Record Nr.

UNINA9910823919403321

Autore

Thompson William R.

Titolo

The emergence of the global political economy / / William R. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-61086-6

1-134-61085-8

1-280-31716-7

0-585-45301-2

0-203-45302-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 252 p. : ill

Collana

International relations and history series

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

International economic relations - History

Globalization - History

Economic history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

part Part I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- chapter 1 K-WAVES, LEADERSHIP CYCLES, AND GLOBAL WAR -- An orientation -- chapter 2 EVOLUTIONARY AND COEVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS -- part Part II THE ASCENDANCE OF WESTERN EUROPE -- chapter 3 THE 1490s -- A question of evolutionary (dis)continuity? -- chapter 4 THE DIVERGENT COEVOLUTION OF TWO EURASIAN REGIONS -- chapter 5 THE MILITARY SUPERIORITY THESIS -- part Part III THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE SEQUENCE -- chapter 6 THE EMERGENCE OF A CHALLENGE PROCESS -- chapter 7 MOUNTAINS OF GOLD AND IRON -- chapter 8 CHALLENGES IN THE ACTIVE ZONE -- part Part IV STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND EVOLUTION -- chapter 9 BRITAIN AS A SYSTEM LEADER IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- chapter 10 THE ANGLO-AMERICAN RIVALRY BEFORE WORLD WAR I -- chapter 11 PASSING THE TORCH IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING -- The system leader lineage.

Sommario/riassunto

The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges the assumption that the international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead this volume asserts that the current global political economy began to take shape around 1500 and that some of

today's key processes were already perceivable several hundred years ago. The book explains the interdependence between long-term economic growth, global political leadership and global war and how this interdependence has evolved over the last 500 years, and includes discussion of: *the ascendence of Western Europe and the significance of the 1490s *the military superiority thesis *sequences of leadership and of challenge to the global political economy *the importance of commodities from sugar and cloth to slaves and bullion *the Anglo-American rivalry until the First World War.