This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.

PHOEBE MOORE is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Salford, UK. She has published work on Gramsci's concept of passive revolution, labour struggle, and work in peer-to-peer production. Her interdisciplinary approach allows her to now read labour process theory and to write about the sociology of work in the international as well as virtual worlds.
 
OWEN WORTH is a lecturer of International Relations at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia (2005) and co-editor (with Jason P. Abbott) of Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy (2002).