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Author:   Andrew C. Sobel
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   CQ Press
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9781568028613

ISBN 10:   156802861
Pages:   453
Publication Date:   15 October 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART ONE: BUILDING BLOCKS Introduction: Concepts, History, and Social Science Assumptions, Rationality, and Context Structure of the International System Power and Hierarchy in the International System Economic Liberalism and Exchange in the Global Arena Baseline Framework: Political Markets and Exchange PART TWO: CONTEXT Around the World in Eighty Days: The Advent of Globalization The World Between the Wars: A Breakdown in Globalization The Bretton Woods System: The Rebuilding of Globalization The World Post–Bretton Woods: Globalization Advances Détente and the End of the Cold War: Globalization During Transition PART THREE: MICRO TOOLS Political and Economic Market Failure and Social Traps Dilemma of Collective Goods, Solutions, and Hegemonic Stability Interest Groups and International Economic Foundations of Political Cleavage Institutions

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Andrew C. Sobel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is associate professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also resident fellow in the Center in Political Economy at Washington University and serves on the board of the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences. He specializes in the politics of international finance with a focus on domestic explanations of international behavior. His books include Domestic Choices, International Markets (1994) and State Institutions, Private Incentives, Global Capital (1999). Sobel′s current research is comparing globalization in the late 1800s and late 1900s and its relationship to the modern social welfare state, and investigating the linkages between democracy and growth.

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