Globalisation can be seen to provide the context for epoch-defining changes in social and economic forms of organisation. However, it has also changed the context for and the organisational forms of politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalisation dynamic.
Contents:
World development: globalization or imperialism / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. --
Aid and adjustment: policy reform and regression / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. --
Imperial counter-offensive: challenges and opportunities / James Petras. --
Denationalization of Mexico: the World Bank in action / John Saxe-Fernández and Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos. --
Restructuring Latin American labour and the World Bank / Henry Veltmeyer. --
Cuba and Venezuela in an era of globalization / George W. Schuyler. --
Asia's post-crisis regionalism: the state in, the US out / Paul Bowles. --
Reflections on power and globalization / Noam Chomsky. --
The antiglobalization movement: juggernaut or jalopy? / Adam David Morton. --
The antinomies of antiglobalization / Henry Veltmeyer.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing
Release
May 05, 2004
ISBN
0754634892
ISBN 13
9780754634898
Globalization and Antiglobalization: Dynamics of Change in the New World Order
Globalisation can be seen to provide the context for epoch-defining changes in social and economic forms of organisation. However, it has also changed the context for and the organisational forms of politics, unleashing forces in support of, and in opposition to, the globalisation dynamic.
Contents:
World development: globalization or imperialism / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. --
Aid and adjustment: policy reform and regression / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer. --
Imperial counter-offensive: challenges and opportunities / James Petras. --
Denationalization of Mexico: the World Bank in action / John Saxe-Fernández and Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos. --
Restructuring Latin American labour and the World Bank / Henry Veltmeyer. --
Cuba and Venezuela in an era of globalization / George W. Schuyler. --
Asia's post-crisis regionalism: the state in, the US out / Paul Bowles. --
Reflections on power and globalization / Noam Chomsky. --
The antiglobalization movement: juggernaut or jalopy? / Adam David Morton. --
The antinomies of antiglobalization / Henry Veltmeyer.