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"Manuel Castells concludes the Information Age trilogy by considering the intersection of the global network society and factional project identities. As always, the scope of Castell's argument is far-ranging. Among the subjects addressed are the collapse of the Soviet Union; the potential emergence of the Asian Pacific as the next region of major world power; and the rapidly increasing growth of a "Fourth World"--A series of "black holes of informational capitalism" (areas that have been cut off from the flow of wealth and information in the global economy) that refuses to confine itself to national borders--as likely to appear in the American inner city as it is in sub-Saharan Africa. He also raises the specter of a "global criminal economy," a dark counterpart to transnational corporations, and suggests that trends such as fascination with gangster movies "may well indicate the cultural breakdown of traditional moral order, and the implicit recognition of a new society, made up of communal identity and unruly competition." End of Millennium is perhaps the most accessible of Castell's three volumes, expertly reading the pulse of late-20th-century social trends. It's bound to provoke debate about any efforts to shape the trends of the 21st century."--http://www.amazon.com (April 12, 2011).
A Time of Change ----1. The Crisis of Industrial Statism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. The Extensive Model of Economic Growth and the Limits of Hyper industrialism --- The Technology Question --- The Abduction of Identity and the Crisis of Soviet Federalism --- The Last Perestroika --- Nationalism, Democracy, and the Disintegration of the Soviet State --- The Scars of History, the Lessons for Theory, the Legacy for Society ----2. The Rise of the Fourth World: Informational Capitalism, Poverty, and Social Exclusion. Toward a Polarized World? A Global Overview --- The De-humanization of Africa --- The New American Dilemma: Inequality, Urban Poverty, and Social Exclusion in the Information Age --- Globalization, Over-exploitation, and Social Exclusion: the View from the Children ---Conclusion: the Black Holes of Informational Capitalism ---- 3. The Perverse Connection: the Global Criminal Economy. Organizational Globalization of Crime, Cultural Identification of Criminals --- The Pillage of Russia --- Mechanisms of Accumulation --- Narcotrafico, Development, and Dependency in Latin America ---The Impact of Global Crime on Economy, Politics, and Culture ---- 4. Development and Crisis in the Asian Pacific: Globalization and the State. The Changing Fortunes of the Asian Pacific --- Heisei's Japan: Developmental State versus Information Society --- Beheading the Dragon? Four Asian Tigers with a Dragon Head, and their Civil Societies --- Chinese Developmental Nationalism with Socialist Characteristics -- Conclusion: Globalization and the State ---- 5. The Unification of Europe: Globalization, identity, and the Network State -- European Unification as a Sequence of Defensive Reactions: a Half-century Perspective --- Globalization and European Integration --- Cultural Identity and European Unification --- The Institutionalization of Europe: the Network State --- European Identity of European Project? ---- Conclusion: Making Sense of our World.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-426) and index.