BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
A NEW WORLD ORDER? GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
edited by David A. Smith and Jozsef Borocz. (Contributions in Economics
and Economic History, Number 164, ISSN 0084-9235) Greenwood Press:
Westport, Connecticut. 275 pages. LC 94-47418.
Hardcover edition (a MUST for libraries!): ISBN 0-313-29573-5. GM9573,
$59.95; Attractive paperback edition: ISBN 0-275-95122-7, $19.95
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This volume is a compilation of the best papers from the Political
Economy of the World-System (PEWS) XVIII, April 1994 in Irvine, CA. We
are pleased that we managed to get the volume out in near record time --
but without compromising to quality of the contents! The collection
should be of interest to scholars in several disciplines that relate to
issues of global political economy. It provides a useful integrated set
of readings for graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate classes.
The closing years of the twentieth century will be remembered as a time
of tumultuous change. The various essays are attempts to understand the
changes and ground them in the context of the logic of the contemporary
world-system. The essays are divided into two main themes: 1) structural
transformations and regional ramifications, and 2) "new social movements"
and the possibilities for resistance. East and South Asia, the Pacific
Rim, the European periphery, and the Middle East are all areas that come
under special scrutiny.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 "Late Twentieth Century Challenges for World-System Analysis"
by Jozsef Borocz and David Smith
Chapter 2 "The Theory of Global Capitalism: State Theory and Variants
of Capitalism on a World Scale" by Robert J.S. Ross
Chapter 3 "The New Colonialism: Global Regulation and the Restructuring
of the Interstate System" by Phillip McMichael
Chapter 4 "Lessons from the Gulf Wars: Hegemonic Decline, Semi-Peripheral
Turbulence, and the Role of the Rentier State" by Cynthia
Siemsen Maki and Walter L. Goldfrank
Chapter 5 "Global Restructuring, TNCs and the "European Periphery":
What Has Changed?" by Denis O'Hearn
Chapter 6 "Product Cycles and International Divisions of Labor:
Contrasts between the United States and Japan" by Richard
Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita
Chapter 7 "Restructuring Space, Time, and Competitive Advantage in
the World-Economy: Japan and Raw Materials Transport
after World War II" by Stephen G. Bunker and Paul Ciccantell
Chapter 8 "Capital, Labor, and the State in Thai Industrial
Restructuring: The Impact of Global Economic
Transformations" by Frederic C. Deyo
Chapter 9 "Globalization, India, and the Struggle for Justice"
by Timothy J. Scrase
Chapter 10 "Global Manufacturing, Liberalization, and Indian
Leather Workers" by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Chapter 11 "Globalization, Hegemony, and Political Conflict:
The Case of Local Politics in Zurich, Switzerland"
by Stefan Kipfer
Chapter 12 "Environmental Transformations: Accumulation,
Ecological Crisis, and Social Movements" by
Sing Chew
Chapter 13 "Left Internationalism and the Politics of Resistance
in the New World Order" by Andre Drainville
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dave smith
sociology, uci
irvine, ca 92715
714-824-7292