Questioning geopolitics : political projects in a changing world-system / edited by Georgi M. Derluguian and Scott L. Greer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the Twenty- first Century; RESTRUCTURING WORLD POWER; Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the Twenty- first Century; Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status; Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World- System; REDEFINING WORLD CULTURE; Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis

Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking about the New GeopoliticsRadicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags: A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld; Formations of Globality and Radical Politics; FROM NATIONAL STATES TO REGIONAL NETWORKS?; The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy; Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine- Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the MERCOSUR; Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy

The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the Semiperiphery: The Asian- Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World- SystemThe Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors and Contributors

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