Re-Envisioning Global Development 2013

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1、Re-EnvisioningGlobalDevelopmentRe-EnvisioningGlobalDevelopmentelaboratesanalternativeontologyandwayofthinkingaboutglobaldevelopmentduringrecentcenturies–onelinked,nottonationsandregions,buttoasetofessentiallytrans-nationalrelationsandconnections.Thisangleofvisionprovides

2、thebasisforanoriginalperspectiveoncapitalistdevelopmentfromitsoriginstothepresentday.Mostapproachestounderstandingcontemporarydevelopmentassumethatindustrialcapitalismwasachievedthroughaprocessofnationallyorganisedeconomicgrowth,andthatinrecentyearsitsorganisationhasbeco

3、meincreasinglytrans-localorglobal.However,Halperinshowsthatnationallyorganisedeconomicgrowthhasrarelybeenthecase–ithasonlyrecentlycometocharacteriseafewcountriesandforonlyafewdecades.Halperinarguesthatcapitalistdevelopmenthas,everywhereandfromthestart,involved–notwholena

4、tionsorsocieties–butonlysectorsorgeographicalareaswithinstates.Bybringingthisaspectofhistorically‘normal’capitalistdevelopmentintoclearerfocus,thebookclarifiesthespe-cificconditionsandcircumstancesthatenabledEuropeaneconomiestopur-sueamorebroad-baseddevelopmentfollowingW

5、orldWarII,andwhatpre-ventedasimilaroutcomeinthecontemporary‘thirdworld’.Italsoclarifiesthenature,spatialextentandcircumstancesofcurrentglobalisingtrends.Wide-rangingandprovocative,thisinnovativetextisrequiredreadingforadvancedlevelstudentsandscholarsindevelopmentstudies,

6、develop-menteconomicsandpoliticalscience.SandraHalperinisProfessorofInternationalRelationsandCo-DirectoroftheCentreforGlobalandTransnationalPoliticsatRoyalHolloway,Uni-versityofLondon.Herresearchinterestsincludeglobaldevelopmentandthehistoricalsociologyofglobalrelations.

7、CriticalIssuesinGlobalPoliticsThisseriesengageswiththemostsignificantissuesincontempo-raryglobalpolitics.Eachtextiswrittenbyaleadingscholarandprovidesashort,accessibleandstimulatingoverviewoftheissueforadvancedundergraduatesandgraduatestudentsofinternationalrelationsandg

8、lobalpolitics.Aswellasprovidingasurveyofthefield,thebooksalsocontainoriginalandgroundbreakingthinkingwh