The New Political Economy of Globalisation

by Richard Higgott (Editor), Anthony Payne (Editor)

Overview

There is now emerging across the world a group of scholars whose work crosses the conventional disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences. Their model combines the breadth of vision of the classical political economy with analytical advances of modern social science. This innovative two volume collection brings together the key papers that comprise the new political economy of globalisation, identifying a competing range of concepts and theories. It will prove an invaluable source of reference to students and researchers alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840640564
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	02/20/2001
Series:	Elgar Mini Series
Pages:	1216
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Richard Higgott, The Institute for European Studies, Belgium and Anthony Payne, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:

Volume I
Acknowledgements
Introduction Richard Higgott and Anthony Payne
PART I CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
1. James N. Rosenau (1996), ‘The Dynamics of Globalization: Toward an Operational Formulation’
2. Susan Strange (1994), ‘Wake Up, Krasner! The World Has Changed’
3. Philip G. Cerny (1994), ‘The Dynamics of Financial Globalization: Technology, Market Structure, and Policy Response’
4. Eric Helleiner (1995), ‘Explaining the Globalization of Financial Markets: Bringing States Back In’
5. Robert Wade (1996), ‘Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of the National Economy are Greatly Exaggerated’
6. John Zysman (1996), ‘The Myth of a “Global” Economy: Enduring National Foundations and Emerging Regional Realities’
7. Jonathan Perraton, David Goldblatt, David Held and Anthony McGrew (1997), ‘The Globalisation of Economic Activity’
8. John Gerard Ruggie (1995), ‘At Home Abroad, Abroad at Home: International Liberalisation and Domestic Stability in the New World Economy’
9. Philip McMichael (1996), ‘Globalization: Myths and Realities’
10. Robert W. Cox (1992), ‘Global Perestroika’
11. Bob Jessop (1997), ‘Capitalism and its Future: Remarks on Regulation, Government and Governance’
PART II THE STATE
12. Louise Amoore, Richard Dodgson, Barry K. Gills, Paul Langley, Don Marshall and Iain Watson (1997), ‘Overturning “Globalisation”: Resisting the Teleological, Reclaiming the “Political’
13. Susan Strange (1995), ‘The Defective State’
14. Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson (1995), ‘Globalization and the Future of the Nation State’
15. Leo Panitch (1995), ‘Globalisation and the State’
16. Jan Aart Scholte (1997), ‘Global Capitalism and the State’
17. Peter Burnham (1999), ‘The Politics of Economic Management in the 1990s’
18. Peter Evans (1997), ‘The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization’
19. Linda Weiss (1997), ‘Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State’
20. Geoffrey Garrett (1998), ‘Shrinking States? Globalization and National Autonomy in the OECD’
21. Mark W. Zacher (1992), ‘The Decaying Pillars of the Westphalian Temple: Implications for International Order and Governance’
22. David Armstrong (1998), ‘Globalization and the Social State’
23. Michael Mann (1997), ‘Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?’
Name Index

Volume II
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editors to both volumes appears in volume I
PART I NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE
1. John Gerard Ruggie (1993), ‘Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations’
2. James N. Rosenau (1995), ‘Governance in the Twenty-first Century’
3. Paul Taylor (1999), ‘The United Nations in the 1990s: Proactive Cosmopolitanism and the Issue of Sovereignty’
4. Robert Wade (1996), ‘Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective’
5. Jan Aart Scholte (2000), ‘“In the Foothills”: Relations between the IMF and Civil Society’
6. Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe and Kermit Blank (1996), ‘European Integration from the 1980s: State-Centric v. Multi-level Governance’
7. James Anderson and James Goodman (1995), ‘Regions, States and the European Union: Modernist Reaction or Postmodern Adaptation?’
8. Saskia Sassen (1995), ‘The State and the Global City: Notes Towards a Conception of Place-Centered Governance’
9. A. Claire Cutler (1995), ‘Global Capitalism and Liberal Myths: Dispute Settlement in Private International Trade Relations’
10. Timothy J. Sinclair (1994), ‘Passing Judgement: Credit Rating Processes as Regulatory Mechanisms of Governance in the Emerging World Order’
11. Ronnie D. Lipschutz (1997), ‘From Place to Planet: Local Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance’
12. Anne-Marie Slaughter (1997), ‘The Real New World Order’
PART II NEW ACTORS, NORMS AND ISSUES
13. Lorraine Eden (1991), ‘Bringing the Firm Back In: Multinationals in International Political Economy’
14. John H. Dunning, ‘An Overview of Relations with National Governments’, Leslie Sklair, ‘TNCs As Political Actors’ and Andrew Walter, ‘Do They Really Rule the World?’ in Ankie Hoogvelt et al (1988), ‘Debate: Transnational Corporations’
15. Louis W. Pauly and Simon Reich (1997), ‘National Structures and Multinational Corporate Behavior: Enduring Differences in the Age of Globalization’
16. Jessica T. Mathews (1997), ‘Power Shift’
17. Leon Gordenker and Thomas G. Weiss (1995), ‘NGO Participation in the International Policy Process’
18. Cecelia Lynch (1998), ‘Social Movements and the Problem of Globalization’
19. Robert W. Cox (1999), ‘Civil Society at the Turn of the Millennium: Prospects for an Alternative World Order’
20. Richard Falk (1998), ‘Global Civil Society: Perspectives, Initiatives, Movements’
21. Kathryn Sikkink (1993), ‘Human Rights, Principled Issue-Networks, and Sovereignty in Latin America’
22. Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods (1995), ‘Globalisation and Inequality’
23. David Held and Anthony McGrew (1998), ‘The End of the Old Order? Globalization and the Prospects for World Order’
24. Richard Devetak and Richard Higgott (1999), ‘Justice Unbound? Globalization, States and the Transformation of the Social Bond’
Name Index

Editorial Reviews

'No subject is of more relevance to the social sciences as a whole, and none has occasioned a wider range of divergence in approach, than that of globalisation. Globalisation is not just a process of importance in its own right but one which can test the pre-existing, bounded and national, limits of academic disciplines. The impact of this question has, however, too often been at the expense of precision. The contemporary debate on globalisation is in need, above all, of anchoring in conceptual and theoretical precision, in historical perspective, in facts. It is this challenge which the present collection admirably addresses: complementing analysis of change within the international economy with debate on the continued, if altered, role of the state, it at the same time explores changing patterns of governance and the possibilities that open, in an altered international situation, for new forms of actor and norms. Higgott and Payne have produced a collection that is stimulating, focused and original.'

Fred Halliday

This two-volume set brings together the key papers that comprise the new political economy of globalization, identifying a competing range of concepts and theories. Higgott (international political economy, U. of Warwick) and Payne (politics, U. of Sheffield) present 48 articles (dating from 1991 to 2000) that combine the breadth of vision of the classical political economy of the mid-19th century with the analytical advances of 20th century social science, rejecting the old dichotomies between agency and structure and states and markets that fragmented classical political economy into separate disciplines. They also go beyond the limited distinction between critical and problem-solving theory. Volume I identifies a competing range of concepts and theories of globalization, and also considers the role of the state. Volume II explores some of the new forms of governance that are emerging as part of the process of globalization, and reviews the behavior and significance of new transnational actors and the emergency of new norms and policy issues. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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