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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Development of Industrial Capitalism and Democracy in Europe and in the Contemporary Third World -- 2. Europe's Colonial Past and "Artificially" Constructed States -- 3. Nationalism, the Aristocracy, and the State -- 4. The Erroneous Class Succession Thesis -- 5. Dependency and Development in Europe -- 6. Between Feudalism and Capitalism: Industrial Development in Europe before the World Wars -- 7. The Myth of European Democracy before the World Wars -- 8. Conclusions: Industrial Capitalist Development in Comparative-Historical Perspective -- Statistical Appendix -- Political Appendix -- References -- Index

This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession. It tracks the significant growth and important structural changes in the financial sector during the past few decades, both of which made the economy more vulnerable to perceptions of risk in the markets. Halperin argues that conventional economic models have lost relevance by failing to take these developments into account appropriately, and also explains that because of financial globalization we can no longer understand what happens in the economies of major countries by relying on "closed-economy" thinking. The book concludes with a list of policy recommendations designed to increase the resilience of the financial markets to negative economic developments and to reduce incentives for risk taking, including a proposal to eliminate the double taxation of dividends.

1. Introduction -- 2. The emotion-based approach to conflict resolution : some basic concepts -- 3. Intergroup hatred in intractable conflicts : the ultimate barrier to peace -- 4. Intergroup anger in intractable conflicts : not exactly what you had in mind. -- 5. Societies under threat : collective fear and angst as barriers and (at times) catalysts of peace -- 6. Is peace really an option? Hope, despair, and the peace process -- 7. Moral emotions in intractable conflicts : group-based guilt, conflict resolution, and reconciliation -- 8. Empathy as a peace catalyst in intractable conflict : is it feasible? Is it enough? -- 9. The catch-22 of intractable conflicts : the role of pride and humiliation in conflicts and peace processes -- 10. Changing feelings to promote peace : emotion regulation as a new path to conflict resolution.

The nation-state is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Human history over the past two to four millennia has been dominated by empires, and the legacies of these empires continues to shape the contemporary world in ways that are not always recognised or fully understood. Much research and writing about European colonial empires has focused on relations between them and their colonies. This book examines the phenomenon of empire from a different perspective. It explores the imprint that imperial institutions, organisational principles, practices, and logics have left on the modern world. It shows that many features of the contemporary world – modern armies, multiculturalism, globalised finance, modern city-states, the United Nations – have been profoundly shaped by past empires. It also applies insights about the impact of past empires to contemporary politics and considers the long-term institutional legacies of the American 'empire'

The authors of the best-selling Game Change present an account of the 2012 presidential election that draws on hundreds of insider interviews to illuminate what the election meant to both parties, covering such topics as the dramatic Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's Election Day triumph

1. Global development -- 2. The origins and development of capitalism -- 3. Industrialization and the expansion of capital : core and periphery redefined -- 4. City states and nationalism -- 5. The imperial 'historic bloc' of the nineteenth century -- 6. The system unravels : contraction, conflict and social revolution -- 7. The post-World War II interregnum -- 8. Globalization redux.

"Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. 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, Halperin shows that nationally organised economic growth has rarely been the case - it has only recently come to characterise a few countries and for only a few decades. This innovative text elaborates an alternative ontology and way of thinking about global development during the last two centuries - one linked, not to nations and regions, but to a set of essentially trans-national relations and connections. It argues that capitalist development has, everywhere and from the start, involved--not whole nations or societies-but only sectors or geographical areas within states. By bringing this aspect of historically 'normal' capitalist development into clearer focus, the book clarifies the specific conditions and circumstances that enabled European economies to pursue a more broad-based development following World War II, and what prevented a similar outcome in the contemporary 'third world'. It also clarifies the nature, spatial extent, and circumstances of current globalising trends."--Publisher's website.

"This book revisits the historical terrain of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944). Recent years have seen a remarkable resurgence of interest in Polanyi's powerful account of the rise and demise of Europe's nineteenth-century market system. However, this book argues that Polanyi's analysis is, in important ways, inaccurate and misleading. Sandra Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures during the development of industrial capitalism in Europe and the way in which these structures shaped states and state behavior and generated conflict. She documents European conflicts between 1789 and 1914, including small- and medium-scale conflicts often ignored by researchers, and links these conflicts to structures characteristic of industrial capitalist development in Europe before 1945. Ultimately, the book shows how and why these conflicts both culminated in the world wars and brought about a "great transformation" in Europe. Its account of this period challenges not only Polanyi's analysis but a variety of influential perspectives on nationalism, development, conflict, international systems change, and globalization."--Jacket