Globalization and the ‘New’ Semi-Peripheries

1. Introduction
Owen Worth, Phoebe Moore

Part I. Theoretical Reflections: Globalisation and the Semi-Periphery

2. Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery?
Owen Worth

3. Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery
Hugo Radice

4. Globalisation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis?
Gerard Strange

Part II. Globalisation and Change in the Semi-Periphery

5. The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina
Ernesto Vivares

6. Economic Development in the East Asian (Semi)Periphery: Reintroducing Dependency as a Conceptual Tool of Analysis
Jason P. Abbott

7. China and India — The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery?
Gerard Downes

8. ‘Upper Volta with Gas’? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State
Rick Simon

9. Turkey in the World System and the New Orientalism
Phoebe Moore, Charles Dannreuther

Part III. New Semi-Peripheral Developments and Possible Futures

10. CEE as a New Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland’s Transition
Stuart Shields

11. A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and Lines of Flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres
William Vlcek

12. Toward a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World-System
Kirk Lawrence

13. Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Terry Boswell

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology, general, Globalization