Governing under stress : middle powers and the challenge of globalization /
Certain countries are characterised 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 m...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London [England] : Black Point, N.S. :
Zed Books ; Fernwood Pub.,
2004.
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| Series: | Globalization and the semi-periphery.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface; Gordon Laxer; 1; Introduction:States under Siege; 2; Globalization and the Social Question; Part I; Semi-peripheral Countries: Norway, Mexico, Australia, Canada; 3; Globalization in Norwegian: Peculiarities at the European Fringe; 4; Norway, the EEA, and Neo-liberal Globalism; 5; The Rise and Fall of an 'Organized Fantasy': The Negotiation of Status as Periphery and Semi-Periphery by Mexico and Latin America; 6; Mexico: Relocating the State within a New Global Regime; 7; Australia: Asian Outpost or Big-time Financial Dealer?; 8.
