This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society.
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Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global system
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Reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state
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Substantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience
List of Tables.
List of Figures.
List of Charts.
Preface to the 2010 Edition of End of Millennium.
Acknowledgments 1997.
A Time of Change.
1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism.
The Technology Question.
The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism.
The Last Perestroika.
Nationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State.
The Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society.
2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion.
Toward a Polarized World? A Global Overview.
The De-humanization of Africa.
Marginalization and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global economy.
Africa’s technological apartheid atlsŪ
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