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Uneven Development and the Restructuring of the Armaments Industry in Slovakia
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An analysis of contemporary uneven development in the Republic of Slovakia is based, theoretically, upon a regulationist interpretation of the restructuring of state socialism and empirically, upon an examination of regional dependence on armament industry production complexes.Abstract:
An analysis of contemporary uneven development in the Republic of Slovakia is based, theoretically, upon a regulationist interpretation of the restructuring of state socialism and, empirically, upon an examination of regional dependence on armament industry production complexes. Rather than a simple transition to capitalism, contemporary regional economies in Slovakia are seeing the uneven marketization of economic relations alongside the emergence of mercantilist capital. Enterprises have been faced with economic collapse as the Cold War ended and, within this context, new forms of mercantilist accumulation are emerging which may transform themselves into a capitalist class. However, the nature of such regional change is highly contested.read more
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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah
TL;DR: Fukuyama's seminal work "The End of History and the Last Man" as discussed by the authors was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like, outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, and speculated what was going to come next.
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Power Relations, Industrial Clusters, and Regional Transformations: Pan-European Integration and Outward Processing in the Slovak Clothing Industry.
TL;DR: This article explored the uneven nature of these power relations, as well as their fluidity at three levels, focusing on the form that power relations take, which knit together pan-European supply linkages and regional clusters of clothing firms.
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Internationalization and Embeddedness in East± Central European Transition: The Contrasting Geographies of Inward Investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics
Petr Pavlínek,Adrian Smith +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a critical examination of the capacity of inward investment projects in the Czech and Slovak Republics to generate forms of embedded regional restructuring is carried out, pointing to the profound, yet uneven and contradictory regional transformations resulting from inward investment in three industrial sectors in Czech and Slovakia: automobile manufacturing, light engineering, and tobacco and food processing.
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Economic Transition at the Local Level: Diverse Forms of Town Development in China
Laurence J. C. Ma,Gonghao Cui +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine China's local transition at the town level as a consequence of the interplay between local factors (e.g., local government activism and actions of peasantsturned workers) and external forces such as regulatory change at the national level and the influx of global, national and local capital.
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Sociospatial Transformations in the ‘Postsocialist’ Periphery: The Case of Maputo, Mozambique
James D. Sidaway,M Power +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the contradictory impact of political and economic changes accompanying colonialism, independence, attempted socialist transformation, and the end of socialism in Mozambique as they are mediated through the built environment of the Mozambican capital city of Maputo.
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The End of History and the Last Man
TL;DR: Fukuyama as mentioned in this paper identifies two powerful forces guiding our actions: the logic of desire (the rational economic process); and the desire for recognition, which he describes as the very motor of history.
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The urbanization of capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the creation of capitalist urban space during the socalled ''Keynesian'' or ''Fordist'' epoch and the transition from this epoch to the era of so-called ''post-Fordism'' which we are currently experiencing.
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Regulation Theory, the Local State, and the Transition of Urban Politics:
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the local state is both an object and an agent of regulation, which itself needs to be regulated so that its strategies and structures can be used to help forge a new social, political, and economic settlement.
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The Future of the Market: An Essay on the Regulation of Money and Nature After the Collapse of 'Actually Existing Socialism'
TL;DR: In this paper, Altvater examines the claims currently made for the market, both in the history of capitalism and in the globalized market economy today, in the sense of imposing itself on the will of political actors.