The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers: Globalisation, Us Power and the Global North-South Divide

ISBN-13: 9783319340111 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 111 str.

Ray Kiely

Opis

This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular. Drawing on critical theories of international relations and development, Kiely puts the rise into context and shows how the factors that aided the rise of the South have now given way to a less favourable international context. Indeed, economic problems in China and other leading countries, falling commodity prices and capital outflows point us in the direction of identifying a new phase of the 2008 financial crisis: an emerging markets crisis. Kiely argues that this is a crisis which demonstrates the continued dependent position of the South in the context of the uneven and combined development of international capitalism.

Spis treści

1.Introduction

2.The ‘rise of the South’ and international relations and development theory  

 (i)Rise of the South, decline of the US: an introduction

(ii)The Rise of the South and International Relations theory

(iii)The Rise of the South and Development theory

(iv)Modernisation, dependency and the BRICS: some preliminary observations 

3.Questioning the rise of the South I: economic globalisation and US power

(i)The question of (the political economy of) globalisation

(ii)Differential power and globalisation: the question of corporate ownership

(iii)Conclusion: corporate ownership, globalisation and modernisation and dependency revisited

4.Questioning the rise of the South II: from emerging markets boom to emerging markets crisis   

(i)The emerging markets boom

(ii)The emerging markets crisis

(iii)Conclusion

5.Questioning the rise of the South III: the question of global inequality  

(i)Inequality: international, national and global

(ii)International inequality: the limits of the Rising South thesis re-visited

(iii)Conclusion: Global Inequality and the Rise of the South

6.Conclusion: Theorising the changing global North-South divide 

(i)US power and IR theory re-visited

(ii)Rising South, globalisation and development theory revisited: modernisation and dependency

(iii)The global North-South divide and uneven and combined development

(iv)Emerging markets and the North-South divide: from boom to bust

O autorze

Ray Kiely is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of eight previous books including Rethinking Imperialism (2010), and The BRICS, US ‘Decline’ and Global Transformations (2015).

Blurb

This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular. Drawing on critical theories of international relations and development, Kiely puts the rise into context and shows how the factors that aided the rise of the South have now given way to a less favourable international context. Indeed, economic problems in China and other leading countries, falling commodity prices and capital outflows point us in the direction of identifying a new phase of the 2008 financial crisis: an emerging markets crisis. Kiely argues that this is a crisis which demonstrates the continued dependent position of the South in the context of the uneven and combined development of international capitalism.

Ray Kiely is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of eight previous books including Rethinking Imperialism (2010), and The BRICS, US ‘Decline’ and Global Transformations (2015).