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In which year did Held, McGrew, Goldblatt and Perraton publish Global Transformations, which set out the three-position map of the debate?
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- It appeared at the very end of the 1990s.
- Nineteen ninety-nine.
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1999
Why
1999. The book arrived at the peak of the argument and has outlasted most of the positions it catalogued, largely because it treated the dispute as an empirical one about the extent and direction of change rather than as a choice of political attitude.
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