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Globalization has created a new architecture of core-periphery relations in the world economy, in which social divisions replace geographic divisions.

Globalization is at the heart of debates about the present phase of development of the world economy. In Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Ankie Hoogvelt joins these debates to examine the ways in which globalization is affecting the countries of the developing world.

Taking a new look at historical trends and theories in development studies, Hoogvelt places special emphasis on emerging global forms of production, exchange, and governance. She describes the diverse impacts of globalization in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and Latin America, identifying different postcolonial responses in each of these regions.

Hoogvelt concludes that today the social logic of globalization drives the economics of globalization--in contrast to the past, in which economic forces stimulated the integration of human societies across international borders. Globalization, she concludes, has created a new architecture of core-periphery relations in the world economy, in which social divisions replace geographic divisions and in which the politics of exclusion replace the politics of incorporation characteristic of previous phases of capitalist expansion.

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• List of Figures and Tables(p. ix)
• Preface(p. x)
• Part I Historical Structures
• Introduction(p. 3)
• International political economy(p. 6)
• The critical theory of Robert Cox: historical structure(p. 10)
• Historical structure and stage theory(p. 12)
• 1 The History of Capitalist Expansion(p. 14)
• The political nature of the capitalist world economy(p. 15)
• The dialectical development of capitalism as a world system(p. 16)
• A periodisation of capitalist development and expansion(p. 16)
• The mercantile phase of European expansion(p. 17)
• The colonial phase of European expansion(p. 18)
• Marxist theories of capitalist imperialism(p. 21)
• Critiques of Marxist theories of imperialism(p. 25)
• 2 Neo-colonialism, Modernisation and Dependency(p. 29)
• Global economic pressures(p. 29)
• Domestic tensions(p. 32)
• Geo-political relations(p. 33)
• Modernisation theory(p. 35)
• Dependency theory(p. 37)
• 3 Crisis and Restructuring: The New International Division of Labour(p. 44)
• Material capabilities: global Fordism(p. 45)
• Neo-colonial economic relations(p. 47)
• Economic nationalism in the Third World(p. 48)
• Changing geo-political relations(p. 51)
• Critical theory: diversity and micro-studies(p. 53)
• Gender and development(p. 54)
• 'Dependency associated' development theory(p. 57)
• Postimperialism and world system theories(p. 58)
• Part II Globalisation
• Introduction(p. 65)
• 4 From Expansion to Implosion(p. 69)
• World trade: long-term trends(p. 69)
• Foreign direct investment (FDI) and the growth of multinational enterprises(p. 75)
• World capital flows: long-term indirect investments(p. 77)
• Global financial deepending and the structural position of the Third World(p. 80)
• Core periphery: from structural exploitation to structural irrelevance(p. 84)
• 5 From Fordist to Flexible Production(p. 90)
• Fordism(p. 92)
• From Fordist to flexible production(p. 93)
• The Japanese mode of regulation(p. 101)
• Internationalisation or globalisation? The Japanese model in the world economy(p. 102)
• The Regulation School(p. 105)
• Flexible production and global markets(p. 109)
• Flexible production and global enterprise organisation(p. 110)
• Flexible production and global capital labour relations(p. 111)
• 6 Globalisation(p. 114)
• The sociology of globalisation(p. 116)
• Roland Robertson: world compression and intensification of global consciousness(p. 116)
• David Harvey: Time/space compression(p. 118)
• Anthony Giddens: Time/space distantiation(p. 119)
• The economics of globalisation(p. 121)
• A global market discipline(p. 122)
• Flexible accunulation through global webs(p. 125)
• Global financial 'deepening'(p. 128)
• 7 Global Regulation(p. 132)
• Capital-state relations: global governance and the internationalisation of the state(p. 134)
• Capital-labour relations: the new global world of work(p. 139)
• Core periphery relations(p. 144)
• The politics of exclusion(p. 148)
• Part III The Postcolonial World
• Introduction(p. 153)
• The postcolonial: condition and discourse(p. 154)
• Postcolonial formations(p. 159)
• 8 Africa: Exclusion and the Containment of Anarchy(p. 162)
• Debt and the internationalisation of capital(p. 163)
• Financial integration and deregulation(p. 164)
• Debt crisis and solutions: the 1980s(p. 165)
• The role of the IMF and the World Bank(p. 166)
• Dismantling the developmental state(p. 168)
• Structural adjustment in Africa: the social and economic record(p. 170)
• Structural adjustment: intensifying global relations(p. 171)
• Democracy and economic reform(p. 172)
• Economic reform and anarchy(p. 175)
• The reverse agenda of aid and global management(p. 177)
• NGOs and the politics of exclusion(p. 178)
• Humanitarian relief and complex political emergencies(p. 180)
• 9 Islamic Revolt(p. 182)
• Spiritual renewal(p. 185)
• The West confronts Islam(p. 188)
• Education and Orientalisation(p. 191)
• The failure of dependent development(p. 193)
• The rise of Islamist new intellectuals and the politics of anti-developmentalism(p. 196)
• 10 The Developmental States of East Asia(p. 201)
• The role of the state in economic development(p. 203)
• Theories of the developmental state(p. 205)
• Comparative political economy(p. 208)
• International political economy(p. 210)
• Limits of the East Asia developmental model(p. 213)
• Regionalisation: the next lap?(p. 216)
• 11 Democracy, Civil Society and Postdevelopment in Latin America(p. 220)
• The Latin American intellectual left(p. 221)
• Postwar developmentalism and dependency theory(p. 223)
• Military regimes, internationalisation and US imperialism(p. 225)
• The dance of the millions(p. 227)
• The new democracy: state, civil society and market reforms(p. 229)
• Civilian rule and political democracy(p. 230)
• The new social movements and civil society(p. 233)
• Imagining postdevelopment(p. 235)
• Conclusion(p. 239)
• Reconstructing universalism, regional mercantilism or postdevelopment?(p. 242)
• Notes and References(p. 246)
• Index(p. 281)

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CHOICE Review

In this postmodern analysis of the issues of globalization and development, Hoogvelt (sociology, Sheffield Univ., UK) claims that the neoliberal strategies of economic restructuring of the past two decades or so have drastically changed capital-state relations, capital-labor relations, and core-periphery relations. Specifically, the new, "transformed" global capitalism has led to (a) "the internationalization of the state in which the state becomes a vehicle for transmitting the global market discipline to the domestic economy," and (b) the "replacement of information for capital and labor as sources of value." Furthermore, globalization no longer means "expanding and incorporating, but deepening and excluding," implying that the bases for core-periphery distinctions are no longer geographic but social divisions. (Despite this last claim, the author, in the tradition of postmodernism, carefully avoids the use of words such as class or class struggle.) These views are, at best, half truths: the state has always played a crucial role in the expansion of markets, capitalism has always revolutionized technology and the process of production, and it has always developed in a combined and uneven way. To claim that these developments are only "post-1970s" phenomena betrays a misunderstanding of how capitalism develops. But perhaps the weakest part of the book is its proposed alternative to capitalism for the "excluded" peoples and regions: eschew capitalism and preserve or return to some sort of self-sufficient, "autonomous, culturally-grounded," precapitalist communities or social formations. E. Hosseinzadeh; Drake University

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Ankie Hoogvelt is senior lecturer in sociology at Sheffield University, United Kingdom.