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Cornell Studies in Political Economy, Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
written by G. John Ikenberry, 1954-; edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-, in Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988, originally published 1988), 231 page(s)
In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other...
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written by G. John Ikenberry, 1954-; edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-, in Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988, originally published 1988), 231 page(s)
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In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and...
In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.
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Global Issues
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Book
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Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-
Author / Creator
G. John Ikenberry, 1954-
Date Published / Released
1988
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Topic / Theme
Politics of Oil and Gas, International relations, Energy industry, Prices, Government policy, Petroleum, Politics & Policy, Trade and Energy, Global Energy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Cornell Studies in Political Economy, Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy
written by Henry Wai-chung Yeung, 1972-; edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-, in Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016, originally published 2016), 309 page(s)
In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success and industrial tr...
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written by Henry Wai-chung Yeung, 1972-; edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-, in Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016, originally published 2016), 309 page(s)
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In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success and industrial transformation in the region. State-assisted startups and incubator firms in East Asia have become major players in the manufacture of pr...
In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success and industrial transformation in the region. State-assisted startups and incubator firms in East Asia have become major players in the manufacture of products with a global reach: Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision has assembled more than 500 million iPhones, for instance, and South Korea's Samsung provides the iPhone's semiconductor chips and retina displays. Drawing on extensive interviews with top executives and senior government officials, Yeung argues that since the late 1980s, many East Asian firms have outgrown their home states, and are no longer dependent on state support; as a result the developmental state has lost much of its capacity to steer and direct industrialization. We cannot read the performance of national firms as a direct outcome of state action. Yeung calls for a thorough renovation of the still-dominant view that states are the primary engine of industrial transformation. He stresses action by national firms and traces various global production networks to incorporate both firm-specific activities and the international political economy. He identifies two sets of dynamics in these national-global articulations known as strategic coupling: coevolution in the confluence of state, firm, and global production networks, and the various strategies pursued by East Asian firms to attain competitive positions in the global marketplace.
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Global Issues
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Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-
Author / Creator
Henry Wai-chung Yeung, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Topic / Theme
New Global Economic Order, Government, Manufacturing industry, Business enterprises, Economic development, Economic conditions, Politics & Policy, Economics, Politics and Economy in Developing Countries, Big Emerging Markets, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Cornell Studies in Political Economy, The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective
written by Simon Reich, fl. 1989; edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-, in Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990, originally published 1990), 361 page(s)
The West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime. Reich contends that ideological and institutional characteristics originating under fascism were sustained despite Germany's return to democracy and heavily influ...
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written by Simon Reich, fl. 1989; edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-, in Cornell Studies in Political Economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990, originally published 1990), 361 page(s)
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The West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime. Reich contends that ideological and institutional characteristics originating under fascism were sustained despite Germany's return to democracy and heavily influenced the economic success of its automobile industry. By contrast, the liberal economic policies of the British state led in time to t...
The West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime. Reich contends that ideological and institutional characteristics originating under fascism were sustained despite Germany's return to democracy and heavily influenced the economic success of its automobile industry. By contrast, the liberal economic policies of the British state led in time to the decline of an industrial sector that in 1930 had closely resembled its German counterpart. Through detailed comparative histories of German and British automobile firms, Reich challenges traditional explanations of the divergent performances of the two nations' economies and sheds new light on the relationship between state policy and economic success in pre- and postwar Europe. Liberal, nondiscriminatory British policies favorable to multinational investment contributed significantly to the decline of domestic firms, he argues, so that eventually multinationals could threaten the health of the entire British economy by investing elsewhere. The Nazi state, however, thwarted the development of American subsidiaries and fostered a core of producers, government officials, bankers, and labor union leaders.
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Global Issues
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Book
Contributor
Peter J. Katzenstein, 1945-
Author / Creator
Simon Reich, fl. 1989
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Topic / Theme
Free Market Economies, History of Trade, Political reforms, Fascism, Automobile manufacturing, Economic conditions, Nazism, Economics, Industrial Transformation, Innovation, and Competition, Global History of Trade, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies, The Ironies of Freedom: Sex, Culture, and Neoliberal Governance in Vietnam
written by Thu-hương Nguyễn-võ, 1962-, in Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 365 page(s)
In the late 1980s, Vietnam joined the global economy after decades of war and relative isolation, demonstrating how a former socialist government can adapt to global market forces with their neoliberal emphasis on freedom of choice for entrepreneurs and consumers. The Ironies of Freedom examines an aspect of this...
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written by Thu-hương Nguyễn-võ, 1962-, in Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 365 page(s)
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In the late 1980s, Vietnam joined the global economy after decades of war and relative isolation, demonstrating how a former socialist government can adapt to global market forces with their neoliberal emphasis on freedom of choice for entrepreneurs and consumers. The Ironies of Freedom examines an aspect of this new market: commercial sex. Nguyen-vo offers an ambitious analysis of gender and class conflicts surrounding commercial sex as a site o...
In the late 1980s, Vietnam joined the global economy after decades of war and relative isolation, demonstrating how a former socialist government can adapt to global market forces with their neoliberal emphasis on freedom of choice for entrepreneurs and consumers. The Ironies of Freedom examines an aspect of this new market: commercial sex. Nguyen-vo offers an ambitious analysis of gender and class conflicts surrounding commercial sex as a site of market freedom, governmental intervention, and depictions in popular culture to argue that these practices reveal the paradoxical nature of neoliberalism. What the case of Vietnam highlights is that governing with current neoliberal globalization may and does take paradoxical forms, sustained not by some vestige from times past but by contemporary conditions. Of mutual benefit to both the neoliberal global economy and the ruling party in Vietnam is the use of empirical knowledge and entrepreneurial and consumer's choice differentially among segments of the population to produce different kinds of laborers and consumers for the global market. But also of mutual benefit to both are the police, the prison, and notions of cultural authenticity enabled by a ruling party with well-developed means of coercion from its history. The freedom-unfreedom pair in governance creates a tension in modes of representation conducive to a new genre of sensational social realism in literature and popular films like the 2003 Bar Girls about two women in the sex trade, replete with nudity, booze, drugs, violence, and death. The movie opened in Vietnam with unprecedented box office receipts, blazing a trail for a commercially viable domestic film industry. Combining methods and theories from the social sciences and humanities, Nguyen-vo's analysis relies on fieldwork conducted in Ho Chi Minh City and its vicinity, in-depth interviews with informants, participant observation at selected sites of sexual commerce and governmental intervention, journalistic accounts, and literature and films. This book will appeal to historians and political scientists of Southeast Asia and to scholars of gender and sexuality, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and political theory dealing with neoliberalism.
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Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Thu-hương Nguyễn-võ, 1962-
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Series
Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
Topic / Theme
Women and Trade, New Global Economic Order, Politics, Globalization, Women, Prostitution, Economics, Politics & Policy, History, Human Rights, Social Justice, and Ethical Consumption, Big Emerging Markets, Vietnamese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Culture, Place, and Nature, Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
written by Dolly Kikon, 1975-, in Culture, Place, and Nature (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2019, originally published 2019), 204 page(s)
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble...
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written by Dolly Kikon, 1975-, in Culture, Place, and Nature (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2019, originally published 2019), 204 page(s)
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The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they s...
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, and the scramble for natural resources regulate the lives of Naga, Ahom, and Adivasi people, as well as migrants from elsewhere in the region, as they struggle to find peace and work. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon uses in-depth ethnographic accounts to address the complexity of Northeast India, a region between Southeast Asia and China where boundaries and borders are made, disputed, and maintained. Bringing a fresh and exciting direction to borderland studies, she explores the social bonds established through practices of resource extraction and the tensions these relations generate, focusing on peoples’ love for the landscape and for the state, as well as for family, friends, and neighbors. Living with Oil and Coal illuminates questions of citizenship, social justice, and environmental politics that are shared by communities worldwide.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Dolly Kikon, 1975-
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Series
Culture, Place, and Nature
Topic / Theme
Politics of Oil and Gas, Extractive technologies, Oil mines and mining, Coal mines and mining, Economics, Anthropology, Global Energy, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne. Zwölf Vorlesungen
written by Jürgen Habermas, 1929- (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1985), 450 page(s)
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written by Jürgen Habermas, 1929- (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1985), 450 page(s)
Field of Study
Social Theory
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Jürgen Habermas, 1929-
Date Published / Released
1985
Publisher
Suhrkamp Verlag
Topic / Theme
Capitalism, Philosophy, Language and linguistics, Industrialization, Sociology, Honesty
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Copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag Gmbh & Co. KG 1985. All permission requests should be directed to the publisher.
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Determining the Feasibility of Developing a Craft Business Enterprise for Rural Low Income U.S. Citizens Living in the San Luis Valley
written by Colorado. Commission on the Status of Women (Denver, CO: Colorado. Commission on the Status of Women, 1974, originally published 1974), 200 page(s)
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written by Colorado. Commission on the Status of Women (Denver, CO: Colorado. Commission on the Status of Women, 1974, originally published 1974), 200 page(s)
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Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Colorado. Commission on the Status of Women
Date Published / Released
1974
Publisher
Colorado. Commission on the Status of Women
Topic / Theme
Cottage industries, Wages and salaries, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft: Zweiter Teilband, Kapitel 4-5
written by Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998 (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997), 569 page(s)
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written by Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998 (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997), 569 page(s)
Field of Study
Social Theory
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Suhrkamp Verlag
Topic / Theme
Communication, Philosophers, Philosophy, Political theory, Industrialization, Societal structure, Sociology
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Copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag Gmbh & Co. KG 1997. All permission requests should be directed to the publisher.
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Die neue Unübersichtlichkeit. Kleine politische Schriften V
written by Jürgen Habermas, 1929- (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1985), 268 page(s)
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written by Jürgen Habermas, 1929- (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1985), 268 page(s)
Field of Study
Social Theory
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Jürgen Habermas, 1929-
Date Published / Released
1985
Publisher
Suhrkamp Verlag
Topic / Theme
Capitalism, Conservatism, Democracy, Intellectual life, Philosophers, Philosophy, Political causes, Industrialization, Sociology
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Copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag Gmbh & Co. KG 1985. All permission requests should be directed to the publisher.
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Die Religion der Gesellschaft
written by Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998 (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000), 362 page(s)
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written by Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998 (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000), 362 page(s)
Field of Study
Social Theory
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Niklas Luhmann, 1927-1998
Date Published / Released
2000
Publisher
Suhrkamp Verlag
Topic / Theme
Communication, Industrialization, Religion, Religious faiths, Sociology, Theology
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