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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783842803321

Autore

Lentner Howard H.

Titolo

Power and politics in globalization : the indispensable state / / Howard H. Lentner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93360-X

1-135-93361-8

1-280-17109-X

0-203-33556-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

Globalization

Nation-state

Power (Social sciences)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Globalization and politics -- Alternative conceptions of the contemporary world -- Globalization and power -- World problems and specific state problems -- Hegemony : the liberal international political economy -- Management in the contemporary world -- Developmental states and global pressures -- State responses to globalizing pressures -- Civil society and conditions of peace -- Citizenship and public space in globalization -- Malaysia and Southeast Asia in globalization -- Summary and conclusion : globalization and states.

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging the conventional view that globalization embodies a new and inexorable process, this book analyzes the political foundations and choices involved in contemporary arrangements in the world.