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Author:   Robert Gwynne ,  Denis Shaw ,  Thomas Klak
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Arnold
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780340763216

ISBN 10:   0340763213
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 May 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PREFACE PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS Chapter 1: “EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES†AND ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION Chapter 2: CONCEPTUALIZING THE WORLD SYSTEM Chapter 3: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE EMERGING WORLD: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS Chapter 4: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION Chapter 5: CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Chapter 6: EAST ASIA: THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE DEVELOPMENT MODELS AND THEIR REGIONAL IMPACTS PART THREE: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE Chapter 7: TRADE LIBERALIZATION, ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATION Chapter 8: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION Chapter 9: THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION AND EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES Chapter 10: GEOGRAPHIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES Chapter 11: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE GROWTH OF SERVICES PART FOUR: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE Chapter 12: MODERNITY AND NATIONALITY Chapter 13: MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY Chapter 14: CONCLUSION: ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS AND GLOBALIZATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

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'The book fills an important niche, providing students with a rich and detailed account of the challenges faced by emerging economies in terms of economic development and democratisation in a global economy that is increasingly dominated by the world's core countries. The authors show how economics, politics, culture and historical legacies are interacting to establish a variety of pathways to development - demonstrating that globalization is not imposing uniformity on the world but, rather, making for an increasingly complex and differentiated world. Geography matters.' Paul Knox, author of Geography of the World Econom

'The book fills an important niche, providing students with a rich and detailed account of the challenges faced by emerging economies in terms of economic development and democratisation in a global economy that is increasingly dominated by the world's core countries. The authors show how economics, politics, culture and historical legacies are interacting to establish a variety of pathways to development - demonstrating that globalization is not imposing uniformity on the world but, rather, making for an increasingly complex and differentiated world. Geography matters.' Paul Knox, author of Geography of the World Econom

Author Information

Robert Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Studies at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK Thomas Klak is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Miami Univeristy - Oxford, Ohio, USA Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

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