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Global Rivalries from the Cold War to Iraq

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In this paper, the Spectre of Social and Economic Democracy and the Neoliberal Turn are discussed, as well as the rise of China as the new contender in the post-Soviet era.
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Chapter 1. Fractures and Faultlines in the Global Political Economy Chapter 2. Integrating Atlantic Europe Chapter 3. America's Crusade in Asia and the Euro-Atlantic Rift Chapter 4. The Spectre of Social and Economic Democracy Chapter 5. Transnational Rivalries and the Neoliberal Turn Chapter 6. From Pinochet to the Reagan Doctrine Chapter 7. The Rapallo Syndrome and the Demise of the Soviet Union Chapter 8. America over Europe in the Balkans Crisis Chapter 9. The Rise of China as the New Contender Chapter 10. Energy Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era Chapter 11. From Human Rights to the Global State of Emergency References Index

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Religion and the rise of capitalism

TL;DR: The inverted Weberian theory as discussed by the authors argued with particular rigour by H. M. Tawney and others, the gist of which may be said to be that economic change can affect religious teaching, but also religious teaching can in tum intensify and enhance the spirit of capitalism.
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The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity

TL;DR: Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization as mentioned in this paper, and propose a flexible specialization system.
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The Logic of the Developmental State@@@Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization@@@The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism@@@MITI and the Japanese Miracle@@@Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization

TL;DR: Wade as mentioned in this paper reviewed the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia and chronicles the changing fortunes of these economies over the 1990s, and extended the original argument to explain the boom of the first half of the decade and the crash of the second, stressing the links between corporations, banks, governments, international capital markets and the International Monetary Fund.