1st Edition

Alternative Capitalisms

By Robert Gwynne, Denis Shaw, Thomas Klak Copyright 2003

    The Geography of Emerging Regions provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the histories and contemporary development problems of the non-core countries of the world economy. Dramatic shifts in economic policy and the nature of political institutions have occurred in these countries over the past decade, much more substantial than those experienced within advanced economies. Here, the authors assess the impact of these shifts at different scales of analysis, from the supranational to the local.



    Drawing on the experience of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and East Asia in particular, the authors seek to illuminate the many contradictions in contemporary discourse on the so-called 'emerging regions', and look forward to the future and the type of world that might develop away from the core advanced economies.

    PREFACE
    PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
    Chapter 1: “EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES” AND ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION
    Chapter 2: CONCEPTUALIZING THE WORLD SYSTEM
    Chapter 3: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE EMERGING
    WORLD: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
    PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS
    Chapter 4: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE
         FORMER SOVIET UNION
    Chapter 5: CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
    CARIBBEAN
    Chapter 6: EAST ASIA: THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE
    DEVELOPMENT MODELS AND THEIR REGIONAL IMPACTS
    PART THREE: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE
    Chapter 7: TRADE LIBERALIZATION, ECONOMIC
    TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATION
    Chapter 8: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
    Chapter 9: THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION AND
    EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
    Chapter 10: GEOGRAPHIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
    IN EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
    Chapter 11: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE GROWTH OF
    SERVICES
    PART FOUR: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE
    Chapter 12: MODERNITY AND NATIONALITY
    Chapter 13: MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY
    Chapter 14: CONCLUSION: ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS
    AND GLOBALIZATION
    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Biography

    Robert Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Studies at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

    Thomas Klak is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Miami Univeristy - Oxford, Ohio, USA

    Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK