出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：In this paper I want to challenge the adequacy of both of these two ideas for understanding globalization, the new uneven development that it is producing, and the political reactions to this. In their place I argue for the importance of the geopolitical role of the United States and the vision of world economic order, or transnational liberalism, that post-World War II US governments have actively sponsored, both unilaterally and multilaterally (through global institutions they created, such as the IMF and World Trade Organization) in the emergence of the new global economy and its geographical structure. In this perspective, tech-nological changes and the values associated with them have been enabling and encouraging, rather than determining in and of themselves, and common out-comes with respect to global norms, etc., are far from likely in a world still exhibiting large geographical di. erences in levels of economic development. In other words, the new global economy did not simply spring out of techno-logical changes powered by business imperatives and justifi ed by a logic of neo-liberal economics that have subsequently produced an increasingly homogenized world
