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Title: The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-System, 1945-2025 by Terence K. Hopkins, Immanuel Wallerstein, John Casparis, Georgi M. Derlugian, Satoshi Ikeda, Richard Lee, Sheila Pelizzon, Thomas Reifer, Jamie Sudler, Faruk Tabak ISBN: 1-85649-439-X Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Summary: The choices we need to make over the next 25 years
Comment: This is an important albeit not uncontroversial contribution to the field of international political economy. The book tries to answer the question whether the world capitalist system is in crisis and the paths available for future world development. The works are firmly located within the world system thesis expounded by Wallerstein in many of his previous works.
The book intoruduces the concept of 6 vectors within which future paths can be examined. These are the inter-state system; world production; world labour force; human welfare; cohesion of states; and the structures of knowledge.
The book displays the weaknesses inherent in the world system thesis. These include overstating the degree of integration of the economies of the world and thus not taking into account the emergence of "non-states" run either by armed bandits or by organised crime.
The book does not deal adequately with the current state of the state. Given the debate around MNCs and their increasing expansion into areas which were the domain of the state this is an issue needing serious appraisal.
The depiction of this era as being a post US hegemonic era is also an area which will be contested by many writers, not least of all the Fukuyama's of the world.
Wallerstein concludes that the future depends onm how the following factors develop: * the extent to which there is loyalty to citizenship;
* the level of security through police order; the extent to which military orders are maintained; * level of welfare especially in relation to health and food distribution; * stability of religious institutions.
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Title: The New Imperialism (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies) by David Harvey ISBN: 0199264317 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann ISBN: 1859845827 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates) by Gopal Balakrishnan, Stanley Aronowitz ISBN: 1859844529 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 04 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805075593 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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