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Book SynopsisEND OF MILLENNIUM
This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society.
Every now and then one reads a book of social science that is uplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious and lustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work from the brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no other sociological work today that brings together in one panoramic expanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story not simply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It is a tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of the emergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative not merely about computer technology or the media, but of the very terms in which those agents work.
Anthony M. Orum,
Table of Contents
List of Tables xi
List of Figures xii
List of Charts xiii
Preface to the 2010 Edition of End of Millennium xiv
Acknowledgments 1997 xxvii
A Time of Change 1
1 The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union 5
The Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism 10
The Technology Question 26
The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism 37
The Last Perestroika 46
Nationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State 56
The Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society 62
2 The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion 69
Toward a Polarized World? A Global Overview 74
The De-humanization of Africa 85
Marginalization and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global economy 85
Africa’s technological apartheid at the dawn of the Information Age 93
The predatory state 97
Zaïre: the personal appropriation of the state 100
Nigeria: oil, ethnicity, and military predation 103
Ethnic identity, economic globalization, and state formation in Africa 106
Africa’s plight 116
Africa’s hope? The South African connection 123
Out of Africa or back to Africa? The politics and economics of self-reliance 128
The New American Dilemma: Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age 130
Dual America 131
The inner-city ghetto as a system of social exclusion 142
When the underclass goes to hell 150
Globalization, Over-exploitation, and Social Exclusion: the View from the Children 154
The sexual exploitation of children 159
The killing of children: war massacres and child soldiers 162
Why children are wasted 164
Conclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism 166
3 The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy 171
Organizational Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of Criminals 173
The Pillage of Russia 185
The structural perspective 189
Identifying the actors 190
Mechanisms of Accumulation 193
Narcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin America 198
What are the economic consequences of the drugs industry for Latin America? 202
Why Colombia? 204
The Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and Culture 209
4 Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State 215
The Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific 215
Heisei’s Japan: Developmental State versus Information Society 223
A social model of the Japanese developmental process 225
Declining sun: the crisis of the Japanese model of development 236
The end of ‘‘Nagatacho politics’’ 248
Hatten Hokka and Johoka Shakai: a contradictory relationship 251
Japan and the Pacific 258
Beheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil Societies 259
Understanding Asian development 261
Singapore: state nation-building via multinational corporations 262
South Korea: the state production of oligopolistic capitalism 266
Taiwan: flexible capitalism under the guidance of an inflexible state 270
Hong Kong model versus Hong Kong reality: small business in a world economy, and the colonial version of the welfare state 274
The breeding of the tigers: commonalities and dissimilarities in their process of economic development 279
The developmental state in East Asian industrialization: on the concept of the developmental state 286
The rise of the developmental state: from the politics of survival to the process of nation-building 288
The state and civil society in the restructuring of East Asia: how the developmental state succeeded in the development process 293
Divergent paths: Asian ‘‘tigers’’ in the economic crisis 297
Democracy, identity, and development in East Asia in the 1990s 303
Chinese Developmental Nationalism with Socialist Characteristics 311
The new Chinese revolution 312
Guanxi capitalism? China in the global economy 317
China’s regional developmental states and the bureaucratic (capitalist) entrepreneurs 321
Weathering the storm? China in the Asian economic crisis 325
Democracy, development, and nationalism in the new China 328
Conclusion: Globalization and the State 337
5 The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State 342
European Unification as a Sequence of Defensive Reactions: a Half-century Perspective 344
Globalization and European Integration 352
Cultural Identity and European Unification 361
The Institutionalization of Europe: the Network State 365
European Identity or European Project? 368
Conclusion: Making Sense of our World 371
Genesis of a New World 372
A New Society 376
The New Avenues of Social Change 387
Beyond this Millennium 389
What is to be Done? 394
Finale 395
Summary of Contents of Volumes I and II 397
References 399
Index 433
