Globalisation Fractures

Author : Charles Dumas
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847656971

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Globalisation Fractures by Charles Dumas Pdf

In his previous books, The Bill from the China Shop and China and America: A Time of Reckoning, Charles Dumas was the first to identify the existence and potential impact of the Eurasian Savings Glut - most importantly how it would push US mortgage borrowing to excess, precipitating the global credit crisis. As we now strive to rescue the international financial system, he points to uncomfortable truths about the conflicts ahead. The US has reverted to debt-driven growth (this time, government debt), and its economic benefit is waning while the risk increases. China is veering back to export-led growth and large surpluses, increasingly at others' expense. Europe is squeezed between them, and the fixed-rate euro system is creating a subsidiary set of extreme imbalances: the Mediterranean cannot expand demand, while north-central Europe will not expand it. Globally, the choice may soon be between serially degrading US federal credit or putting up trade barriers. The first would undermine the world financial system, but the second would damage world trade, at huge expense to real incomes everywhere. Globalisation Fractures confronts the inherent conflicts as issues to be urgently addressed. This is the battleground upon which the future of the global economy will be determined.

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : Verso
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Financial crises
ISBN : 1859846734

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Contours of Descent by Robert Pollin Pdf

The concepts of modernity and modernism are among the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this new, muscular intervention, Pollin explores these notions in a fresh and illuminating manner.

Author : Christopher Frey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 0307356132

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Broken Atlas by Christopher Frey Pdf

Author : Petros Nousios,Henk Overbeek,Andreas Tsolakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136335075

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Globalisation and European Integration by Petros Nousios,Henk Overbeek,Andreas Tsolakis Pdf

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms. Divided into three parts, this book offers both empirical and theoretical analyses of social integration, supranationality and global competition. Drawing on Critical Political Economy research, Neo-Gramscian, Open Marxist, Regulationist and Post-structuralist scholars subject a wide range of European flagship policies in matters of competition, trade and security to critical scrutiny and relate them to global political economy dynamics. Contributors examine the ways in which current global economic turbulence has affected the European Union, its membership and its adjacent areas, and determine the potential for economic and political transformation in light of the global economic crisis and Europe’s 2020 Strategy. In the emerging multi-polar world, in which the EU and the US are expected to share global policymaking with new powers, this book argues for a revised conceptualisation of European integration and its relationship with globalisation. Globalisation and European Integration will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of globalisation, political economy, international relations, and European Union politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004188969

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Neoliberalism’s Fractured Showcase by Anonim Pdf

This collection focuses on the multiple consequences of neoliberal policies in Chile and places its "showcase" status and its re-democratization process into serious question. The volume argues that breaking the status quo is possible, urgent and necessary.

Author : Shahidur Rahman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739178355

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Broken Promises of Globalization by Shahidur Rahman Pdf

Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry's integration into world markets and production chains. Shahidur Rahman has found that although globalization has created opportunities, the process of globalization has also triggered a deformed development leaving Bangladesh increasingly vulnerable to shifts and tensions within the world trading regime. Bangladesh’s vulnerability, experienced as a constraining framework by all the major actors in dependent industrialization, is of particular importance to the progress both of workers and of Bangladesh’s industrializing modernizers in the garment industry. This book intends to respond to three questions. First, has the garment industry been able to counteract the vulnerability that women garment workers had experienced in their villages? Second, is the formation of a welfare committee a substitute model for unions when it comes to protecting women’s rights? Finally, how is a Least Developing Country dealing with both domestic and external pressures in its response to globalization? Rahman argues that in spite of the opportunities created by the growth of the garment industry, the key actors such as workers, entrepreneurs, unions, and even the government have become vulnerable in the process of the global integration of this industry. This is an ethnographic study that tells the story of the rise, growth, and demise of a Bangladeshi garment company. From a broader approach, an internal force such as the government of Bangladesh is not alone in being responsible for pushing the workers into a vulnerable position; external pressure on the state is also responsible for intensifying the vulnerability of Bangladeshi institutions and actors. Broken Promises of Globalization exposes the crisis Bangladeshi garment companies face as a result of the momentous pressures emanating from the regime of neo-liberal globalization. This ethnographic study, exploring a wide range of contemporary and recent development issues, holds particular relevance for students and scholars of sociology, political science, political economics, labor, and development studies.

Author : Shahar Hameiri,Lee Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1009047485

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Fractured China by Shahar Hameiri,Lee Jones Pdf

"State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy If we want to understand China's international behaviour, we have to open the black box ... State authority is fragmenting, more and more actors are involved in the making of foreign policy, and implementing it. Authority is increasingly decentralised, and the players are increasingly internationalised. Researcher, Chinese Ministry of Public Security (Interviewee A32 2018) This chapter sets out the three main vectors of state transformation - the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of state apparatuses - and theorises their impact on China's foreign relations, establishing the framework that we deploy in the following empirical chapters. It argues that China's state transformation has shaped, and been shaped by, the post-1978 shift from the Maoist command economy to a capitalist economy. After describing the party-state's transformation, we theorise how Chinese foreign policy "works" in this new era. Rather than arguing that central authorities have simply lost power, we explore how power is exercised within the transformed party-state. We argue that a Chinese-style regulatory state has emerged, wherein top leaders rarely control state outputs directly, but rather seek to "steer" and coordinate a diverse array of actors towards often vaguely defined ends (Jones 2019). The mechanisms they use include the promulgation of party doctrine; speeches and slogans; the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) powers of appointment, appraisal and discipline; discretionary fiscal and policy concessions; and coordinating institutions. In turn, however, actors within the disaggregated party-state and state-society complex may influence, interpret, or even ignore central directives. Political outcomes depend on evolving struggles for power and resources within the Chinese-style regulatory state, which may involve both complementary and competitive interactions between actors within different agencies and located at different territorial scales. These struggles are rarely, if ever, decisively resolved, but continue throughout, and strongly influence, the implementation of foreign and security policies. Moreover, they interface with struggles for power and resources in other societies"--

Author : Charles Dumas
Publisher : Profile Books(GB)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1788161890

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Populism and Economics by Charles Dumas Pdf

Populism and Economics, Charles Dumas' latest book, examines the reasons for the rise in populism - Brexit and the election of Trump among other events - and how this discontent with the status quo has affected economics, both perceptions and reality. The book argues that while globalization and the influence of new technology have pulled the world economy out of recession and while the benefits of world trade are now spread more widely, there is a perception of injustice because of inequality within individual nations. In a detailed region-by-region analysis of the current state of the world economy and using exclusive research carried out by TS Lombard, Dumas shows how the perception of inequality now threatens to destabilize not only politics but also the economic order itself.

Author : Boris Holzer,Fatima Kastner,Tobias Werron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317680000

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From Globalization to World Society by Boris Holzer,Fatima Kastner,Tobias Werron Pdf

Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "the global," yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships. Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems analysis - instead have focused on particular domains such as politics or the economy. Under the label of "world society," however, some authors have suggested alternatives to the predominant equivocation of society and the nation-state. The contributions to this volume share that objective and take their point of departure from the two most ambitious projects of a theory of world society: world polity research and systems theory, mapping out the common ground and assessing their potential to inform empirical analyses of globalization.

Author : Adrian Pabst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509546824

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Postliberal Politics by Adrian Pabst Pdf

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – postliberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and human relationships. Instead of reverting to the destabilising inhumanity of 'just-in-time' free-market globalisation, we could build a politics upon the sense of localism and community spirit, the valuing of family, place and belonging, which was a real theme of lockdown. We are not obliged to put up with the restoration of a broken status quo that erodes trust, undermines institutions and trashes our precious natural environment. We could build a pluralist democracy, decentralise the state, and promote embedded, mutualist markets. This bold book shows that only a politics which fuses economic justice with social solidarity and ecological balance can overcome our deep divisions and save us from authoritarian backlash.​

Author : Kerry J Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811363863

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Civic and Citizenship Education in Volatile Times by Kerry J Kennedy Pdf

The book highlights current issues influencing civic and citizenship education and their theoretical underpinnings. It provides an overview of the key features influencing ‘democratic deconsolidation’ , suggests ways in which civic and citizenship education needs to be reframed in order to fit this new political environment, and demonstrates how social media will play a significant role in any future for civic and citizenship education. Currently, democratic institutions are under attack, democratic values are threatened, and there is a wide-scale retreat from the liberal consensus that has underpinned liberal democracies internationally. These trends can be seen in events like, Brexit, the election of a right-wing populist President of the United States and, anti-democratic governments in parts of Europe. It is this change in the direction of political ideology that is currently ‘deconsolidating democracy’ and thus challenging traditional approaches to civic and citizenship education. What is urgently needed is an understanding of these current trends and their implications for thinking in new ways about civic and citizenship education in the 21st century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932559924

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Contours of Descent by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Dumas
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788162265

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Populism and Economics by Charles Dumas Pdf

Populism and Economics, Charles Dumas' latest book, examines the reasons for the rise in populism - Brexit and the election of Trump among other events - and how this discontent with the status quo has affected economics, both perceptions and reality. The book argues that while globalization and the influence of new technology have pulled the world economy out of recession and while the benefits of world trade are now spread more widely, there is a perception of injustice because of inequality within individual nations. In a detailed region-by-region analysis of the current state of the world economy and using exclusive research carried out by TS Lombard, Dumas shows how the perception of inequality now threatens to destabilize not only politics but also the economic order itself.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Globalization
ISBN : UCSD:31822028769313

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Nationalism and Globalisation by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Author : Gordon Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857202871

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Beyond the Crash by Gordon Brown Pdf

Gordon Brown's book will offer insight into the events that led to the fiscal downward spiral and the reactions of world leaders as they took steps to avoid further disaster. The book will also offer measures Brown believes the world should adopt to regain fiscal stability. Long admired for his grasp of economic issues, Brown's book will be a work of paramount interest during these uncertain financial times and is sure to attract intense media coverage. The book offers a unique perspective on the financial crisis as well as innovative ideas that will help create a sound economic future and will help readers understand what really has happened to our economy. Mr Brown has this to say: 'We now live in a world of global trade, global financial flows, global movements of people and instant global communications. Our economies are connected as never before, and I believe that global economic problems require global solutions and global institutions. In writing my analysis of the financial crisis, I wanted to help explain how we got here, but more importantly to offer some recommendations as to how the next stage of globalisation can be managed so that the economy works for people and not the other way around'