Bulletin n. 3/2007
December 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Halperin Sandra
    Re-Envisioning Global Development: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
    in Globalizations , Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2007 ,  2007 ,  543 - 558
    Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However, this paper argues that capitalist development has, everywhere and from the start, involved not whole nations or societies but only sectors or geographical areas within states and territories. In fact, 'dualism' and other features associated with contemporary Third World 'dependent' development have been, until very recently, as characteristic of development in the countries of the so-called 'core' as it has of those of the 'periphery'. These features should be understood as products of historically 'normal' capitalist development, a strategic dimension and outcome of the trans-local exchange by which elites have always sought to maintain themselves as an elite and contain the rise of new classes locally. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to shift analytically the axis of view from the 'vertical' (states, regions) to the 'horizontal' (classes, networks) and, in this way, bring into view the synchronic and interdependent development of dynamic focal points of growth throughout the world shaped, both within and outside Europe, by trans-local interaction and connection, as well as by local struggles and relations.
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