Re-Envisioning Global Development: A Horizontal Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415467650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 312 str.

Sandra Halperin

Opis

This book is a comprehensive account of development in a global context. It explains the contemporary realities and likely future of the developing world and also explores the historical processes and economic dynamics which have led to this.

Spis treści

1. Global Development  2. The Origins and Development of Capitalism  3. Industrialization and the Expansion of Capital: Core and Periphery Re-Defined  4. City States and Nationalism  5. The Imperial Historic Bloc of the Nineteenth Century  6. The System Unravels: Contraction, Conflict and Social Revolution  7. The Post-World War II Interregnum  8. Globalization Redux

O autorze

Sandra Halperin is Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests include global development and the historical sociology of global relations. She is the author of Political Research (with Oliver Heath, Oxford University Press, 2012), War and Social Change in Modern Europe: the great transformation revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2004); In the Mirror of the Third World: Capitalist Development in Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 1997); Global Civil Society and Its Limits (co-edited with Gordon Laxer, Palgrave/Macmillan 2003), and articles on contemporary Middle East politics, Islam, dermocracy, nationalism, ethnic conflict, state-building, historical sociology, and globalisation.