This article outlines the main elements of rupture and continuity in the global political economy since the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. While the current calamity poses a more systemic challenge to neoliberal globalization than genetically similar turbulences in the semi-periphery...

The rise of BRICs presents a major challenge to the existing global order. A second category of emerging powers, which may be labeled near-BRICs have also displayed increasing pro-activism in recent years in terms of influencing the regional balance of power politics, in addition to their...

Financial globalization offers both risks and benefits for countries of the semi-periphery orthe so-called "emerging markets". Politics within the national space matters, yet acquires a new meaning, in the age of financial globalization. "Weak democracies" are characterized by limited...

The Argentine experiment of the 1990s attracted significant international attention as a model case of neo-liberal restructuring. The Turkish version of neo-liberalism had also been identified as a success case during its early stages in the mid-1980s. Subsequent crises in both countries,...