A new world order? : global transformations in the late twentieth century / edited by David A. Smith and József Böröcz.

"Final product of the eighteenth annual conference on the Political Economy of the World-System ... held ... in April 1994 ... hosted by the University of California at Irvine--P. [xi]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theory of global capitalism : state theory and variants of capitalism on a world scale / Robert J.S. Ross -- New colonialism : global regulation and the restructuring of the interstate system / Philip McMichael -- Lessons from the gulf wars : hegemonic decline, semiperipheral turbulence, and the role of the rentier state / Cynthia Siemsen Maki and Walter L Goldfrank -- Global restructuring, transnational corporations and the 'European periphery' : what has changed? / Denis O'Hearn -- Product cycles and international divisions of labor : contrasts between the United States and Japan / Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita -- Restructuring space, time, and competitive advantage in the capitalist world-economy : Japan and raw materials transport after World War II / Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell -- Capital, labor, and state in Thai industrial restructuring: impact of global economic transformations / Frederic C. Deyo -- Globalization, India, and the struggle for justice / Timothy J Scrase -- Global manufacturing, liberalization, and Indian leather workers / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Globalization, hegemony, and political conflict : case of local politics in Zurich, Switzerland / Stefan Kipfer -- Environmental transformations : accumulation, ecological crisis, and social movements / Sing C. Chew -- Left internationalism and the politics of resistance in the new world order / André C. Drainville..