End of Millennium, 2nd Edition, with a New PrefaceISBN: 978-1-4051-9688-8
Paperback
488 pages
March 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial
new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change
induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the
emerging global network society.
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Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic and political actor that is revolutionizing the global system
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Reflects on the contradictions of European unification, proposing the concept of the network state
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Substantial new preface assesses the validity of the theoretical construction presented in the conclusion of the trilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of the observed experience