Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries -

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
PHOEBE MOORE?is a lecturer?in International Relations at the University of Salford, UK. She has published work on Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, labour struggle, and work in peer-to-peer production. Her interdisciplinary approach allows her to now read labour process theory and to write about the sociology of work in the international as well as virtual worlds.
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OWEN WORTH?is?a lecturer of International Relations at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia (2005) and co-editor (with Jason P. Abbott) of Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy (2002).

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; P.Moore & O.Worth PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE SEMI-PERIPHERY Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery?; O.Worth Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery; H.Radice Globalisation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis?; G.Strange PART II: GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE IN THE SEMI-PERIPHERY The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina; E.Vivares Economic Development in the East Asian (semi) Periphery; J.P.Abbott China and India: The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery; G.Downes 'Upper Volta with Gas'? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State; R.Simon Turkey in the World System and the New Orientation; P.Moore& C.Dannreuther PART III: NEW SEMI-PERIPHERAL DEVELOPMENTS AND POSSIBLE FUTURE CEE as a new Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland's Transition; S.Shields A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and lines of flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres; W.Vlcek Towards a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World- System; K.Lawrence Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy; C.Chase-Dunn ?& ?T.Boswell Bibliography Index