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Table of Contents

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Late Twentieth Century Challenges for World-System Analysis by József Böröcz and David A. Smith Structural Transformations of the Late Twentieth Century The Theory of Global Capitalism: State Theory and Variants of Capitalism on a World Scale by Robert J.S. Ross The New Colonialism: Global Regulation and the Restructuring of the Interstate System by Phillip McMichael Lessons from the Gulf Wars: Hegemonic Decline, Semi-Peripheral Turbulence, and the Role of the Rentier State by Cynthia Siemsen Maki and Walter L. Goldfrank Global Restructing, TNCs and the 'European Periphery': What Has Changed? by Denis O'Hearn Product Cycles and International Divisions of Labor: Contrasts between the United States and Japan by Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita Restructuring Space, Time, and Competitive Advantage in the World-Economy: Japan and Raw Materials Transport after World War II by Steven G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell Capital, Labor, and State in Thai Industrial Restructuring: The Impact of Global Economic Transformations Industry by Frederic Deyo New Social Movements and Possibilities for Resistance Globalization, India, and the Struggle for Justice by Timothy J. Scrase Global Manufacturing, Liberalization and Indian Leather Workers by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase Globalization, Hegemony and Political Conflict: The Case of Zurich, Switzerland by Stefan Kipfer Environmental Transformations: Accumulation, Ecological Crisis, and Social Movements Left Internationalism and the Politics of Resistance in the New World Order by Andre Drainville Index

About the Author

DAVID A. SMITH is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in urbanization, comparative-historical sociology, world-system analysis, East Asian political economy, and political sociology. JOZSEF BOROCZ is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Hungarian Studies at Rutgers University. His special interests are international development, state socialism and its legacy, economic sociology, historical-comparative macrosociology, class and stratification, and labor and leisure migration.