Governing under stress: middle powers and the challenge of globalization
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [England] Zed Books 2004
Schriftenreihe:Globalization and the semi-periphery
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 means to resist. This differentiates them from both those countries at the centre which lack any such consciousness, and poor and powerless countries on the periphery. The contributors focus on four countries in North America, Central America, Europe and the Antipodes - namely Canada, Mexico, Norway
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