The Emergence of the Global Political Economy

by William R. Thompson

Book Overview

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 growth, global political leadership and global war and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041521453X
• ISBN13: 9780415214537
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"