Globalization and the postcolonial world : the new political economy of development /

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Author / Creator:Hoogvelt, Ankie M. M.
Imprint:Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Description:xvi, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2748181
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ISBN:0801856442 (hc : alk. paper)
0801856450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-280) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Part I. Historical Structures
  • Introduction
  • International political economy
  • The critical theory of Robert Cox: historical structure
  • Historical structure and stage theory
  • 1. The History of Capitalist Expansion
  • The political nature of the capitalist world economy
  • The dialectical development of capitalism as a world system
  • A periodisation of capitalist development and expansion
  • The mercantile phase of European expansion
  • The colonial phase of European expansion
  • Marxist theories of capitalist imperialism
  • Critiques of Marxist theories of imperialism
  • 2. Neo-colonialism, Modernisation and Dependency
  • Global economic pressures
  • Domestic tensions
  • Geo-political relations
  • Modernisation theory
  • Dependency theory
  • 3. Crisis and Restructuring: The New International Division of Labour
  • Material capabilities: global Fordism
  • Neo-colonial economic relations
  • Economic nationalism in the Third World
  • Changing geo-political relations
  • Critical theory: diversity and micro-studies
  • Gender and development
  • 'Dependency associated' development theory
  • Postimperialism and world system theories
  • Part II. Globalisation
  • Introduction
  • 4. From Expansion to Implosion
  • World trade: long-term trends
  • Foreign direct investment (FDI) and the growth of multinational enterprises
  • World capital flows: long-term indirect investments
  • Global financial deepending and the structural position of the Third World
  • Core periphery: from structural exploitation to structural irrelevance
  • 5. From Fordist to Flexible Production
  • Fordism
  • From Fordist to flexible production
  • The Japanese mode of regulation
  • Internationalisation or globalisation? The Japanese model in the world economy
  • The Regulation School
  • Flexible production and global markets
  • Flexible production and global enterprise organisation
  • Flexible production and global capital labour relations
  • 6. Globalisation
  • The sociology of globalisation
  • Roland Robertson: world compression and intensification of global consciousness
  • David Harvey: Time/space compression
  • Anthony Giddens: Time/space distantiation
  • The economics of globalisation
  • A global market discipline
  • Flexible accunulation through global webs
  • Global financial 'deepening'
  • 7. Global Regulation
  • Capital-state relations: global governance and the internationalisation of the state
  • Capital-labour relations: the new global world of work
  • Core periphery relations
  • The politics of exclusion
  • Part III. The Postcolonial World
  • Introduction
  • The postcolonial: condition and discourse
  • Postcolonial formations
  • 8. Africa: Exclusion and the Containment of Anarchy
  • Debt and the internationalisation of capital
  • Financial integration and deregulation
  • Debt crisis and solutions: the 1980s
  • The role of the IMF and the World Bank
  • Dismantling the developmental state
  • Structural adjustment in Africa: the social and economic record
  • Structural adjustment: intensifying global relations
  • Democracy and economic reform
  • Economic reform and anarchy
  • The reverse agenda of aid and global management
  • NGOs and the politics of exclusion
  • Humanitarian relief and complex political emergencies
  • 9. Islamic Revolt
  • Spiritual renewal
  • The West confronts Islam
  • Education and Orientalisation
  • The failure of dependent development
  • The rise of Islamist new intellectuals and the politics of anti-developmentalism
  • 10. The Developmental States of East Asia
  • The role of the state in economic development
  • Theories of the developmental state
  • Comparative political economy
  • International political economy
  • Limits of the East Asia developmental model
  • Regionalisation: the next lap?
  • 11. Democracy, Civil Society and Postdevelopment in Latin America
  • The Latin American intellectual left
  • Postwar developmentalism and dependency theory
  • Military regimes, internationalisation and US imperialism
  • The dance of the millions
  • The new democracy: state, civil society and market reforms
  • Civilian rule and political democracy
  • The new social movements and civil society
  • Imagining postdevelopment
  • Conclusion
  • Reconstructing universalism, regional mercantilism or postdevelopment?
  • Notes and References
  • Index