Alternative Capitalisms

Geographies of emerging regions

By: Robert Gwynne, Denis Shaw, Thomas Klak

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Paperback | 30 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

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This 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'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book breaks new ground in three areas. First of all it develops a critique of the use of the term 'emerging regions' for geographers and social scientists and relates this to world-systems theory. Secondly, it explores the development trajectories and challenges of countries in this so-called emerging world, countries that will be crucial to the evolution of the world economy in the twenty-first century. Thirdly, it compares and contrasts the pathways of both economic and political change in the three world regions under focus. This is a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences.

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'The book fills an important niche, providing students with a rich and detailed account of the challenges faced by emerging
economies in terms of economic development and democratisation in a global economy that is increasingly dominated by the
world's core countries. The authors show how economics, politics, culture and historical legacies are interacting to establish a variety
of pathways to development - demonstrating that globalization is not imposing uniformity on the world but, rather, making for an
increasingly complex and differentiated world. Geography matters.'
Paul Knox, author of Geography of the World Econom

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