1st Edition
From Traditional to Group Hegemony The G7, the Liberal Economic Order and the Core-Periphery Gap
By Alison Bailin
Copyright 2005
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Developing a new theory of hegemony, called group hegemony, the author explains how a few wealthy countries maintain the liberal economic order and how this helps to sustain the economic disparity between the core and the periphery in the post-World War II era. The theory proposes that the G7 acts as a global government of last resort - a crisis manager - when other institutions prove inadequate... Read more
Contents: Introduction: group hegemony; The group hegemon; Too many CEOs in the boardroom?; Maintaining the status quo; Integration and the gap; The downfall of group hegemony; Appendix A; References; Index.
Biography
Dr Alison Bailin is at the University of Toronto, Canada.
