This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; P.Moore & O.Worth PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE SEMI-PERIPHERY Whatever Happened to the Semi-Periphery?; O.Worth Halfway to Paradise? Making Sense of the Semi-Periphery; H.Radice Globalisation, Accumulation by Dispossession and the Rise of the Semi-Periphery: Towards Global Post-Fordism and Crisis?; G.Strange PART II: GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE IN THE SEMI-PERIPHERY The South American Semi-Periphery: Brazil and Argentina; E.Vivares Economic Development in the East Asian (semi) Periphery; J.P.Abbott China and India: The New Powerhouses of the Semi-Periphery; G.Downes 'Upper Volta with Gas'? Russia as a Semi-Peripheral State; R.Simon Turkey in the World System and the New Orientation; P.Moore& C.Dannreuther PART III: NEW SEMI-PERIPHERAL DEVELOPMENTS AND POSSIBLE FUTURE CEE as a new Semi-Periphery: Transnational Social Forces and Poland's Transition; S.Shields A Semi-Periphery to Global Capital: Global Governance and lines of flight for Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres; W.Vlcek Towards a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth: Semi-Peripheral Transformation in a Post-Peak World- System; K.Lawrence Semi-Peripheral Development and Global Democracy; C.Chase-Dunn  &  T.Boswell Bibliography Index

PHOEBE MOORE is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Salford, UK. She has published work on Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, labour struggle, and work in peer-to-peer production. Her interdisciplinary approach allows her to now read labour process theory and to write about the sociology of work in the international as well as virtual worlds.
 
OWEN WORTH is a lecturer of International Relations at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia (2005) and co-editor (with Jason P. Abbott) of Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy (2002).