The Global Political Economy

Pecujlic Miroslav , “The Other Europe,” paper prepared for UNU/TNI conference on Europe and East-West Relations, 12–13 October 1985.

See Maddison Angus , Phases of Capitalist Development (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).

Chase-Dunn Christopher , “International Economic Policy in a Declining Core State,” in: Avery William P Rapkin David P (editors), America in a Changing World Political Economy (New York & London: Longman, 1982), p.78.

Quoted by Kurth James , “The Political Consequences of the Product Cycle: Industrial History and Political Outcomes,” International Organization, Winter 1979, p.10.

Modelski George , “The Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 20, no 2, April 1978, p.230.

See e.g., Gilpin Robert , War and Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Maddison (Note 2), p.94.

Long cycle theories divide the period into four 50-year cycles with an additional cycle between what I have described as the textile era and the railway era, i.e. between c.1830 and c. 1880. Also, my dating, which is rough, is somewhat later than other sources. This is because I have focused on the diffusion of a technological paradigm; its dominance in the world economy. In general, a technological paradigm develops in the lead country at an earlier stage. Hence railway building was concentrated in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. In the United States, the great period of automobile growth was the 1900s and 1920s. See e.g., the dating offered by Mandel Ernest , Late Capitalism (London: New Left Books, 1972).

Dosi Giovanni , “Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories. The Determinants and Directions of Technical Change and the Transformation of the Economy,” in: Freeman Christopher (editor), Long Waves in the World Economy (London: Frances Pinter, 1984), pp.83–84.

Perez-Perez Carlotta , “Micro-electronics, Long Waves and World Structural Change,” World Development, vol 13, no 3, March 1985.

See The Politics of the World-Economy: The States, The Movements and The Civilizations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), chapter 10.

Kurth (Note 4).

Chomsky Noam , “The Evil Empire,” New Socialist, January 1986, p.11.

Spero Joan Edelman , The Politics of International Economic Relations (London: George, Allen & Unwin, Third Edition, 1985), p. 27.

Kurth (Note 4), p.28.

Quoted in Trebilcock Clive , The Defence Sector and Technological Progress, 1890–1945: An Historical Model, paper presented to the Royal Economic Society's Conference on Government and Innovation, Pembroke College, July 14–17, 1975.

Mutual Security Act of 1951, Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services, 82nd Congress First Session, 26 July 1951, vol 65.

Composite Report of the President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program, (the Draper Report) Washington, August 1959, p.167.

Maddison (Note 2), p.103.

See Thompson E.P. (editor), Star Wars (London: Penguin Books, 1985).

Spero (Note 14), p.110.