New Medievalism and Imperial Decline
Dr John Rapley
"The barbarians are at the gates. But they’re not who you might think." So begins Dr John Rapley's excursus into the topic of new medievalism. As globalisation proceeds, economic and political empires as we know them have started to decline and the concept of national sovereignty -- to lose its meaning. The periphery is set to converge in income to the core, as it did in the times of the Roman Empire. What are we to think of the modern state? What will be the results of globalisation? Is global convergence inevitable? Perplexing questions, no doubt -- but CSEP's 'NOT in the curriculum' series has prepared an engaging discussion to provide you some food for thought.
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Dr John Rapley has worked at universities in Britain, the US, Canada, France, South Africa and the Caribbean. From 2003-2011 he left the classroom to create the Caribbean’s first independent think tank, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute. He also has a long history as a public scholar, and has published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, from the Jamaica Gleaner to Esquire.
John Rapley is currently interested in issues relating to globalization and governance. Most recently, he has paid particular attention to policy coalitions and informal governance – or what he has called the new medievalism. He also maintains a long-standing interest in both the theory and practice of development, and his Understanding Development remains in widespread use around the world as a textbook in development studies.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Articles/Detail/?lng=en&id=175500
Dr John Rapley has worked at universities in Britain, the US, Canada, France, South Africa and the Caribbean. From 2003-2011 he left the classroom to create the Caribbean’s first independent think tank, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute. He also has a long history as a public scholar, and has published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, from the Jamaica Gleaner to Esquire.
John Rapley is currently interested in issues relating to globalization and governance. Most recently, he has paid particular attention to policy coalitions and informal governance – or what he has called the new medievalism. He also maintains a long-standing interest in both the theory and practice of development, and his Understanding Development remains in widespread use around the world as a textbook in development studies.
