Global Encounters: International Political Economy, Development, and Globalization

by Graham Harrison

Global Three Themes for the International Political Economy of Development - Graham Harrison PART I The State and Global Political Economy (Un)Developmental States The Development of Political Underdevelopment - Mick Moore Botswana's Developmental State and the Politics of Legitimacy - Ian Taylor Uganda as an African 'Developmental State'? - Timothy M. Shaw The Irish State and the Celtic A 'Flexible Developmental State' or a Competition State? - Peadar Kirby What's Left of 'State Capacity'? The Developmental State After Globalization and the East Asian Crisis - Jonathan Perraton PART II Networks of Development, New Patterns of Power The Regional Impact of The 'Spatial Fix' in Southern Textiles, 1974-1997 - Philip J. Wood Contentious Development Issues and Transnational Networks - Behrooz Morvaridi Innovations in Trade Union Strategies in Brazil - Marieke Riethof PART III Regulating Globalization, Development and Liberalisation Well Connected? Building Capacity for Pro-Competitive Telecommunications Regulation in Three Caribbean States - Martin Lodge and Lindsay Stirton Offshore or 'Shorn Off'? The OECD's Harmful Tax Competition Initiative and Development in Small Island Economies - Richard Woodward Export and Processing Zones and Policy Competition for Foreign Direct The Caribbean 'Offshore' Development Model - Tony Heron Backwaters, Currents and the 'Competitive State' in the The Imperative of Public Sector Reform - Paul Sutton

291 pages, Unknown Binding

First published November 10, 2004