Haiti and the Limits of Sovereignty

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fatton
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
Cheap Labor ◽  
Outer Periphery ◽  
The World

“Haiti and the Limits of Sovereignty” contends that under the weight of an externally imposed neo-liberal regime, a quasi-permanent crisis of governability, and the devastating earthquake of January 2010, Haiti has tumbled into the “outer periphery.” The outer periphery is the zone of catastrophe of the world system, which is integrated into the margins of the global economy. Starved of direct foreign investments, and compelled to engage in ultra-cheap labor activities for exports, Haiti is at the farthest end of the global production process; it is trapped in the outer periphery. The chapter also contends that while domestic social forces have played a fundamental role in Haiti’s collapse, the nation’s fall is unintelligible without studying how it was precipitated by the world system. The patterns of imperial interventions that Haiti has endured over the years, especially in the aftermath of both the fall of the Duvalier regime and the quake, have limited its sovereignty to such an extent that the country has become a virtual “trusteeship.”

The New Imperialism of Globalized Monopoly-Finance Capital: An Introduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bellamy Foster
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Index Volume ◽  
World System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
New Imperialism

It is now a universal belief on the left that the world has entered a new imperialist phase.&hellip; The challenge for Marxian theories of the imperialist world system in our times is to capture the full depth and breadth of the classical accounts, while also addressing the historical specificity of the current global economy. It will be argued in this introduction (in line with the present issue as a whole) that what is widely referred to as neoliberal globalization in the twenty-first century is in fact a historical product of the shift to global monopoly-finance capital or what Samir Amin calls the imperialism of "generalized-monopoly capitalism."<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-3" title="Vol. 67, No. 3: July 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

scholarly journals Globalization in the World System and Its Influence on the Concepts of Accounting and Statistics

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 3943-3945
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
A Company

This article examines the factors, which contributed to integration of the global economy technologies in the accounting and statistics processes. In era of advanced digital technologies, all companies are connected with each other and communicate promptly. Besides, the methods of implementing major integration measures that influence the overall financial standing of a company are also important.

scholarly journals Comecon as the «Core» of Alternative Globalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
A. A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World

Book review: «The World System of Socialism» and the Global Economy in the mid-1950s – mid-1970s/ ed. by M.A. Lipkin. Moscow: Ves’ mir, 2019.

Rozwój cywilizacji kapitalistycznej w perspektywie teorii systemu-świata

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
pp. 66-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Pawłuszko
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
International Division ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic

Article explores the issue of genesis and development of the „world-system analysis” and focuses on its approach to the proces of globalization. From the point of view of world-system analyses the global economic system has emerged since the sixteenth century. For centuries global economy has been based on the international division of labour. It creates a new kind of „capitalistic civiliation”. This paper aims to discuss the development of theoretical framework of the world-system analysis. Besides, I try to outline contemporary scientific and political-economic challenges for the concept of capitalistic civilization.

scholarly journals Matter, Space, Energy, and Political Economy: The Amazon in the World-System

2003 ◽  
pp. 219-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bunker
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Amazon Basin ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
World System ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Single Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatial Configurations

Many authors have attempted co-incorporate the local into the global. World-systems analysis, though, is rooted in processes of production, and all production remains profoundly local. Understanding the expansion and intensification of the social and material relations of capitalism that have created and sustain the dynamic growth of the world-system from the local to the global requires analysis of material processes of natural and social production in space as differentiated by topography, hydrology, climate, and absolute distance betweenplaces. In this article, I consider some of the spatio-material configurations chat have struc-tured local effects on global formations within a single region, the Amazon Basin. I first detail and criticize the tendency in world system and globalization analysis, and in the modern social sciences generally, to use spatial metaphors without examining how space affects the material processes around which social actors organize economy and policy. I next examine thework of some earlier social scientists who analyzed specific materio-spatial configurations as these structured human social, economic, and political activities and organization, searching for possible theoretical or methodological tools for building from local to global analysis. I then review some recent analyses of spatio-material determinants of social and economic organiza-tion in the Amazon Basin. Finally, I show that the 400-year-long sequence of extractive econ-omies in the Amazon reflected the changing demands of expanded industrial production in the core, and how such processes can best be understood by focusing our analysis on spatio-material configurations of local extraction, transport, and production. The Amazon is but one of the specific environments that have supplied raw materials to changing global markets, but close consideration of how its material and spatial attributes shaped the global economy provides insights into the ways other local systems affect the world-system.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Section

2011 ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Terry-Ann Jones ◽  
Eric Mielants
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Special Section ◽  
World System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
Exchange Rate Shocks

Several theories of international migration have emerged to explain and predict the patterns created by the international flows of people. While used as an explanatory tool for other sociological phenomena, world-systems analysis has also emerged as a dominant paradigm through which international migration may be explored. In April 2008 Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT hosted the thirty-second annual conference of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association. The theme was Flow of People and Money across the World-System: Past, Present and Future. The collection of papers presented at this conference was academically rich and produced a wealth of scholarship, some of which is presented in this issue. Vernengo and Bradbury examine the risks associated with dollarization in Ecuador, arguing that although these risks are minimized by the influx of migrant remittances into the country, the trend remains unstable and unsustainable, as was evident in Argentina. Rocha deconstructs the optimistic visions that present remittances as an opportunity for developing countries, instead arguing that they are part and parcel of a process of economic imperialism. Dick and Jorgenson focus on environmental consequences of foreign investment dependence for less-developed countries and how various types of ecological degradation can contribute to mass migration. Kentor, Sobel and Timberlake discuss the hierarchy of global cities through which so much money flows back and forth, and specifically the spatiality of inter-corporate integration in the global economy such as the spatial distribution of intra-firm corporate headquarter-subsidiary networks operations and centrality in transportation networks. Lastly, Degirmen presents a case study of globalization of capital in Turkey and how interest and exchange rate shocks produced particularly interesting effects on capital and liquidity structures.

Globalization and interconfessional communications

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Set ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Rapid Appearance

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.

The Role of Technological Change in the Long-run Global Economy Forecasting

2013 ◽  
pp. 97-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Apokin
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
National Economies

The author compares several quantitative and qualitative approaches to forecasting to find appropriate methods to incorporate technological change in long-range forecasts of the world economy. A?number of long-run forecasts (with horizons over 10 years) for the world economy and national economies is reviewed to outline advantages and drawbacks for different ways to account for technological change. Various approaches based on their sensitivity to data quality and robustness to model misspecifications are compared and recommendations are offered on the choice of appropriate technique in long-run forecasts of the world economy in the presence of technological change.

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