This book introduces Uneven and Combined Development as an approach in international studies and showcases some of the latest and most innovative research in this field.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Results and prospects: an introduction to the CRIA special issue on UCD Part I: New Directions in UCD 1. The greening of uneven and combined development: IR, capitalism and the global ecological crisis 2. Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development 3. National adequation and critical originality in the work of Antonio Candido 4. Worlds beyond capitalism: images of uneven and combined development in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy 5. Uneven and combined development: convergence realism in communist regalia? 6. Of economic whips and political necessities: a contribution to the international political economy of uneven and combined development 7. Imposing evenness, preventing combination: charting the international dynamics of socio-technical imaginaries of innovation in American foreign policy Part II: Forum on UCD and International Political Economy 8. UCD and IPE: an introduction to the forum 9. Regaining relevance: IPE and a changing global political economy 10. Uneven and combined development, international political economy, and world-systems analysis 11. The internationalization of the state versus 'the causality of the international' Part III: UCD and International Relations Theory 12. Multiplicity, group identity and the spectre of the social 13. Rewiring unevenness: the historical sociology of late modernization beyond the West/East duality 14. The public-private distinction in the shadow of China: uneven and combined development's critique of liberal IR theory? 15. Uneven and combined development: a defense of the general abstraction
