"Hans van Zon analyzes the financialization of developed capitalism, and argues that the emergency of finance as a dominant force has contributed to the relative decline of the West. He demonstrates that the neo-liberal model is inherently unstable and undermines capitalist economies, which can...

This book is a critical and multidisciplinary IPE of the unequal structures of South American development and uneven insertions in the global order following the decline of the commodities boom. The work explores the extent to which regional development issues are related to merely a decline of...

Introduction: South-South cooperation: Africa on the centre stage / Renu Modi -- Part I. The concept, history and moving forward -- Part II. Economic dimensions of South-South cooperation -- Part III. Socio-political context of South-South cooperation

In this book 12 regional chapters, encompassing all of the major regions of the world, provide a global dialogue on globalization. The authors provide new perspectives on how we should think about globalization, its impacts and forms of resistance and response

This book brings together authors from eleven countries to analyze and reflect on what globalization means to them. Does it mean the same in Russia as it does in the U.S.? The same in China as in South Africa? This book provides a global dialogue on globalization and brings much-needed new...

This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa. The principal factor that accounts for this failure is the prolific non-productive forms of capitalism that tend to be dominant in the...