"As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region. This book includes a range of substantive work...

section 1. Globalisation : political, economic and cultural dimensions -- section 2. Sustainable development, social welfare and human resources -- section 3. Civil society, informal networks and local governance -- Section 4. Globalisation : security and strategic dimensions

Historical origins of world-systems analysis -- The modern world-system as a capitalist world-economy -- The rise of the states-system -- The creation of a geoculture -- The modern world-system in crisis