Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Owen Worth, Phoebe Moore

      Pages 1-5

3. Theoretical Reflections: Globalisation and the Semi-Periphery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery?

      • Owen Worth

      Pages 9-24

   3. Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery

      • Hugo Radice

      Pages 25-39

   4. Globalisation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis?

      • Gerard Strange

      Pages 40-57

4. Globalisation and Change in the Semi-Periphery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina

      • Ernesto Vivares

      Pages 61-81

   3. Economic Development in the East Asian (Semi)Periphery: Reintroducing Dependency as a Conceptual Tool of Analysis

      • Jason P. Abbott

      Pages 82-101

   4. China and India — The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery?

      • Gerard Downes

      Pages 102-119

   5. ‘Upper Volta with Gas’? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State

      • Rick Simon

      Pages 120-137

   6. Turkey in the World System and the New Orientalism

      • Phoebe Moore, Charles Dannreuther

      Pages 138-156

5. New Semi-Peripheral Developments and Possible Futures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. CEE as a New Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland’s Transition

      • Stuart Shields

      Pages 159-176

   3. A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and Lines of Flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres

      • William Vlcek

      Pages 177-197

   4. Toward a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World-System

      • Kirk Lawrence

      Pages 198-212

   5. Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy

      • Christopher Chase-Dunn, Terry Boswell

      Pages 213-232

6. Back Matter

   Pages 233-271

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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.

• democracy
• globalization
• Governance
• Nation
• politics
• transformation
• transition
• Transnational

• University of Limerick, Ireland

  Owen Worth

• University of Salford, UK

  Phoebe Moore

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.
 
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).

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