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Governing under Stress - Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization (Paperback, New Ed)
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Governing under Stress - Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Globalization and the Semi-Periphery
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This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international
comparative research project exploring the political economy of
globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing
on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social,
cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, 'semi-peripheral'
countries share two qualities: they are conscious of their
subordination to the hegemonic powers at the centre of the global
system - the United States and the European Union; they are also
strong enough to have some ability to resist their domination. The
structural position of these middle powers in global capitalism is
unlike those countries at the centre that do not experience
domination, and different from those Third World countries on the
periphery that have no means to achieve more cultural and political
autonomy, more distinctive and diversified development, or greater
social equity and better income redistribution. Four countries in
North America, Central America, Europe and the Antipodes - namely
Canada, Mexico, Norway and Australia - have been selected in order
to explore the complexities of globalization from the perspective
of the semi-periphery. Opening chapters examine the international
institutions, including the North America Free Trade Agreement, the
World Trade Organization and the European Union, which now amount
to a quasi-constitutional conditioning framework for middle powers
under globalization. In the second part, contributors detail the
pressures with which these countries have to cope and consider
their ability to pursue policies appropriate to the needs and
democratically defined goals of each. And in the concluding part,
after discussing the new economic, political and social issues of
'governing under stress', they appraise the possibilities for
middle powers to chart distinctive national courses in the face of
globalization's constraining challenge.
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