Shameless book plug!

Pardon for interrupting today's discussion about entropy and physics, but
I'd like to announce a new book.  Some WSN list members might be
interested, even though the book is actually relevant to WORLD-SYSTEM
ANALYSIS (not physics or sociobiology).


STATES AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
edited by David A. Smith, Dorothy J. Solinger and Steven C. Topik.
Published by Routledge Press, August 1999 (simultaneously in the US and
the UK and in hardcover and paperback)

Do states still matter in an era of neoliberal globalization?
Are states and political leaders confronting fundamentally new phenomena
as the world enters the 21st century?

The world is changing very rapidly at the end of the 20th century.  New
developments in information technology, an increasing flow of information
and cultural exchanges, and the rapidity with which trade and investment
now take place has given rise to new uncertainty.  This book seeks to
understand the nature of these changes and find out whether this proces
of globalization is, in fact, something new.  It does so in a truly
interdisciplinary manner, drawing on scholarship by historians,
sociologists, political scientists and economists.  In particular,
it examines the impact of change on the sovereignty of nation states.  

The book is divided into four sections:

A)  The evolution of the global system, states, sovereignty and capital
    accumulation
      
	1.  "States? Sovereignty? The dilemmas of capitalists in an age of
             transition" (Immanuel Wallerstein)
	2.  "Globalization and sovereignty" (Steven Krasner)
	3.  "Globalization, state sovereignty, and the 'endless'
	     accumulation of capital" (Giovanni Arrighi)

B)  The relationships of states and the global economy since the 18th
    century

	4.  "Two worlds of trade, two worlds of empire: European
             state-making and industrialization in a Chinese mirror"
             (Kenneth Pomeranz)
	5.  "The economic of the Latin American state: ideology, policy,
             and performance c. 1820-1945" (Colin Lewis)
	6.  "The modern colonial state and global economic integration,
             1815-1945" (William Clarence-Smith)

C)  Changes in global technology and financial practices

	7.  "Sovereignty, territoriality, and the globalization of
             finance" (Eric Helleiner)
	8.  "Embedding the global in the national: implications for the
	     role of the state" (Saskia Sassen)

D)  Six case studies of countries in four continents

	9.  "Convergent pressures, divergent responses: France, Great
             Britain, and Germany between globalization and
             Europeanization (Vivien Schmidt)
	10. "From comprador state to auctioneer state: property change,
	     realignment, and peripheralization in post-state-socialist
	     Central and Eastern Europe" (Jozsef Borocz)
	11. "Globalization, sovereignty and policy choice: lessons from
	     the Mexico peso crisis" (Manuel Pastor, Jr.)
	12. "States, sovereignty and the response of Southeast Asia's
             'mircale' economies to globalization" (Richard Stubbs)
	13. "Reinterpreting the Asianization of the world and the role of
	     the state in the rise of China" (Edward Friedman)
	14. "Hemmed in? The state in Africa and the politics of
	     globalization" (Julius Nyang'oro)  
 

Every library should have a copy of the hardcover volume ($55.00) -- make
sure you librarian has gotten their orders in!  The reasonably priced
paperback version ($18.99) is a good value for personal and classroom use.
For ordering information go to www.routledge.com      
        

dave smith
sociology
uc-irvine
irvine, ca  
92697-5100
phone: 949-824-7292
FAX: 949-824-4717