Ebook: Governing under Stress: Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization

Focuses on four countries - Canada, Mexico, Norway and Australia - characterised as 'semi-peripheral': that is, conscious of subordination to the centre - the United States - but with the means to resist, which differentiates them from both those countries at the centre which lack any such consciousness, and powerless countries on the periphery.;Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Table of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: States under Siege; 2 Globalization and the Social Question; Part I: Semi-peripheral Countries: Norway, Mexico, Australia, Canada; 3 Globalization in Norwegian: Peculiarities at the European Fringe; 4 Norway, the EEA, and Neo-liberal Globalism; 5 The Rise and Fall of an 'Organized Fantasy': The Negotiation of Status as Periphery and Semi-periphery by Mexico and Latin America; 6 Mexico: Relocating the State within a New Global Regime; 7 Australia: Asian Outpost or Big-time Financial Dealer?