The world turned upside down?: Globalization and the future of the state

by R. Jones

Overview

This book interrogates the widespread claim that contemporary globalization has ended the centrality of the state in world affairs and is effectively irreversible. It offers discriminating definitions of globalization, internationalization and international interdependence and demonstrates the analytical and empirical difficulties generated by these concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719051012
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	04/13/2000
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.43(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

R. J. Barry Jones is Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Part I : Globalization—Concepts, Precedents, Origins and Implications * The Problem of Globalization * Then and Now—Continuity and Discontinuity in the International Political Economy * The Roots of Globalization * The Ambiguous Impact of Globalization * Part II : State Action in Question * The Traditional Purposes of State Action * Traditional Forms of State Action * Part III : The Future of State Action * Governance and the Future of State Action: Needs * Modes of Governance in a Globalising World * "State Action" in an Unmanageable World * Order, Disorder and Globalization: The South East Asian Crisis of 1997/8

Part I : Globalization—Concepts, Precedents, Origins and Implications * The Problem of Globalization * Then and Now—Continuity and Discontinuity in the International Political Economy * The Roots of Globalization * The Ambiguous Impact of Globalization * Part II : State Action in Question * The Traditional Purposes of State Action * Traditional Forms of State Action * Part III : The Future of State Action * Governance and the Future of State Action: Needs * Modes of Governance in a Globalising World * "State Action" in an Unmanageable World * Order, Disorder and Globalization: The South East Asian Crisis of 1997/8

Editorial Reviews

..."will be an important source of information for academic readers, as well as the general public."--Petr Reimer, Journal of International Relations and Development


., ."will be an important source of information for academic readers, as well as the general public."--Petr Reimer, Journal of International Relations and Development

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