The challenges of global integration

Author: Samir Amin
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Globalization, the integration of the world, is a historical process of social development. If its previous forms accelerated historical progress and provided opportunities for the lagging to catch up with the advanced, then its modern form is only conducive to the expansion of capitalism, creating inequality in the system. After the war, the plans of its member countries forced capitalism to make significant social compromises, and the state gained legitimacy, establishing regulatory mechanisms for global integration. This book comprehensively studies the diversity of challenges facing the world and the responses from different regions (Europe, Russia, China, the Third World) to these challenges. These reactions, which are still contradictory to this day, will adversely affect European construction, the reconstruction of Eastern European countries, and the integration of the Third World into the global system. Can we break out of these dead ends and devise new membership plans that recombine modern, deepened global integration with the aspirations for human progress and liberation? The author provides some valuable theoretical insights on this.