Resisting Economic Globalization

Author : D. Schneiderman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781137004062

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Resisting Economic Globalization by D. Schneiderman Pdf

There is at present much disenchantment with the rules governing international investment. Conceived as a set of disciplines establishing thresholds of tolerable state behaviour, dissatisfaction has precipitated acts of resistance in various parts of the world. Resisting Economic Globalization explores the magnitude of the legal constraints imposed by these rules and institutions associated with the worldwide spread of neoliberalism. Much contemporary theorizing has given up on national states as a locus for countering the harmful effects of economic globalization. Though states provide critical supports to the construction and ongoing maintenance of transnational legal constraints, David Schneiderman argues that states remain crucial sites for resisting, even rolling back, investment law disciplines. Structured as a series of encounters with selected critical theorists, the book contrasts theoretical diagnoses with recent episodes of resistance impeding investment law edicts. This novel approach tests contemporary hypotheses offered by leading political and legal theorists about the nature of power and the role of states and social movements in facilitating and undoing neoliberalism's legal edifices. As a consequence, the foundations of transnational legality become more apparent and the mechanisms for change more transparent.

Author : James H. Mittelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400823697

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The Globalization Syndrome by James H. Mittelman Pdf

Here James Mittelman explains the systemic dynamics and myriad consequences of globalization, focusing on the interplay between globalizing market forces, in some instances guided by the state, and the needs of society. Mittelman finds that globalization is hardly a unified phenomenon but rather a syndrome of processes and activities: a set of ideas and a policy framework. More specifically, globalization is propelled by a changing division of labor and power, manifested in a new regionalism, and challenged by fledgling resistance movements. The author argues that a more complete understanding of globalization requires an appreciation of its cultural dimensions. From this perspective, he considers the voices of those affected by this trend, including those who resist it and particularly those who are hurt by it. The Globalization Syndrome is among the first books to present a holistic and multilevel analysis of globalization, connecting the economic to the political and cultural, joining agents and multiple structures, and interrelating different local, regional, and global arenas. Mittelman's findings are drawn mainly from the non-Western worlds. He provides a cross-regional analysis of Eastern Asia, an epicenter of globalization, and Southern Africa, a key node in the most marginalized continent. The evidence shows that while offering many benefits to some, globalization has become an uneasy correlation of deep tensions, giving rise to a range of alternative scenarios.

Author : Jackie Smith,Hank Johnston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461636939

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Globalization and Resistance by Jackie Smith,Hank Johnston Pdf

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the 'battle of Seattle.' The volume illuminates the reciprocal effects between globalization processes and social movements.

Author : Jeremy Brecher,Tim Costello,Brendan Smith
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896086224

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Globalization from Below by Jeremy Brecher,Tim Costello,Brendan Smith Pdf

Brecher, Costello, and Smith chart out a dynamic and innovative strategy for building the movement to challenge unchecked coporate globalization.

Author : B. Gills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230519176

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Globalization and the Politics of Resistance by B. Gills Pdf

The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance. This book establishes the centrality of 'the political' in our understanding of globalization and explores the new 'strategies of resistance' emerging on local, national, regional and global scales. Its impressively wide-ranging set of contributors engage in re-thinking what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy, focusing on popular responses to neoliberal globalization and the rearticulation of society, politics and the state.

Author : Timothy A. Wise,Hilda Salazar,Laura Carlsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Free trade
ISBN : UOM:39076002300023

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Confronting Globalization by Timothy A. Wise,Hilda Salazar,Laura Carlsen Pdf

* Illustrates how Mexican communities cope with NAFTA’s effects * Written by a team of US and Mexican collaborators * Shows importance of trade regulations on poor communities worldwide How is the current model for economic globalization affecting both the poor and the environment? Confronting Globalization extends a sweeping treatment of contemporary Mexican politics as they investigate the country’s tumultuous experience under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The contributors relate globalization’s untold stories: its social and environmental costs, and the grassroots quest for alternative paths. They reveal to us how vulnerable people in rural communities are choosing to defend themselves and promote their own homegrown alternatives in the face of adversity.

Author : Martin Hart-Landsberg
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583673522

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Capitalist Globalization by Martin Hart-Landsberg Pdf

A critical assessment argues that capitalists used exploited the world via globalization. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.

Author : Roland Robertson,Kathleen E. White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0415302226

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Globalization by Roland Robertson,Kathleen E. White Pdf

Author : Walden F. Bello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106016889427

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The Future in the Balance by Walden F. Bello Pdf

Professor Walden Bello looks at the many issues facing the Third World from the effects of globalization and the recolonization perpetrated by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 25 essays offer sharp analysis of the current problems in economics, land reform, agriculture, and basic human freedoms. Bello paints a clear picture of the problems of globalization, and the resistance that continues to grow.

Author : Janet Laible,Henri J. Barkey
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780762313648

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European Responses to Globalization by Janet Laible,Henri J. Barkey Pdf

Explores the institutional, economic and ideational factors that shaped the way in which Europe adapted to, resisted, and responded to the challenges of globalization. This book reveals 3 main strategies adopted by European political actors in their response: resistance, adaptation, and the production of alternatives to global norms and practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anti-globalization movement
ISBN : LCCN:2005282753

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Paradigm Wars by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dipak Basu,Victoria Miroshnik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030798956

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The Economic and Political Dangers of Globalization by Dipak Basu,Victoria Miroshnik Pdf

This book explores the economic and political impact of US aggression and the rise of China. Charting the impact of globalization from the Greek and Roman Empires onwards, the contemporary challenges posed by globalization is analysed in relation to both multinational companies and Wall Street banks. The influence of the World Trade Organization is investigated, with a particular focus on how it has created a Washington consensus throughout the world. This book aims to provide a non-Western perspective on global capitalism and the dangers it creates. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in political economy, economic history, and development economics.

Author : David Schneiderman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139470094

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Constitutionalizing Economic Globalization by David Schneiderman Pdf

Are foreign investors the privileged citizens of a new constitutional order that guarantees rates of return on investment interests? Schneiderman explores the linkages between a new investment rules regime and state constitutions – between a constitution-like regime for the protection of foreign investment and the constitutional projects of national states. The investment rules regime, as in classical accounts of constitutionalism, considers democratically authorized state action as inherently suspect. Despite the myriad purposes served by constitutionalism, the investment rules regime aims solely to enforce limits, both inside and outside of national constitutional systems, beyond which citizen-driven politics will be disabled. Drawing on contemporary and historical case studies, the author argues that any transnational regime should encourage innovation, experimentation, and the capacity to imagine alternative futures for managing the relationship between politics and markets. These objectives have been best accomplished via democratic institutions operating at national, sub-national, and local levels.

Author : Louise Amoore
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415335841

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The Global Resistance Reader by Louise Amoore Pdf

The Global Resistance Reader provides the first comprehensive account of the phenomenal rise of transnational social movements which have opposed the financial, economic and political hegemony of large international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The conceptual debates, substantive themes and case studies have been selected to open up the idea of global resistance to interrogation and discussion by students and to provide a one-stop source for researchers, journalists, policymakers and activists.

Author : Jeremy Brecher,John Brown Childs,Jill Cutler
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : 0896084604

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Global Visions by Jeremy Brecher,John Brown Childs,Jill Cutler Pdf

We live in an era of globalization in which pollution, satellite broadcasts, adn products from the "global factory" stream across national borders. Today's globalization is mostly "globalization-from-above" - an effort to expand the wealth and power of the wealthy and powerful. In Global Vision scholars and activists from more then twenty countries in all parts of the globe explore a startling alternative: "globalization-form-below".