End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume III , 2nd Edition with a New Preface

by Manuel Castells (University of Southern California, USA)

• ISBN13: 9781444323443
• ISBN10: 144432344X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society. Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global system Reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state Substantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Charts

Preface to the 2010 Edition of End of Millennium

Acknowledgments 1997

A Time of Change

The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

The Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyperindustrialism

The Technology Question

The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism

The Last Perestroika

Nationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State

The Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society

The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion

Toward a Polarized World? A Global Overview

The De-humanization of Africa

Marginalization and selective integration of Sub-Saharan Africa in the informational-global economy

Africa's technological apartheid at the dawn of the Information Age

The predatory state

Zaire: the personal appropriation of the state

Nigeria: oil, ethnicity, and military predation

Ethnic identity, economic globalization, and state formation in Africa

Africa's plight

Africa's hope? The South African connection

Out of Africa or back to Africa? The politics and economics of self-reliance

The New American Dilemma: Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age

Dual America

The inner-city ghetto as a system of social exclusion

When the underclass goes to hell

Globalization, Over-exploitation, and Social Exclusion: the View from the Children

The sexual exploitation of children

The killing of children: war massacres and child soldiers

Why children are wasted

Conclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism

The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy

Organizational Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of Criminals

The Pillage of Russia

The structural perspective

Identifying the actors

Mechanisms of Accumulation

Narcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin America

What are the economic consequences of the drugs industry for Latin America?

Why Colombia?

The Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and Culture

Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State

The Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific

Heisei's Japan: Developmental State versus Information Society

A social model of the Japanese developmental process

Declining sun: the crisis of the Japanese model of development

The end of "Nagatacho politics"

Hatten Hokka and Johoka Shakai: a contradictory relationship

Japan and the Pacific

Beheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil Societies

Understanding Asian development

Singapore: state nation-building via multinational corporations

South Korea: the state production of oligopolistic capitalism

Taiwan: flexible capitalism under the guidance of an inflexible state

Hong Kong model versus Hong Kong reality: small business in a world economy, and the colonial version of the welfare state

The breeding of the tigers: commonalities and dissimilarities in their process of economic development

The developmental state in East Asian industrialization: on the concept of the developmental state

The rise of the developmental state: from the politics of survival to the process of nation-building

The state and civil society in the restructuring of East Asia: how the developmental state succeeded in the development process

Divergent paths: Asian "tigers" in the economic crisis

Democracy, identity, and development in East Asia in the 1990s

Chinese Developmental Nationalism with Socialist Characteristics

The new Chinese revolution

Guanxi capitalism? China in the global economy

China's regional developmental states and the bureaucratic (capitalist) entrepreneurs

Weathering the storm? China in the Asian economic crisis

Democracy, development, and nationalism in the new China

Conclusion: Globalization and the State

The Unification of Europe: Globalization, Identity, and the Network State

European Unification as a Sequence of Defensive Reactions: a Half-century Perspective

Globalization and European Integration

Cultural Identity and European Unification

The Institutionalization of Europe: the Network State

European Identity or European Project?

Conclusion: Making Sense of our World

Genesis of a New World

A New Society

The New Avenues of Social Change

Beyond this Millennium

What is to be Done?

Finale

Summary of Contents of Volumes I and II

References

Index

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