| Description |
xiv, 187 pages |
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RIPE series in global political economy |
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Routledge/RIPE series in global political economy |
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RIPE series in global political economy.
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Routledge/RIPE series in global political economy. RIPE series in global political economy
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- Social critique and democratizing projects 2 -- Toward transformative politics 10 -- Plan of the book 15 -- 2 Americanism, Fordism, and hegemony 19 -- Americanism and world order ideology 19 -- Fordism and hegemony 23 -- The political ambiguities of Fordism in America 28 -- Restructuring capitalism; contesting hegemony 31 -- 3 The hegemonic project of liberal globalization 42 -- Globalization in question? 43 -- The ideology of liberal globalization: displacing politics -- from the economy 49 -- 4 From liberal globalization to global democratization 65 -- (Re)politicizing the global economy: NAFTA 65 -- GATT 77 -- Democracy and the emerging critique of globalization 78 -- Globalization and the political economy of gender 85 -- 5 Fear and loathing in the New World Order 94 -- Defending American exceptionalism: far-right critiques of globalization 95 -- Mainstreaming far-right ideology? 110 -- Tensions and possibilities of post-Fordist common sense 117 -- 6 Competition or solidarity? The new populism and the ambiguities of common sense 119 -- The ambiguities of populism cum conspiracism 119 -- Populist Inc. 120 -- 7 The New World Order: passive revolution or transformative process? 132 -- Fear and loathing in reverse: the global power bloc and -- the new populism 132 -- Responses to the new populism: "globalization with a human face" 143 -- A New World Order: (r)evolutionary change? 153 |
| Summary |
This book examines the key debates about globalization and provides a detailed and incisive analysis of the varied and often contradictory opposition to globalization within the United States. Subjects covered include: the historical context of the development of globalization in the US in the post-war period.-- opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs (GATT) & the World Trade Organisation (WTO).-- the nationalist response to globalization from 'militia' groups and others on the extreme right.-- the populist backlash against globalization.-- recent moves by advocates of the free market to present 'globalization with a human face' [publisher] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Free trade -- United States.
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Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Globalization.
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International economic relations -- Political aspects.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign economic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140052
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| LC no. |
00038258 |
| ISBN |
0415189241 |
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041518925X (paperback) |
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