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How do we interpret the recent changes in world politics and what
is the future likely to hold? The contributors to this volume share
an assumption that history repeats itself. The book places the
events of the past few years in broad historical context, examining
how the political, military and economic arrangements of the past
are reflected in current events. By tracing historical patterns in
Western Europe, Russia, East Asia, Latin America and the United
States, the contributors aim to provide a new perspective on the
pressing questions and conflicts that characterize international
politics now and in the years to come.
How do we interpret the recent changes in world politics and what
is the future likely to hold? The contributors to this volume share
an assumption that history repeats itself. The book places the
events of the past few years in broad historical context, examining
how the political, military and economic arrangements of the past
are reflected in current events. By tracing historical patterns in
Western Europe, Russia, East Asia, Latin America and the United
States, the contributors aim to provide a new perspective on the
pressing questions and conflicts that characterize international
politics now and in the years to come.
The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian
politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between
Catholicism, Socialism, and nationalism is essential reading for
anyone interested in Europe before World War I.
Developmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for
economic advancement, intervenes in industrial affairs.The notion
of the developmental state has come under attack in recent years.
Critics charge that Japan's success in putting this notion into
practice has not been replicated elsewhere, that the concept
threatens the purity of freemarket economics, and that its
shortcomings have led to financial turmoil in Asia. In this
informative and thought-provoking book, a team of distinguished
scholars revisits this notion to assess its continuing utility and
establish a common vocabulary for debates on these issues. Drawing
on new political and economic theories and emphasizing recent
events, the authors examine the East Asian experience to show how
the developmental state involves a combination of political,
bureaucratic, and moneyed influences that shape economic life in
the region. Taking as its point of departure Chalmers Johnson's
account of the Japanese developmental state, the book explores the
interplay of forces that have determined the structure of
opportunity in the region. The authors critically address the
argument for centralized political involvement in industrial
development (with a new contribution by Johnson), describe the
historical impact of colonialism and the Cold War, consider new
ideas in economics, and compare the experiences of East Asian
countries with those of France, Brazil, Mexico, and India.
This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking
acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.'
Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles
that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the
contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human
costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic
boom. In evaluating the idea of 'Asia Pacific,' the book shifts our
focus from abstract relationships between capital and commodities
to the human interactions that have played a formative part in the
region's constitution. The contributors agree that it is these
interactions that constitute the region, rather than the physical
boundaries of the Pacific. This revised and updated edition brings
in additional essays focusing on conceptualizations of the Pacific,
considers more fully interactions among countries, and strongly
emphasizes peoples within the Pacific, who are routinely ignored in
most discussions of the 'Rim.'
Japan, South Korea, Mexico, France, and Spain once exercised
significant control over the allocation of credit, and used that
control to facilitate economic adjustment and industrial
development. In the 1980s all that changed. Why and how these
states dismantled their activist credit policies is the subject of
Capital Ungoverned. The volume brings together five specialists in
the economics and politics of these various states to assess the
internal and global changes that prompted them to adopt financial
liberalization.Comparison reveals the distinctive political and
institutional logic that guided liberalization in each country from
the role of a newly dominant capitalist class in Korea to the
replacement of state financing by private financing and
self-financing in Japan, from the maneuvers of the banking
establishment in Spain to attempts to attract foreign capital in
Mexico. At the same time, these cases clarify the importance of
international factors, in particular the shifts that occurred in
U.S. policy as it sought to respond to the effects of uneven growth
in the world economy."
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