Transformations in the Global Political Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Technology, Ecology and Transformations in the Global Political Economy

   • Dennis C. Pirages

   Pages 1-21

3. The International Oil Market: The Future of Relations between Producers and Consumers

   • Fereidun Fesharaki

   Pages 22-38

4. Adjusting to Global Transformation: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Global Food System

   • Cheryl Christensen, Shahla Shapouri

   Pages 39-63

5. International Competition and Commodity Market Management: The Politics of the International Sugar Agreements

   • Jock A. Finlayson, Mark W. Zacher

   Pages 64-93

6. Interdependence and Increased Competition among the Industrialised Countries: Implications for the Developing World

   • Jeffrey A. Hart

   Pages 94-126

7. The Welfare State and Export Optimism

   • Douglas Nelson R

   Pages 127-152

8. The Future of the Newly Industrialising Countries: An ‘Uncertain Promise’?

   • Chung-In Moon

   Pages 153-194

9. The Future of the Fourth World: Choices and Constraints on the Very Poor in the 1980s

   • Timothy Shaw M

   Pages 195-229

10. The Emperors’ Theories and Transformations: Looking at the Field Through Feminist Lenses

    • Christine Sylvester

    Pages 230-253

11. Back Matter

    Pages 255-259

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This book brings together a collection of essays that focus on the various dimensions of this transformation and prospects for future changes. The book begins with an analytical essay that offers an overview of causes of change in the global political economy.

• competition
• feminism
• political economy
• politics

• University of Maryland, USA

  Dennis C. Pirages

• Northern Arizona University, USA

  Christine Sylvester

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