The Nation in the Global Era: Conflict and Transformation

Introduction

Section I. The Transnational Class Structure and the State

Globalization Today: At the Borders of Class and State Theory
William Tabb

Statist Globalization in China, Russia and the Gulf States
Jerry Harris

Australia Has a Transnational Capitalist Class?
Georgina Murray

El Salvador and the Central American Free Trade Agreement: Consolidation of a Transnational Capitalist Class
Cori Madrid

The Migration-Development Model Can Serve Two Masters: The Transnational Capitalist Class and National Development
Rubin Patterson

Toward a Theory of Global Proletarian Fractions
Jason Struna

Section II. The Political Economy of Globalization

Towards a Reformulation of Core/Periphery Relationship: A Critical Reappraisal of the Trimodality of the Capitalist World-Economy in the Early 21st Century
Kwangkun Lee

The Political Economy of US Wars of Choice: Are They Really Oil Wars?
Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Hilferding’s Finance Capital versus Wal-Mart World: Disaggregating the Dollar’s Hegemony
Greg Nowell

Neoliberal Agenda in Bolivia and its Aftermath
Magda von der Heydt-Coca

European Markets as Challenges or Opportunities for Mexican SMEs’ Internationalization: A Critical Analysis of Globalization
Lorena Garcia Ruiz

Intellectual Property Rights: The West, India, and China
John W. Sutherlin

Conflicts of Interest: Plasticity of Peace Tourism and the 21st Century Nation
Veda E.Ward

Section III. National Identity and Development

Globalization and Separatism: The Influence of Internal and External Interdependence on the Strategies of Separatism
Ryan D. Griffiths and Ivan Savic

Demystifying the Nation Globe Conundrum: A Preliminary Sketch
JoAnn Chirico

This Part of The Globe Is Not Flat: The Paradox of the Turkish Relationship with Northern Iraq and the Dilemma of Kurdish Politics across Borders
Kumru Toktamis

Turkey’s Imperial Legacy: Understanding Contemporary Turkey through Its Ottoman Past
Joshua W. Walker

Cyrillization of Republika Srpska
Sandeep Sen

Mexican and Peruvian National Identity Formation
Isaías R. Rivera

Section IV. The Environmental Impact

China's Role in the Challenge for Global Sustainable Development
Patrick Loy

Is Sustainable Capitalism an Oxymoron?
David Schweickart

Index