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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the widespread claim that contemporary globalization has ended the centrality of the state in world affairs and is effectively irreversible. It offers discriminating definitions of globalization, internationalization and international interdependence and demonstrates difficulties generated by these concepts.
Table of ContentsPart 1 Globalization - concepts, precedents, origins and implications: introduction - the problem of globalization; then and now - continuity and discontinuity in the international political economy; the roots of globalization; the ambiguous impact of globalization. Part 2 Sate action in question: the traditional purposes of state action; traditional forms of state action. Part 3 The future of state action: governance and future of state action - needs; modes of governance in a globalizing world; "state action" in an unmanageable world; order, disorder and globalization - the south east Asian crisis of 1997-1998.
