Political Science : Globalization

Recently, real and artificial barriers to international transactions have fallen sharply, causing a rise in the overall volume of international trade. East Asia has been particularly affected by the economic stresses and gains derived from deregulation. Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region explores the broadly similar experiences of certain economies in the region—China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea—in dealing with the potentially volatile process of deregulation, and examines the East Asian response to a rapidly transforming economic environment. more...

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This collection confirms the robust relationship between level of economic development and democracy, but suggests that globalization is a key variable in determining the tenuous nature of this relationship. more...

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David Corkhill analyses the Europeanization of the Portuguese economy in the context of closer European integration, globalization and the struggle to achieve international competitiveness. more...

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Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace. While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They address the operation of digital formations and their implications for the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn, are shaping such forces. Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie, Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber. more...

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Acronyms. 1. Introduction: Globalization from the Periphery. Part I: The Arrival of Multinational Newcomers and Latecomers. 2. The New Zoology of the International Economy. 3. The Acer Group: A Dragon Multinational. Part II: Characteristics of the Global Latecomers. 4. Incremental Expansion with Rapid Global Coverage. 5. Strategic Innovation: Leapfrogging through Linkage, Leverage, and Learning. 6. Organizational Innovation: Building Global Reach through Cellular Clusters. Part III: Comprehending the Impact of Global Latecomers. 7. An Alternative OLI Framework for Latecomers. 8. A Process-Oriented Account of Accelerated Internationalization. 9. Globalization and the Dragon Multinational. Bibliography. Index more...

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