Synopses & Reviews
Bringing together leading scholars, the book investigates the ways in which development has become a significant consideration in International Political Economy. As such, it engages with a series of global encounters, between development studies, IPE and globalization: the state and global development; civil society networks and changing geographies of power and governance; global designs of regulatory change and more specific interests and agencies.
Synopsis
How has globalization impacted on development? For Harrison, the answer lies in the international political economy, and the ways in which states have managed economic globalization - from positions of strength or weakness. Key themes emerge, such as new geographies of development and the constant need for state economic action.
About the Author
Graham Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Table of Contents
Global Encounters: Three Themes for the International Political Economy of Development;
G.Harrison * The Development of Political Underdevelopment;
M.Moore * Botswana's Developmental State and the Politics of Legitimacy;
I.Taylor * Uganda as an African 'Developmental State'?;
T.M.Shaw * The Irish State and the Celtic Tiger: A 'Flexible Developmental State' or a Competition State?;
P.Kirby * What's Left of 'State Capacity'? The Developmental State After Globalisation and the East Asian Crisis;
J.Perraton * The Regional Impact of Globalization: The 'Spatial Fix' in Southern Textiles, 1974-1997;
P.J.Wood * Contentious Development Issues and Transnational Networks;
B.Morvaridi * Innovations in Trade Union Strategies in Brazil;
M.Riethof * Well Connected? Building Capacity for Pro-Competitive Telecommunications Regulation in Three Caribbean States;
M.Lodge & L.Stirton * Offshore or 'Shorn Off'? The OECD's Harmful Tax Competition Initiative and Development in the Small Island Economies;
R.Woodward * Export Processing Zones and Policy Competition for Foreign Direct Investment: The Caribbean 'Offshore' Development Model;
T.Heron * Backwaters, Currents and the 'Competitive State' in the Caribbean: The Imperative of Public Sector Reform;
P.Sutton