Globalization: Critical Reflections

✍ Scribed by James H. Mittelman (editor)

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The authors analyze the empirical trends constituting the globalization process in the late twentieth century and explain its underlying causes and consequences.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The Contributors
Preface
1 The Dynamics of Globalization
2 A Perspective on Globalization
Part 1 The Thrust of Globalization: Production and the State
3 The Spatial Organization of Information Industries: Implications for the Role of the State
4 The Elusive Last Lap in the Quest for Developed-Country Status
5 Rethinking the Role of the State
Part 2 The Counterthrust to Globalization: Political and Cultural Resistance
6 Global Restructuring and Labor: The Case of the South African Trade Union Movement
7 New Social Movements: Democratic Struggles and Human Rights in Africa
8 The Reconstitution of Hegemony: The Free Trade Act and the Transformation of Rural Mexico
9 The Resurgence of Islam
Part 3 The Potential and Limits of Neoliberal Globalization
10 Globalization, Democratization, and the Politics of Indifference
11 How Does Globalization Really Work?
Bibliography
Index
About the Book

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