A New World Order? - (Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System) by Jozsef Borocz & David Smith (Hardcover)

About the Book

The closing years of the 20th century will be remembered as a time of tumultuous change. The various essays are attempts to understand the changes and ground them in the context of the logic of the contemporary world-system. The essays are divided into two main themes: structural transformations and regional ramifications of global transformations. East Asia, the Pacific Rim, European periphery, and the Middle East are all examined to determine if fundamental changes are occuring. Scholars and upper level and graduate students of economic history, developmental economics, regional economics, international economics, and political economy will find provocative contrasts and insights in this collection of essays, presented at the 18th annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference.

Book Synopsis

The closing years of the 20th century will be remembered as a time of tumultuous change. The various essays are attempts to understand the changes and ground them in the context of the logic of the contemporary world-system. The essays are divided into two main themes: structural transformations and regional ramifications of global transformations. East Asia, the Pacific Rim, European periphery, and the Middle East are all examined to determine if fundamental changes are occuring. Scholars and upper level and graduate students of economic history, developmental economics, regional economics, international economics, and political economy will find provocative contrasts and insights in this collection of essays, presented at the 18th annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference.

Review Quotes

?The essays are congent and highly readable. They all examine varied aspects of the process of engagement between economic structures and peripheral centers of power, and its myriad consequences in both the short term and the long run....recommended for those who seek a bird's eye view of emerging global transformations in the late twentieth century.?-Journal of Developing Areas

"The essays are congent and highly readable. They all examine varied aspects of the process of engagement between economic structures and peripheral centers of power, and its myriad consequences in both the short term and the long run....recommended for those who seek a bird's eye view of emerging global transformations in the late twentieth century."-Journal of Developing Areas

About the Author

DAVID A. SMITH is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in urbanization, comparative-historical sociology, world-system analysis, East Asian political economy, and political sociology.

JOZSEF BOROCZ is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Hungarian Studies at Rutgers University. His special interests are international development, state socialism and its legacy, economic sociology, historical-comparative macrosociology, class and stratification, and labor and leisure migration.