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Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy

Abstract

Unprecedented levels of instability and uncertainty have been generated by the complexity of events and trends in the contemporary global political economy. To a large extent, at the crux of this instability is the growing political salience of various forces and activities that appear to transcend and impinge not only upon existing political boundaries and forms of economic production and distribution, but also on the values that underpin social institutions and existing modes of social and cultural differentiation. These activities include, but are not limited to, the phenomenal growth in global trade and private capital flows, increased pressures for financial liberalization and the growing instability of national currencies, increased cross-border flows of people and ideas, and the growth of transnational social movements as well as in various illicit activities associated with transnational organized crime.

Authors

McBride S; Griffin Cohen M; Dobuzinskis L; Busumtwi-Sam J

Series

Social Indicators Research Series

Volume

13

Pagination

pp. 1-6

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

January 1, 2002

DOI

10.1007/978-94-010-0251-6_1

Conference proceedings

Social Indicators Research Series

ISSN

1387-6570

Labels

Fields of Research (FoR)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

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