IntroductionThe dramatic nature on contemporary crisis of global political and economic architecture is determined by two factors: the deep degradation of nation-state systems of political and ...economic management and unfinished construction of the new system of global geo-economics relevant to the ongoing political transformations. The synergy of the two factors formed the effect of chaotization of economically important geographic and sectorial industrial environments. That factors explains the fact that the economic interdependence interrelationships that were regarded earlies as critical were dismantled so easy.Purpose and importanceThe significance of the research is emphasized by starting phases of structural transformations of the system of global politics and economics that we witness at this point taking into consideration that Russia is a part of the global system despite the special status of the country. And it is necessary to address the on-going changes and a historical process. The goal of the article is to deconstruct the underling mechanisms that US and transnational elites use to manage the global geo-economic trends through the transition to system of economic regionalization.MethodsThe article is part of the research that author conducts since 2019. The intermediate results of the study were published in several major scientific, political and discussion platforms. The taken article is based upon the generalization of the experience of the global geo-economic transformations that are reflected in the different formats of the institutionalization. The analysis involves a wide circle of analytical and experts’ assessments regarding the perspectives of development of the global economic architecture.ResultsThe main scientific result of the article is to reconstruct the global geo-economic architecture that was planned for development in the period of mature America-centric globalization. The critical breakpoints that jeopardized the integrity of the global geo-economic environment are formulated. And in those breakpoints the scenario of «force geo-economics» can be employed. The variants of the post-crisis re-institutionalization in the neo-global world are outlined.Development and discussionThe article is the means to outline for the discussion the authors’ conclusion that are based upon the reflection of the period of dismantlement of the economic system of the mature globalization. The research creates a basis for clarification of the perspective status of the geo-economic periphery and semi-periphery which becomes a vital segment of the world economy. The article supplements the research emerged in Russia and in the West that addresses the issue of the new economic geography of the neo-global world. The article also gives the opportunity to clarify the perspective niche that Russia can occupy in the perspective geoeconomic architecture.
Capitalist globalisation has shown the need to define the semi-periphery as a new category that transcends the traditional core-periphery division. This paper aims to characterise this new category ...and understand the role it plays in the reorganisation of the production process, in addition to the effects this specific participation has on the global economy. Building on previous theoretical developments, this paper aims to analyse and identify these specific features, examining them through a set of economic, social and technological variables by applying principal component and cluster analyses. In doing so, the empirical analysis identifies a group of countries that have not been able to turn their current or recent economic dynamism into higher levels of socio-economic development.
After the 'unipolar moment' of the 1990s, the emerging multipolar world order has brought a new environment for regional organisations, which they are adjusting to. Mercosur and Visegrad Group, with ...semi-peripheral member states, are both categorised as intermediate regions with close institutionalised and cultural links to the Western world, while structural political and economic features distinguish them from the core regions. Carrying out a comparative analysis, the article's research question is: How have leadership, objectives and actorness changed in the case of Mercosur and Visegrad Group since 2000 as a response to the changing world order? A case study analysis explains the similarities and differences between Mercosur's and Visegrad Group's responses to and performance in the changing world order. Criticisms towards the traditional partners, shifting agendas, a search for alternatives beyond the Western model of market democracy and building links with emerging partners are the most essential similarities of Mercosur's and Visegrad Group's responses.
Following the military coup of April 25th, 1974, Portugal experienced a revolutionary period characterized by unprecedented levels of labor unrest and political radicalization. As the social ...landscape suffered a profound transformation, key-sectors of the economy were nationalized, many firms went into self-management, and large areas of the south were swept by land occupation. When the country’s democratic Constitution was brought to vote on April 2, 1976, it contained numerous references to “socialism,” “self-management,” “planning,” and “agrarian reform,” bearing witness to a widespread commitment to build a “classless society.” What eventually took shape, however, was a mixed economy under a parliamentary regime, very similar to that of countries like Greece and Spain, both of which experienced far less dramatic democratic transitions. Drawing on the writings of Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, this article analyzes the plans and strategies devised to ensure a socialist transition in the semiperiphery of the capitalist world-system during the 1970s.
Drawing upon both classic and more contemporary world-systems analysis, along with oft-forgotten sections of Arghiri Emmanuel’s work on technology, this paper studies, through a quantitative and ...qualitative comparative method, the history and development of the global semiconductors industry, its selective spatial re-organization/peripheralization over time, and the logic of technology transfers within the context of core-monopolization of high profit industries. The paper then draws comparisons between semiconductors and prior core-monopolized industries like the automobile industry, and analyzes attempts at entry into core-like production by the large semi-peripheries such as China and India and the difficulties faced by them not only by the structural limitations of the world-system but also due to opposition from the core nations (like the U.S.-China Trade War). Resultingly, the analysis concludes that significant upward mobility for the large semi-peripheries through entry into core industries is, within the current capitalist world-system, largely unfeasible.
In tennis, the sweet spot on a racket marks the point at which a ball can be hit with the greatest power for the least effort. Public services in the globalising city of Krakow found themselves in ...precisely such a position before the large-scale forced migration inflows as a result of Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022. An analysis of the evaluations of public services by foreign residents in Krakow during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021) reveals, on the one hand, the overall satisfaction of users yet, on the other, significant differences in expectations and experiences amongst categories of foreign residents coming from global core, semi-peripheral and peripheral regions. The findings shed light on the nature of urban resilience in globalising cities like Krakow, which is encountering migration transitions, as well as the uneven nature of globalisation between services that have been internationalised and those which have not. The results expose considerable gaps in the process of the multi-faceted adaptation of city public services to meet the expectations of their dynamically changing population. The findings are particularly significant in the context of intensive forced migration inflows from Ukraine, critically reflecting on the resilience of public services on the eve of major shifts in population flows into the city.
•Home-gardening is a widespread practice in Croatia and Czechia.•Main motivation for FSP is fresh and healthy food and not the financial reasons.•FSP brings significant, if usually unintended, ...environmental benefits.•Framing FSP on Eastern European context broadens the conceptual scope of responses to environmental crisis.
European accounts of home gardening or food self-provisioning (FSP) typically frame these practices as primarily economically motivated and need related, and community gardening or urban agriculture as ethical sustainability strategies. Drawing on primary research on FSP in two East European countries, this paper combines analysis of socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics of food self-provisioners with analysis of their motivations. There is strong evidence that while economic reasons are present FSP is primarily motivated, even in comparatively less affluent East European societies, by the desire to obtain fresh and healthy food and engage in a pleasurable activity. Based on our findings, we thus propose that a more appropriate framing for FSP in the European East and West alike is characterised by autonomy and community care. This would provide for a reengagement with the epistemology of sustainability-compliant behaviours and attitudes beyond the joy vs. limitations dichotomy. Given the performativity of social scientific research, rooting the framing on knowledge from East European societies, where FSP is widespread in all social groups, including the affluent middle class, is important for lending credence to alternative visions and practices that can enhance the sustainability of overdeveloped societies.
Drawing upon both classic and more contemporary world-systems analysis, along with oft-forgotten sections of Arghiri Emmanuel’s work on technology, this paper studies, through a quantitative and ...qualitative comparative method, the history and development of the global semiconductors industry, its selective spatial re-organization/peripheralization over time, and the logic of technology transfers within the context of core-monopolization of high profit industries. The paper then draws comparisons between semiconductors and prior core-monopolized industries like the automobile industry, and analyzes attempts at entry into core-like production by the large semi-peripheries such as China and India and the difficulties faced by them not only by the structural limitations of the world-system but also due to opposition from the core nations (like the U.S.-China Trade War). Resultingly, the analysis concludes that significant upward mobility for the large semi-peripheries through entry into core industries is, within the current capitalist world-system, largely unfeasible.
