End of Millennium

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This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantialnew preface, is devoted to processes of global social changeinduced by the transition from the old industrial society to theemerging global network society. * Explains why China, rather than Japan, is the economic andpolitical actor that is revolutionizing the global system * Reflects on the contradictions of European unification,proposing the concept of the network state * Substantial new preface assesses the validity of thetheoretical construction presented in the conclusion of thetrilogy, proposing some conceptual modifications in light of theobserved experience

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Manuel Castells

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