Georgi M. Derluguian, Scott L. Greer

Questioning Geopolitics (eBook, PDF)

Political Projects in a Changing World-System

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization. The authors reject the notion that globalization is an analytically useful term. Rather, this volume shows globalization as merely the framework of the current political debate on the future of world power. Some of the many other novel ideas advanced by the authors include: the explicit prediction that East Asia is not going to become the center of the world; the contention that the USSR collapsed for the same reasons that nearly brought down the United States in 1973; and the notion that the regional economic networks that are emerging from under the modern states are in fact rather old formations.

The articles in the volume are organized around three main themes. Part One explores both the changing patterns of global power from the viewpoint of geopolitics and the Gramscian approach to the study of international relations. Part Two further develops the debate among a number of eminent historians and sociologists challenging both the apologists for and the opponents of globalization in new and unexpected ways. Part Three traces the emergence of regional economic networks and explores the ambiguous problems of security and identity posed by the old-new transborder formations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313019524
• Artikelnr.: 54007328

Autorenporträt

GEORGI M. DERLUGUIAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. In the last decade his research focus has shifted from early modern Portuguese exploration to patterns of state collapse and guerrilla mobilization in Mozambique, Karabagh, and Chechnya.

SCOTT L. GREER is a doctoral candidate in political science at Northwestern University, currently writing a dissertation on regionalism and the politics of territorial government in Western Europe. His research includes studies of French politics and the politics of health care.

Inhaltsangabe

Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century
by Georgi M. Derluguian and Walter Goldfrank Restructuring World Power
Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the 21st Century by Stephen
Gill Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network
Approach to Assessing Nation Status by Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventrisca,
and Brian Uzzi Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern
World-System by Randall Collins and David V. Waller Redefining World
Culture Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World
Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis by Daniel Chirot Mr.
X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking About the New Geopolitics by
Bruce Cumings Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags. A Commentary on
Benjamin Barber's "Jihad Versus McWorld" by Bernard Beck, Scott L. Greer,
and Charles Ragin Formations of Globality and Radical Politics by Arif
Dirlik From National States to Regional Networks The Rhineland, European
Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy by Michael Loriaux Slipping
into Something More Comfortable: Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration
and the Origins of the MERCOSUR by Isabella Alcañiz Mutual Benefit? African
Elites and French African Policy by Scott Greer The Geoeconomic
Reconfiguration of the State: The Asian-Pacific Transborder Subregions in
the World System by Xianming Chen The Process and the Prospects of Soviet
Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution by Georgi M. Derluguian
Index