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Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism
Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer draws attention to a hitherto underresearched factor: economic liberalization. Being part of a global shift from state-led development towards structural adjustment in the economy, these policies also deeply affected the countries of the MENA region. This makes the resilience of authoritarianism in the region all the more puzzling, as a large part of the scientific community expected economic liberalization to undermine authoritarian regimes. Neugebauer strives to solve the puzzle with a comparative case study that covers four countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco) and their political regimes, from independence in the 1950s to the Arab Spring in 2011. He shows that two specific policies of economic liberalization might in fact have been relevant for regime stability: consumer-price liberalization and privatization.
After Globalization: The Future of World Society
After several decades of significantly increasing global economic, socio-cultural, and political integration, the globalization pendulum is swinging back. But what comes “After Globalization”? The 26 chapters of this volume, originally presented at the Word Society Foundation’s 40th anniversary celebration in 2022, address from different angles four core issues of “deglobalization”: First, the re-conceptualization of world society and globalization within the current context of deglobalization. Second, the dynamics that are (re)shaping the world-economy, including processes of fragmentation, regionalization, reshoring, and global and regional polarization. Third, the current dynamics of global social and cultural structures, including new globalization cleavages, political mobilization, popular protest and resistance, and political participation and democracy. Fourth, the increasing great power conflicts and global rivalries and their impact on processes of (de)globalization.
The European Union and Global Social Change
This book examines just what the European Union is, in the context of the ongoing structural transformation of the global system. The author develops an integrated approach to global transformations, drawing on geopolitics, political geography, international relations, economics, economic and political history, political economy and macro-sociology to discuss how this supra-state organisation, that shares and pools the sovereignty of some of the wealthiest states of the modern world, makes sense. The book: Interprets the ongoing transformation of west European public authority in the context of the global geopolitical economy of competition, cooperation and conflict Examines the consequences...
Globalization, the Human Condition and Sustainable Development in the Twenty-first Century
‘Globalization, the Human Condition and Sustainable Development in the Twenty-first Century: Cross-national Perspectives and European Implications’ is a cross-national, 175-nation-based exploration of the deep crisis in which Europe currently finds itself. Investigating the effects of dependency theory and world-systems theory upon the global success of eight dimensions of development – including democracy, environmental sustainability, employment, social cohesion, high-quality tertiary education and gender justice – this study argues that the current European crisis has been precipitated by the pro-globalist policies of the European Commission, and that in the near future these policies threaten to enter Europe into a destructive ‘race to the bottom’.
Decentering European studies
Sinopse Scholars gather here from places ranging from East Asia to South America to write about Europe from their respective disciplinary, national, and geographic perspectives. Looking in from the “Global South” and Europe’s peripheries, they investigate an array of topics along three axes—the construction of Europe from its so-called margins, the European Union seen through an external gaze, and comparative policymaking. They use their diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds to analyze ideas, images, and visions of Europe, while relying on various theoretical and methodological orientations to scrutinize European institutions, structures, dynamics, policies, and integration and...
Culture and Politics in Economic Development
In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries. The book is a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on social capital, trust and democracy and will be of interest to those in the fields of economics, sociology, politics and development studies.
The New International Economy
The essays in The New International Economy deal with the multinational economy and the changes coming over it. The authors present evidence that multinationals depress the economies of host developing countries and discuss the problems these trans-national giants create for labour movements. Case studies of Brazil and Quebec show local effects of the new international order. Preference for advanced countries and only certain nations of the Third World is shown at work in private Euromarket financial operations.
Multi-National Corporations and Third World Development
Articles on the influence of multinational enterprise on economic and social development in the developing countries - examines the effects of MNEs on economic growth, industrial restructuring, employment creation, technological change, consumption patterns, etc.; discusses their role in world trade and the New International Economic Order; reviews patterns of government policy (incl. Economic policy) towards MNEs in the developing countries; includes a directory of information sources and an annotated bibliography. Graphs, references, statistical tables.
