Rethinking Global Political Economy: Emerging Issues, Unfolding Odysseys [Hardcover]

Rethinking Global Political Economy contains incisive analysis of history, linguistics, class, culture, empirical data and normative concerns.

This important volume presents innovative approaches to fundamental issues in global political economy. Together they provide multiple arguments and avenues for rethinking global political economy in a time of turmoil and system transformation. It will appeal to those interested in seeing new perspectives and healthy heterodoxy in the study of political economy.

This new volume presents innovative approaches to the fundamental issues of the global political economy, in particular post Cold War development, analyses of capital and negative aspects of globalization.Mary Ann T?treault is Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity University, USA. Robert A. Denemark is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Delaware, USA. Kenneth P. Thomas is Associate Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Center for International Studies at University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. Kurt Burch is Associate Professor in Political Science at St Olaf College, USA.Introduction 1. New Odysseys in the Global Political Economy: Fundamentalist Contention and Economic Conflict Mary Ann T?treault 2. Analytical Advances to Address New Dynamics V.Spike Peterson 3. Metageographical Moments: A Geohistorical interpretation of Embedded Statism and Globalization Peter J. Taylor 4. Creating Global Hegemony: Culture and the Market Barbara Jenkins 5. Globalization as Global History: Introducing a Dialectical Analysis Barry K. Gills 6. Mergers, Stagflation, and the Logic of Globalization Jonathan Nitzan 7. Global Dreams and Local Anger: From Structural to Acute Violence in a Globalizing World Peter Uvin 8. Globalization,lS@