State and Sovereignty in the World Economy
February 21-23, 1997
Welcoming Remarks:Jack Peltason,
UC President Emeritus, UCI Chancellor Emeritus
Keynote Address:
States? Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Capitalists in an Age of Transition
Immanuel Wallerstein, State University of New York-BinghamtonDiscussant: Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
Historical Session
Chair: James Given, University of California, Irvine
The Modern Colonial State in Asia and Africa: Closed and Open Dynamics
William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of LondonTwo Worlds of Trade, Two Worlds of Empire:
Cores and Peripheries in East Asia and the Atlantic, ca. 1500-1800
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, IrvineThe Economics of the Latin American State:
Ideology, Policy and Performance, 1820-1945
Colin M Lewis, London School of EconomicsDiscussants:
R. Bin Wong, University of California, Irvine
Steven Topik, University of California, IrvineEurope and East Asia
Chair: Dorothy Solinger, University of California, Irvine
From Comprador State to Auctioneer State: Property Change, Realignment
and the Peripheralization of Post-State-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe
Jozsef Böröcz, Rutgers UniversityDemocracy at Risk?
The Impact of European Integration on National Patterns of Policy Making
Vivien Schmidt, University of Massachusetts, BostonGeopolitics, Geoeconomics and Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization
Richard Stubbs, McMaster UniversityDiscussants:
Wayne Sandholtz, University of California, Irvine
Su-Hoon Lee, Kyungnam UniversityChina, Africa and Mexico
Chair: Steven C. Topik, University of California, Irvine
Free Market Globalization as Enhancer of Forces of War and Revanchist Nativism:
The Struggle in China Over International Economic Integration
Edward Friedman, University of WisconsinHemmed In?: The State in Africa and Global Liberalization
Julius E. Nyang'oro, University of North CarolinaPesos, Policies, and Predictions:
The Mexican Crisis and International Constraints on Policy Making
Manuel Pastor, UC Santa CruzDiscussants:
Dorothy Solinger, University of California, Irvine
Barbara Stallings, UN Economic Commission for Latin AmericaStructural Session
Discussant: Wayne Sandholtz, University of California, Irvine
Stateness, Regionality, and the 'Endless' Accumulation of Capital
Giovanni Arrighi, State University of New York-BinghamtonSovereignty and the Nation-State in an Age of Global Finance
Erik Helleiner, York UniversityInstitutional Theories and Alternative Conceptions of Sovereignty
Stephen Krasner, Stanford UniversityThe State and the New Geography of Power
Sassen Saskia, Columbia UniversityDiscussants:
Barbara Stallings, U.N. Economic Commision for Latin America
David Smith, UC IrvineThis conference is co-sponsored with the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation; Global Peace and Conflict Studies; UCI Office of Research and Graduate Studies; UCI Collaborative Research in the Humanities. For additional information contact the program organizers: David Smith, Dorothy Solinger, and Steven Topik.