Globalization's Alternatives
Competing or Complementary Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6267010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Glenn (0000-0001-9694-8282, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-110 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00244.x |
| OpenAlex | W2071158268 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Recent writings on globalization have tended to argue that such economic interconnectedness is, in one way or another, geographically delimited. Three competing views appear in the literature, regionalization, triadization and the involutionist perspective. This article challenges the portrayal of these perspectives as competing conceptions and instead argues that each perspective furnishes us with a partial view of a larger process. In so doing, this paper revisits the involutionist perspective, arguing that, in relation to the developing countries’ relative share of world trade and investment shares, the use of the term ‘globalization’ should be questioned. Rather, in relation to trade, involution is a more apt description. However, in terms of FDI, stasis better describes the contemporary international economy. The article then examines the trade and investment patterns within the triad, corroborating earlier findings that each leg of the triad is increasingly trading more with their neighbours than with each other, but that inter-triad FDI is indeed increasing. Three main factors are presented in order to explain the contemporary patterns of trade and investment associated with involution, regionalization and triadization: product differentiation, vertical specialization and the continuing concentration on primary product production in much of the developing world
Economic system · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Globalization · International trade · Investment (military · Involution (esoterism · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Political science · Product (mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Triad (sociology · World economy · Global trade and economics · International Business and FDI · International Development and Aid · Law
Globalization
The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade
The Technological Structure and Performance of Developing Country Manufactured Exports, 1985‐98
Growing World Trade
Global Shift
Regionalism
The Globalisation debate
The globalisation of economic activity
The Asian economic crisis
Globalisation or imperialism
Globalisation or regionalism? States, markets and the structure of international trade
The Geopolitics of the Asian Crisis
What's Globalization Got to Do with It? Economic Interdependence and the Future of European Welfare States
Age of Reverse Aid
The Asian economic implosion
Globalization in one country? The peculiarities of the British
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |