Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System

by Georgi M. Derluguian, Scott L. Greer

Overview

This volume takes an enlightened step back from the ongoing discussion of globalization. The authors reject the notion that globalization is an analytically useful term. Rather, this volume shows globalization as merely the framework of the current political debate on the future of world power. Some of the many other novel ideas advanced by the authors include: the explicit prediction that East Asia is not going to become the center of the world; the contention that the USSR collapsed for the same reasons that nearly brought down the United States in 1973; and the notion that the regional economic networks that are emerging from under the modern states are in fact rather old formations.

The articles in the volume are organized around three main themes. Part One explores both the changing patterns of global power from the viewpoint of geopolitics and the Gramscian approach to the study of international relations. Part Two further develops the debate among a number of eminent historians and sociologists challenging both the apologists for and the opponents of globalization in new and unexpected ways. Part Three traces the emergence of regional economic networks and explores the ambiguous problems of security and identity posed by the old-new transborder formations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275966560
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/2000
Series:	Contributions in Economics & Economic History S
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

GEORGI M. DERLUGUIAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. In the last decade his research focus has shifted from early modern Portuguese exploration to patterns of state collapse and guerrilla mobilization in Mozambique, Karabagh, and Chechnya.

SCOTT L. GREER is a doctoral candidate in political science at Northwestern University, currently writing a dissertation on regionalism and the politics of territorial government in Western Europe. His research includes studies of French politics and the politics of health care.

Table of Contents

Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the 21st Century by Georgi M. Derluguian and Walter Goldfrank
Restructuring World Power
Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the 21st Century by Stephen Gill
Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status by Michael Alan Sacks, Marc Ventrisca, and Brian Uzzi
Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System by Randall Collins and David V. Waller
Redefining World Culture
Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis by Daniel Chirot
Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking About the New Geopolitics by Bruce Cumings
Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags. A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's "Jihad Versus McWorld" by Bernard Beck, Scott L. Greer, and Charles Ragin
Formations of Globality and Radical Politics by Arif Dirlik
From National States to Regional Networks
The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy by Michael Loriaux
Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the MERCOSUR by Isabella Alcañiz
Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy by Scott Greer
The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the State: The Asian-Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World System by Xianming Chen
The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution by Georgi M. Derluguian
Index