computer
science at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Computer-supported
Cooperative Work of the University of Technology of Vienna. Her current
research interests include decision support systems, feminist theory and
technology and applied game theory.


Petros Haritatos is a Greek political scientist living in Athens. A graduate
of the Paris "Institut d'Etudes Politiques" he specializes in activism and
has engaged in politics and journalism. He also worked in multinational
business, thus experiencing the "Empire" from the inside. He has written two
books: Kinisi tis Symphysis (1985) on how identical conditions produce
opposing ideologies and Ektos Stathmos tis Grias Patridas (1989) on how
history shapes social attitudes. Currently he is focusing on the study of
behaviors and values in Greek society. He can be reached at
haritatos@athenian.net.


Kimmo Kiljunen, D.Phil., Member of Parliament 1995-, Director, Institute of
Development Studies, Helsinki University 1986-95, Transition Policy
Coordinator, UNDP, New York 1993-94, Consultant, UNICEF, Kenya Country
Office, Nairobi 1989-91, Secretary General, International Peace Bureau,
Geneva 1984-85, Liaison Officer, Finnish UN Association 1974-75, several
books on international politics and global development problems.


Gernot Köhler, Ph.D., has been writing on issues of global economics,
world-system, peace and justice in journals like Alternatives, Journal of
World-Systems Research, Journal of Peace Research, Bulletin of Peace
Proposals, Journal of Conflict Resolution. He has co-authored a book on
unequal exchange and global economics (with Tausch, forthcoming). He is
teaching at the School of Computing and Information Management, Sheridan
College, Oakville, Canada.


Robert J.S. "Bob" Ross is Professor and former Chair of Sociology at Clark
University.  He is also the Director of the International Studies Stream for
undergraduates, and elected Chair of the Faculty. He is the author, with
Kent Trachte, of Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan (SUNY Press, 1990). He
has been working on a book on the sweatshop issue, tentatively entitled :
Hearts Starve: The New Sweatshops in Global Context. (University of Michigan
Press). Since 1996 Ross has addressed more than 60 professional and public
groups about problems of human and labor rights in the apparel industry.
Ross was educated in New York City public schools, and the Universities of
Michigan (BA) and Chicago (MA, PhD). Besides Clark, where he joined the
faculty in 1972, he has taught at Harvard, MIT, and the University of
Michigan. In Spring of 1999 he held the Cole Professorship at Wheaton
College.


Arno Tausch is Associate Visiting Professor of Political Science at
Innsbruck University, Department of Political Science, A-6020 Innsbruck
University; Innrain 52/III; Austria. He researched and taught at several
institutions in Europe and at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and he
served as an Austrian diplomat in Warsaw for 7 years. At present he is a
Ministerial Counsellor in the department of bilateral
relations/international organizations at the Ministry for Social Security
and Generations in Austria. His most recent book is: 'Global Capitalism,
Liberation Theology, and the Social Sciences : An Analysis of the
Contradictions of Modernity at the Turn of the Millennium' with Andreas
Muller, Paul Michael Zulehner, Co-Editors (New York: Nova Science
Publishers, 2000;), earlier titles include: 1993 'Towards a Socio - Liberal
Theory of World Development' Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan/St.
Martin's Press (under collaboration of Fred Prager) and 1997 'Schwierige
Heimkehr. Sozialpolitik, Migration, Transformation, und die Osterweiterung
der Europaeischen Union' Munich: Eberhard.


Sadik Ünay is a PhD Candidate in Government at the University of Manchester
(UK), and a Research Assistant at the University of Balikesir (Turkey). He
received his BA in Political Science and International Relations from
Bogazici University (Istanbul)and his MA (Econ) in International Political
Economy from the University of Manchester, Graduate Centre in Government.
His principal research interests include the impact of globalization on the
semi-periphery and possibilities of autonomous responses, the changing
patterns of interaction between the state, business, and society under the
globalizing forces, comparative political economy of socio-economic
transformation in East Asia and Latin America; and comparative political
economy of the Middle East and Turkey. He has numerous publications and
conference presentations both in English and Turkish.


Immanuel Wallerstein is the Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at
Binghamton University and Senior Research Scholar at Yale. He is the author
of The Modern World-System, 3 vol., and The End of the World As We Know It:
Social Science for the Twenty-first Century. He was the President of the
International Sociological Association, 1994-1998.

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Table of Contents--Version 12 - 26 Nov 00


Title Page                      Globalization: Critical Perspectives 

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Introduction


Part 1 --  Critique of Global Capitalism

Ch. 1   Samir Amin              The Destructive Dimension of the
Accumulation of Capital

Ch. 2   Immanuel Wallerstein    Globalization or The Age of Transition?: A
Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World-System


Part 2 - Global Governance

Ch. 3   Christopher Chase-Dunn  Globalization From Below: Toward a
Collectively Rational and Democratic Global Commonwealth

Ch. 4   Kimmo Kiljunen  Global Governance  

Ch. 5   Arno Tausch     The European Union: Global Challenge or Global
Governance? 13 World System Hypotheses and Two Scenarios on the Future of
the Union


Part 3 - Global Movement

Ch. 6   Patrick Bond    African Grassroots Roles in the `Anti-Globalisation'
Movement: Strategy, Self-Activity and South-South-North Solidarity

Ch. 7   Petros Haritatos        Invisible Strengths: The Greek Experience


Part 4 -- The Experience of Regions and Countries

Ch. 8   Andre Gunder Frank      Asian Meltdown or Startup?

Ch. 9   Ernesto Gantman The Painful Way to "Capitalist Development":
Structural Adjustment and Foreignization of the Argentine Economy in the
Nineties 

Ch. 10 Robert J.S. Ross Declining Labor Standards in the North American
Apparel  Industry 

Ch. 11 Sadik Ünay       Exploring Turkey's Trajectory Towards Global
Capitalism: On the Golden Road to Prosperity, or the Tightrope to
Semi-Peripheral Incorporation?

Part 5 - Global Economics and Ecology

Ch. 12 Hardy Hanappi and 
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger Elements of an I-O-based Framework for Marxian,
Feminist and World-System Approaches

Ch. 13 Emilio J. Chaves Toward a Center-Periphery Model of Global Accounting

Ch. 14 Gernot Köhler    Time Series of Unequal Exchange, 1960-98 

Ch. 15 Peter Grimes             World-System and Ecology


Part 6 - Bibliography

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