This unique book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. The authors believe that at the present time some regions have produced 'alternative capitalisms' - economic and associated developments which, while assuredly capitalist, differ in various ways from those typical of the capitalist West or 'core economies' of North America and Western Europe.

Robert Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Studies at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Thomas Klak is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Miami Univeristy - Oxford, Ohio, USA
Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

PREFACE
PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 1: âEURoeEMERGING MARKET COUNTRIESâEUR AND ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION
Chapter 2: CONCEPTUALIZING THE WORLD SYSTEM
Chapter 3: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE EMERGING
WORLD: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS
Chapter 4: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Chapter 5: CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN
Chapter 6: EAST ASIA: THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE
DEVELOPMENT MODELS AND THEIR REGIONAL IMPACTS
PART THREE: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE
Chapter 7: TRADE LIBERALIZATION, ECONOMIC
TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATION
Chapter 8: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 9: THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION AND
EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
Chapter 10: GEOGRAPHIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
IN EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
Chapter 11: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE GROWTH OF
SERVICES
PART FOUR: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE
Chapter 12: MODERNITY AND NATIONALITY
Chapter 13: MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY
Chapter 14: CONCLUSION: ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS
AND GLOBALIZATION
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