Globalization and the 'new' semi-peripheries
By: edited by Owen Worth, Phoebe Moore.
Contributors: Worth, Owen, 1974-; Moore, Phoebe V.
Series: International political economy series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780230220751
Subjects: Globalization -- Economic aspects; Globalization -- Political aspects; Globalization -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Economic policy; Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-258) and index.