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Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors vii viii Introduction 1 Owen Worth and Phoebe Moore Part I Theoretical Reflections: Globalisation and the Semi-Periphery 1 Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery? 9 Owen Worth 2 Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery 25 Hugo Radice 3 Globalisation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis? 40 Gerard Strange Part II Globalisation and Change in the Semi-Periphery 4 The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina 61 Ernesto Vivares 5 Economic Development in the East Asian (Semi)Periphery: Reintroducing Dependency as a Conceptual Tool of Analysis 82 Jason P. Abbott 6 China and India The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery? 102 Gerard Downes v
vi Contents 7 Upper Volta with Gas? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State 120 Rick Simon 8 Turkey in the World System and the New Orientalism 138 Phoebe Moore and Charles Dannreuther Part III New Semi-Peripheral Developments and Possible Futures 9 CEE as a New Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland s Transition 159 Stuart Shields 10 A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and Lines of Flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres 177 William Vlcek 11 Toward a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World-System 198 Kirk Lawrence 12 Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy 213 Christopher Chase-Dunn and Terry Boswell Bibliography 233 Index 259
Acknowledgements As we mention in the introduction this book began life as a workshop held at the Kilmurry Lodge Hotel in Limerick, Ireland in March 2006. We would like to thank the department of Politics and Public Administration at Limerick and particularly Neil Robinson for sponsoring the event. We have also developed the ideas here with the contributors at subsequent panels at the International Studies Association (New York 2009). There were a number of paper givers at both events who have not featured in this book, but have made significant contributions to its development as a collection. In particular, we would like to thank Neil Robinson (again), Kevin Gray, Marina Blagojevic, Chris Farrands, Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson and Or Raviv. We would also like to thank Kyle Murray for his contribution to the debates. At Palgrave we would like to thank Alexandra Webster and Renée Takken for their help and commitment to the project. Finally, we would like to thank the International Political Economy series editor, Tim Shaw for his support and interest towards the book. Owen Worth Phoebe Moore vii
Notes on Contributors Dr Jason P. Abbott is currently lecturing in International Politics and Political Economy at the University of Surrey. His publications include The Political Economy of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific (Greenwood, 2004), Developmentalism and Dependency in South East Asia (Routledge, 2003), and State Strategies in the Global Political Economy (Palgrave, 1999 with Dr Ronen Palan). He is also the co-editor with Owen Worth of Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy (Palgrave, 2002), and Offshore Finance Centres and Tax Havens: The Rise of Global Capital (Palgrave, 1999 with Mark Hampton). Jason has also published in Asian Affairs, Asian Studies Review, Development Policy Review, Pacifica Review, Roundtable: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Security Dialogue and Third World Quarterly. Terry Boswell (1955 2006) was a Professor in Sociology at the University of Emory, who wrote extensively on labour organisation and world-systems analysis. He was author of a number of books and over 40 articles, including The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Towards Global Democracy (with Christopher Chase-Dunn, Lynne Rienner, 2000). Christopher Chase-Dunn is a distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of Riverside in California. He is the founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over a dozen books, including Global Formations: Structures of the World Economy (Blackwell, 1998), Rise and Demise: Comparing World Systems (Westview) and The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Towards Global Democracy (Lynne Rienner, 2000). Charles Dannreuther is Lecturer in European Political Economy at the University of Leeds, working in the area of EU studies and EU enlargement. His work has been published in Comparative European Politics and Competition and Change. Gerard Downes teaches political science at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He recently completed a PhD on the World Trade Organization s viii
Notes on Contributors ix (WTO) Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) which assessed the impact of the agreement on product and process patents on pharmaceuticals in India. Kirk Lawrence is a graduate student in sociology at the University of California, Riverside. His emphases are in political economy and theory, with particular interest in the interaction of humans and the biosphere during the evolution of world-systems. Phoebe Moore is Lecturer in International Relations for University of Salford, and has served on the Editorial Board for Capital and Class since 2006. Her recent publications include the hosting of the special issue titled Visions of Peer to Peer Production (January 2009) and the monograph International Political Economy of Employability: Skills Revolutions, East and West (Palgrave Macmillan IPE series, forthcoming). Hugo Radice is Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, working in the fields of international political economy and Marxist theory. Recent papers include The developmental state under global neoliberalism, Third World Quarterly 29/6, 2008; and Life after death: The Soviet system in British higher education, International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy 3/2, 2008. Stuart Shields is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester, specialising in the area of Eastern Europe and IPE. His most recent work has been published in Global Society and Competition and Change and his book The Political Economy of Transition was published by Routledge in 2009. He is also the convenor for the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) for the British International Studies Association (BISA). Rick Simon teaches Politics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Labour and Political Transformation in Russia and Ukraine (Ashgate 2000). He is particularly interested in state formation and in the political economy of Russia. Gerard Strange is Reader in Political Economy at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has written extensively on critical analyses of globalization, regionalism, political ecology and British trade union engagement with the political economy of European Union.
x Notes on Contributors Ernesto Vivares is a Teaching Associate in Development Studies at the University of Bath. He completed PhD at the University of Sheffield on South America and neoliberal World Order. William Vlcek was Lecturer in International Politics at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, when his contribution was completed. He is the author of Offshore Finance and Small States: Sovereignty, Size and Money (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Owen Worth is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia (Ashgate, 2005) and has authored a number of articles. His most recent work has appeared in International Politics, Third World Quarterly and Review of International Studies.