Transnational processes, development studies and changing social hierarchies in the world system: a Central American case study

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This article addresses the impact of globalization on the social hierarchies in Central America. The author argues the capitalistic global system is creating a shift in the social hierarchies through the uneven accumulation of wealth in certain regions, which is based upon geography and social groups, and not nation-states, contributing to the fragmentation of national economies and fueling social polarization.

Geography, Social groups

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Peace-building in the periphery: lessons from Central America

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Complex political emergencies are almost entirely phenomena of the 1990s, usually happening in historically weak nations where the influences of globalization have become more important than nation-building concerns. Central America has begun to recover from its civil wars in the 1980s although reconstruction and peace-making efforts are often undermined.

Analysis, Political aspects, Developing countries, Military aspects, Reconciliation, Military art and science, Military science

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Beyond the third world: imperial globality, global coloniality and anti-globalisation social movements

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The movements representing the best hope for reworking imperial globality and global coloniality in ways that make imagining after the Third World, and beyond modernity are discussed.

United States, Public affairs, American imperialism

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