Allies As Rivals - The U.s., Europe and Japan in a Changing World-System

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Hegemony, Rivalry, and the Trajectory of the World-System, Faruk Tabak; Chapter 2 The Bush Regime and the Collapse of the Postwar Geopolitical Structures, Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 3 Rough Road to Empire, Giovanni Arrighi; Chapter 4 The U.S. Trajectory: Quantitative and Historical Reflections, Thomas Reifer, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Andrew Jorgenson; Chapter 5 The Trans-Atlantic Conflict Over Primacy, Peter Gowan; Chapter 6 Japan: Signs of Empire, Empire of Signs?, Ravi Arvind Palat; Chapter 7 Rising Intra-Core Rivalry and the U.S. Turn Toward East Asia, John Gulick; Chapter 8 Europe as Alternative Empire: A View from the Periphery, Ça?lar Keyder; Chapter 9 Hegemonic Rivalry and the Periphery: The Case of the Trans-Atlantic “Banana Wars”, Keith Nurse; Chapter 10 The Great Powers and the Global Environment in the Twentieth Century, John R. McNeill;

About the author

Faruk Tabak

Summary

Traces the dynamics of international rivalry from the late 1970s to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Faruk Tabak, Tabak Faruk
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2005
• EAN: 9781594511219
• ISBN: 978-1-59451-121-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; USA, Japan, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)