Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries write by O. Worth. This book was released on 2009-08-14. Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.
The Rise of China
The Rise of China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of China write by Xing Li. This book was released on 2012. The Rise of China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the rise of China and its transformative impact on almost all areas of global political, economic, and social life. The book looks at some very important questions, such as: Will the rise of China lead to the sinicization of the international regime and the liberal order, due to its historical transformation from a semi-periphery position to becoming part of the core of the capitalist world system? * Will China be a cooperative actor or a disruptive one? A force for continuity or a force for change? * Is China displaying an alternative development model to all other developing countries? * Does China's ascent represent a new "beginning of history" rather than "end of history?" * Will the rise of China lead to the peripherization of existing semi-periphery countries? And to the altering of the traditional pattern of relationships between the exiting West-based world order and the developing world?
Development and Semi-Periphery
Development and Semi-Periphery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development and Semi-Periphery write by Renato Raul Boschi. This book was released on 2012. Development and Semi-Periphery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of articles focusing on comparative analysis of the development trajectories in the semi-periphery countries of South America and Central and Eastern Europe.
Governing under Stress
Governing under Stress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing under Stress write by Marjorie Griffin Cohen. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Governing under Stress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, 'semi-peripheral' countries share two qualities: they are conscious of their subordination to the hegemonic powers at the centre of the global system - the United States and the European Union; they are also strong enough to have some ability to resist their domination. The structural position of these middle powers in global capitalism is unlike those countries at the centre that do not experience domination, and different from those Third World countries on the periphery that have no means to achieve more cultural and political autonomy, more distinctive and diversified development, or greater social equity and better income redistribution. Four countries in North America, Central America, Europe and the Antipodes - namely Canada, Mexico, Norway and Australia - have been selected in order to explore the complexities of globalization from the perspective of the semi-periphery. Opening chapters examine the international institutions, including the North America Free Trade Agreement, the World Trade Organization and the European Union, which now amount to a quasi-constitutional conditioning framework for middle powers under globalization. In the second part, contributors detail the pressures with which these countries have to cope and consider their ability to pursue policies appropriate to the needs and democratically defined goals of each. And in the concluding part, after discussing the new economic, political and social issues of 'governing under stress', they appraise the possibilities for middle powers to chart distinctive national courses in the face of globalization's constraining challenge.
Remapping Gender in the New Global Order
Remapping Gender in the New Global Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remapping Gender in the New Global Order write by Marjorie Griffin-Cohen. This book was released on 2007-06-11. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces. Individual countries obviously face challenges that are to some extent unique, although the prescriptions for economic and social restructuring are based on a common competitive logic. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order draws on examples from four countries on the semi-periphery of power but still located in the top category of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. At one end is Norway, one of the world’s richest and most developed welfare-states, and, at the other, is Mexico, a country that is considerably poorer and more susceptible to the power of the United States and international agencies. Australia and Canada, the other two semi-peripheral countries examined, are in the middle. Also included are comparisons with the epicentre of the ‘core’ base of power – the United States. The individual chapters focus on the effect on specific groups of people, including males and indigenous groups, the mechanisms people use to both cope with dramatic social changes, and the strategies and alliances that are used to affect the course of changes. It covers topics that range from implications of labour migration on care regimes to globalism’s effect on masculinity and the ‘male breadwinner’ model.
