Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries (International Political Economy Series)

The Semi-periphery, In The Form Of A State Or A Production Zone Within The Middle Tiers Of World Production Was Traditionally Regarded As A Mediator Between The Advanced And The 'underdeveloped' Parts Of The World And Was Often Marked By Instability And As A Potential Revolutionary Agent. Work And Production Continue To Divide The Rich And The Poor, But The Actual Methods And Possibility For The Anti-systemic Change Of Globalizing Capitalism Is Revisited In This Book. Contributors To This Volume Speak To One Another Across Chapters To Ask What Exactly The Relevance Of The Semi-periphery Will Be. Will It Be A Transformative Entity Or Not, In The Context Of The Emergence Of 'globalization' And Specific 'world Orders' As Forms Of Explanations Within World Politics? 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. Part I. Theoretical Reflections: Globalisation And The Semi-periphery -- 1. Whatever Happened To The Semi-periphery? / Owen Worth -- 2. Halfway To Paradise? Making Sense Of The Semi-periphery / Hugo Radice -- 3. Globalisation, Accumulation By Dispossession And The Rise Of The Semi-periphery: Towards Global Post-fordism And Crisis? / Gerard Strange -- Part Ii. Globalisation And Change In The Semi-periphery -- 4. The South American Semi-periphery: Brazil And Argentina / Ernesto Vivares -- 5. Economic Development In The East Asian (semi) Periphery: Reintroducing Dependency As A Conceptual Tool Of Analysis / Jason P. Abbott -- 6. China And India -- The New Powerhouses Of The Semi-periphery? / Gerard Downes -- 7. 'upper Volta With Gas'? Russia As A Semi-peripheral State / Rick Simon -- 8. Turkey In The World System And The New Orientalism / Phoebe Moore, Charles Dannreuther -- Part Iii. New Semi-peripheral Developments And Possible Futures -- 9. Cee As A New Semi-periphery: Transnational Social Forces And Poland's Transition / Stuart Shields -- 10. A Semi-periphery To Global Capital: Global Governance And Lines Of Flight For Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres / William Vlcek -- 11. Toward A Democratic And Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-peripheral Transformation In A Post-peak World-system / Kirk Lawrence -- 12. Semi-peripheral Development And Global Democracy / Christopher Chase-dunn, Terry Boswell. Edited By Owen Worth, Phoebe Moore. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 233-258) And Index.