Globalization and the ‘New’ Semi-Peripheries

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery?....Pages 9-24
Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery....Pages 25-39
Globalisation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis?....Pages 40-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina....Pages 61-81
Economic Development in the East Asian (Semi)Periphery: Reintroducing Dependency as a Conceptual Tool of Analysis....Pages 82-101
China and India — The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery?....Pages 102-119
‘Upper Volta with Gas’? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State....Pages 120-137
Turkey in the World System and the New Orientalism....Pages 138-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
CEE as a New Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland’s Transition....Pages 159-176
A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and Lines of Flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres....Pages 177-197
Toward a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World-System....Pages 198-212
Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy....Pages 213-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-271