1st Edition

The Emergence of the Global Political Economy

Edited By Jeremy Black, William Thompson Copyright 2000
268 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The Emergence of the Global Political Economy challenges the assumption that the international political economy is a recent phenomenon. Instead this volume asserts that the current global political economy began to take shape around 1500 and that some of today's key processes were already perceivable several hundred years ago. The book explains the interdependence between long-term economic... Read more
I Introduction and Overview II The Ascendance of Western Europe III The Leadership Challenge Sequence IV Structural Change and Evolution

Biography

William Thompson (Author) ,  Jeremy Black (Edited by)

'Thompson is refreshingly free from the reductionism that all too often accompanies discussions of this type.' - Jeremy Black, History Today, vol. 50, Sept 2000