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Modernizacja i westernizacja w gospodarce przestrzennej XXI wieku
MODERNIZATION AND WESTERNIZATION IN SPATIAL ECONOMY OF THE XXIST CENTURY

Author(s): Katarzyna Miszczak
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: MODERN SPACE; S. HUNTINGTON CONCEPT; MODERNIZATION; WESTERNIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents new challenges for spatial economy of the XXIst century. Spe¬cial attention is paid to sources, reasons, mechanisms and features of two processes determin¬ing modern civilization: modernization and westernization. The types of reactions of individ¬ual multispatial units for the pressure of the West and modernization are described. The author also presents the assumptions of international relations theory according to Samuel Hunting¬ton and the prerequisites and barriers of their practical applications in global economy.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 152
  • Page Range: 360-367
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish