Governing Under Stress: Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization

Marjorie Griffin Cohen & Stephen Clarkson (editors)

ISBN 10: 184277302X / ISBN 13: 9781842773024

Edité par Zed Books, London, 2004

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No dust jacket as issued. Certain countries are characterized by the distinctive structural condition of semi-peripherality. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, semi-peripheral countries share a consciousness of subordination to the centre - specifically the United States - as well as the means to resist. This differentiates them from both those countries at the centre which lack any such consciousness, and poor and powerless countries on the periphery. The contributors to this volume focus on four countries in North America, Central America, Europe and the Antipodes - namely Canada, Mexico, Norway and Australia. They examine the international institutions, including NAFTA, the WTO and the EU, forming the framework for globalization. They detail the constraints facing these countries and the possibilities for pursuing their own independent policies. They discuss the new economic, political and social issues of governance that are emerging, and the possibilities for the future. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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• Titre: Governing Under Stress: Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization
• Éditeur: Zed Books, London
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 184277302X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781842773024
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: Picture Boards
• Type de livre: Book
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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Professor Stephen Clarkson is in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto. He was awarded the Canada-USA Fulbright Scholarship in 1999-2000, the Killam Senior Research Fellowship in 1999-2001 and the Woodrow Wilson International Fellowship in 2000-2001. Marjorie Griffin Cohen is an economist who is professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She was Department Chair of Women's Studies from 1996-1999. She has published widely in her fields.