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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779953903321

Titolo

Questioning geopolitics : political projects in a changing world-system / / edited by Georgi M. Derluguian and Scott L. Greer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2000

ISBN

0-313-00377-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 249 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

Studies in the political economy of the world-system

Contributions in economics and economic history, , 0084-9235 ; ; no. 216

Altri autori (Persone)

DerluguianGeorgi M

GreerScott L

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

Globalization

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the Twenty- first Century; RESTRUCTURING WORLD POWER; Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the Twenty- first Century; Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status; Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World- System; REDEFINING WORLD CULTURE; Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis

Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking about the New Geopolitics Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags: A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld; Formations of Globality and Radical Politics; FROM NATIONAL STATES TO REGIONAL NETWORKS?; The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy; Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine- Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the MERCOSUR; Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy

The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the Semiperiphery: The Asian- Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World- System The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution;



Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors