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From: "E. K." <GEO111@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 18:57:12 -0500
To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY <ipe@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: New Book
A NEW BOOK (1996)
GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING AND PERIPHERAL STATES:
THE CARROT AND THE STICK IN MAURITANIA
By Mohameden Ould-Mey
Since the early 1980s, Structural Adjustment Programs(SAPs) have
represented the development policy most often pursued in
developing countries. Global Restructuring and Peripheral States
addresses SAPs and their implications for Third World states.
Taking a pioneering geopolitical and economic approach, Ould-Mey
examines the restructuring of international relations through the
process of globalization and its unfolding within peripheral
states such as Mauritania. Ould-Mey discusses the emergence of a
'global command economy' where the conception, design, and
funding of development is increasingly controlled by a few
international organizations, such as the Group of Seven
Industrialized Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the
World Bank. He argues that SAPs succeeded in reversing
nationalistic policies through a carrot and stick strategy of
providing loans in exchange for fundamental changes in the
political economy of borrowing countries.
"This is an important book, almost unique for the powerfull link
its establishes between the economic rhetoric of the Structural
Adjustment Programmes and their real political target: The
denationalization of the State." Samir Amin, Third World Forum
This book received Honorable Mention in the 1995 Malcolm H. Kerr
dissertation competition in social sciences at the 29th Middle
East Studies Association Annual Meeting held in Washington D. C.
on December 8, 1995.
The book was published by Rowman and Littlefieeld, Lanham, Maryland 20376.
330 pages
For info call 1-800-462-6420
Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu