Global Change, Regional Response The Ne International Context of Development [Paperback]

This book offers a new perspective in studying development in the post cold war world.Offering a new perspective on studying contemporary development, this study explores how the ending of the cold war, shifting relations among capitalist powers, changing patterns of finance, and new ideological currents have altered development in four major third-world regions.Offering a new perspective on studying contemporary development, this study explores how the ending of the cold war, shifting relations among capitalist powers, changing patterns of finance, and new ideological currents have altered development in four major third-world regions.This book offers a new perspective in studying contemporary development. Part I explores how the ending of the cold war, shifting relations among capitalist powers, changing patterns of finance, and new ideological currents have altered development in four major third-world regions. Part II suggests how development options were molded by the dominant international power in each region: the United States in Latin America, Japan in East and Southeast Asia, and Europe with the international financial institutions in Africa. Part III provides a conceptual framework for analyzing regional performance.List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: global change, regional response Barbara Stallings; Part I. Global Changes: 2. The Third World and the end of the Cold War Fred Halliday; 3. Capitalisms in conflict? The United States, Europe, and Japan in the post-Cold War world Barbara Stallings and Wolfgang Streeck; 4. Global production systems and Third World development Gary Gereffi; 5. New global financial trends: implications for development Stephany Griffith-Jones and Barbara Stallings; 6. The 'triumph' of liberal economic ideas in the developing world Thomas J. Biersteker; Part II. Regional Responses: 7. The East Asian NICs: a state-led path to the developed world Yun-han Chu; 8. Southeast Asia: success through internló