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Book Globalization and State Power

Download or read book Globalization and State Power written by Joel Krieger and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Introduction. Part I. Globalization and State Power: Competing Paradigms. Part Introduction. 1. Thomas L. Friedman, "The New System," The Lexus and the Olive Tree. 2. Samuel P. Huntington, "The New Era in World Politics", The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order. 3. Joseph P. Stiglitz, "Broken Promises," Globalization and Its Discontents. 4. John J. Mearsheimer, "Anarchy and the Struggle for Power," The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. 5. Saskia Sassen, "Global Cities and Survival Circuits," Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russsell Hochschild, eds. Global Woman. Part II. From Autonomy to Multi-level Governance. Part Introduction. 6. Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty and Its Discontents," Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy. 7. David Held, "Political Globalization, Global Covenant. 8. Paul Carmichael, "Briefing Paper: Multi-level Governance." Part III. State Power in the Era of Globalization: Case Studies. Part Introduction. Globalization and the Exercise of American Power. 9. G. John Ikenberry, "Liberal hegemony and the future of the American postwar order," from T.V. Paul and John A. Hall, eds. International Order and the Future of World Politics. 10. Robert Hunter Wade, America's Empire Rules an Unbalanced World. 11. Joseph P. Nye, "Redefining the National Interest," The Paradox of American Power. 12. Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, America Unbound: The Bush Reveoplution in Foreign Policy. Globalization and European Integration. 13. George Ross, "European Integration and Globalization". 14. David P. Calleo, "Europe in the New World Order". 15. Kalypso Nicolaïdis, "We, the Peoples of Europe ...," Foreign Affairs. East Asia: the Paradox of State Power. 16. T.J. Pempel, "Introduction," T.J. Pempel, ed. The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis. 17. Linda Weiss, "State Power and the Asian Crisis," New Political Economy. 18. Claude Smadja, "The End of Complacency," Foreign Policy. Part IV. Post-9/11: Terror, War and Empire. Part Introduction. Globalization, Terror and the Use of Force. 19. Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism," International Security. 20. The National Security Strategy of the United States of America. 21. John Lewis Gaddis, "A Grand Strategy of Transformation," Foreign Policy. 22. Chris Brown, "Self-Defense in an Imperfect World, "Ethics & International Affairs. 23. International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, "The Responsibility to Protect: The Way Forward," The Responsibility To Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. Globalization, Empire, and America's Geopolitical Strategy. 24. Niall Ferguson, "The Empire Slinks Back," The New York Times Magazine. 25. Michael Ignatieff, "Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?), New York Times Magazine. 26. Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Domination or Leadership," The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership.

Book Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

Download or read book Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics written by Daniel Woodley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues to preside over a quasi-imperial system of power based on global military preponderance and financial statecraft, and remains reluctant to recognize the realities global economic convergence, the age of imperial state hegemony is giving way to a new international order characterized by capitalist sovereignty and competition between regional and transnational concentrations of economic power. This title seeks to interrogate the structure of world order by examining leading approaches to globalization and political economy in international relations and international political economy. Breaking with the classical school, Woodley argues that geopolitics should be understood as a transnational strategic practice employed by powerful state actors, which mirrors predatory corporate rivalry for control over global resources and markets, reproducing the structural conditions for corporate power through the transnational state form of capital. In a period of increasing geopolitical insecurity and economic instability this title provides an authoritative yet accessible commentary on debates on capitalism and globalization in the wake of the financial crisis. It is valuable resource for students and scholars seeking to develop a deeper understanding of the historical determinants of the changing dynamics of neoliberal capitalism and their implications for world order.

Book Globalization  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Globalization A Very Short Introduction written by Manfred B. Steger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect across continents. This is globalization. In the fifth edition of his bestselling Very Short Introduction Manfred B. Steger considers the major dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and ecological. He looks at its causes and effects, and engages with the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing. From climate change to the Ebola virus, Donald Trump to Twitter, trade wars to China's growing global profile, Steger explores today's unprecedented levels of planetary integration as well as the recent challenges posed by resurgent national populism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Book The Myth of the Powerless State

Download or read book The Myth of the Powerless State written by Linda Weiss and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom argues that the integration of the world economy is making national governments less powerful, but Linda Weiss disagrees. In an era when global society and the transnational market are trendy concepts, she suggests that state capacities for domestic transformative strategies provide a competitive advantage. Some of the most successful economies rely on state-informed and state-embedded institutions for governing the economy. In fact, she contends, the strength of external economic pressures is largely determined domestically, and the effect of such pressures varies with the strength of domestic institutions. Weiss analyzes the sources and varieties of state capacity for governing industrial transformation in contemporary cases: the unraveling of Sweden's distributive model of adjustment, the evolution of developmental states in Northeast Asia, and the parallel strengths of the German and Japanese systems of industrial coordination. Her comparative perspective allows her to show how different types of state capacity affect industrial vitality and domestic adjustment to global forces. As economic integration proceeds, she concludes, state capabilities will matter more rather than less in fostering social well-being and the creation of wealth.

Book Political Globalization

Download or read book Political Globalization written by Morten Ougaard and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Globalization

Download or read book Political Globalization written by Morten Ougaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morten Ougaard provides a new and distinct theoretical perspective to the analysis of the globalization of politics. The book analyzes global governance as the partial and uneven globalization of different aspects of statehood. It focuses on the institutional infrastructure, highlighting the role of the G7/OECD nexus in providing strategic leadership; discusses an emerging global function of societal persistence or public goods; governance and relations of power between social forces; and finally it discusses American hegemonic leadership in the light of the dual power/persistence perspective.

Book Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy

Download or read book Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy written by Ronald W. Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this work explores the role of corporations in using US foreign policies to advance the interests of transnational capital in a wide range of contexts, including: how US government policies have contributed to the globalization of production and finance the ways in which transnational corporations have influenced the US relationship with China, a crucial linkage in the new era of transnational accumulation how transnational corporate power has shaped capital-labour relations, humanitarian intervention, structural adjustment policies, low-intensity democracy and the G20 summits the "corporate centrism" of the Obama Administration, whose policies have been consistent with the growing power of transnational capital in US foreign policymaking the politics and consequences of the embedded relationship between various sectors of the transnational capitalist class, global institutions and the US state, including the limits and contradictions of this relationship during the ongoing capitalist crisis. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of both US foreign policy and international political economy.

Book Globalization and Beyond

Download or read book Globalization and Beyond written by Jon Shefner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the origins and the reciprocal influences of globalization and the recent economic crisis, and suggests what new ideological foundations and geographic regions will be ascendant"--Provided by publisher.

Book Power and Politics in Globalization

Download or read book Power and Politics in Globalization written by Howard H. Lentner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the conventional view that globalization embodies a new and inexorable process, this book analyzes the political foundations and choices involved in contemporary arrangements in the world. Rather than treating politics as contention for control over an unforeseeable future, the book explains the background by which the world has arrived at its present state. Thus, the author presents a view that emphasizes continuity with the past while still acknowledging what is new in the present. Invoking many examples throughout, the author bolsters the theoretical analysis in an extended case study of Malaysia.

Book Globalization  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book Globalization A Very Short Introduction written by Manfred Steger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short Introduction has been fully updated for a third edition, to include recent developments in global politics, the global economy, and environmental issues. Presenting globalization in accessible language as a multifaceted process encompassing global, regional, and local aspects of social life, Manfred B. Steger looks at its causes and effects, examines whether it is a new phenomenon, and explores the question of whether, ultimately, globalization is a good or a bad thing. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Book Islam  Authoritarianism  and Underdevelopment

Download or read book Islam Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment written by Ahmet T. Kuru and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Book The Nation State in Question

Download or read book The Nation State in Question written by T. V. Paul and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has globalization forever undermined the state as the mighty guarantor of public welfare and security? In the 1990s, the prevailing and even hopeful view was that it had. The euphoria did not last long. Today the "return of the state" is increasingly being discussed as a desirable reality. This book is the first to bring together a group of prominent scholars from comparative politics, international relations, and sociology to systematically reassess--through a historical lens that moves beyond the standard focus on the West--state-society relations and state power at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The contributors examine the sources and forms of state power in light of a range of welfare and security needs in order to tell us what states can do today. They assess the extent to which international social forces affect states, and the capacity of states to adapt in specific issue areas. Their striking conclusion is that states have continued to be pivotal in diverse areas such as nationalism, national security, multiculturalism, taxation, and industrial relations. Offering rich insights on the changing contours of state power, The Nation-State in Question will be of interest to social scientists, students, and policymakers alike. John Hall's introduction is followed by chapters by Peter Baldwin, John Campbell, Francesco Duina, Grzegorz Ekiert, Jeffrey Herbst, Christopher Hood, Anatoly Khazanov, Brendan O'Leary, T. V. Paul, Bernard Yack, Rudra Sil, and Minxin Pei. The conclusion is by John Ikenberry.

Book The Arab State and Neo liberal Globalization

Download or read book The Arab State and Neo liberal Globalization written by Laura Guazzone and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by leading academics offers an alternative approach to the study of today's Arab states by focusing on their participation in neo-liberal globalization rather than on authoritarianism or Islam.

Book Globalization and Nationalism

Download or read book Globalization and Nationalism written by Natalie Sabanadze and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. Acknowledges that nationalism does react against the rising globalization and represents a form of resistance against globalizing influences, but the Basque and Georgian cases prove that globalization and nationalism can be complementary rather than contradictory tendencies. Nationalists have often served as promoters of globalization, seeking out globalizing influences and engaging with global actors out of their very nationalist interests. In the case of both Georgia and the Basque Country, there is little evidence suggesting the existence of strong, politically organized nationalist opposition to globalization. Discusses why, on a broader scale, different forms of nationalism develop differing attitudes towards globalization and engage in different relationships.Conventional wisdom suggests that sub-state nationalism in the post-Cold War era is a product of globalization. Sabanadze?s work encourages a rethinking of this proposition. Through careful analysis of the Georgian and Basque cases, she shows that the principal dynamics have little, if anything, to do with globalization and much to do with the political context and historical framework of these cases. This book is a useful corrective to facile thinking about the relationship between the ?global? and the ?local? in the explanation of civil conflict. Neil MacFarlane, Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations and fellow at St. Anne?s College, Oxford University and chair of the Oxford Politics and International Relations Department.

Book Globalizations and Social Movements

Download or read book Globalizations and Social Movements written by John Guidry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-12-22 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores how globalization affects social movements in different countries /div

Book Global Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony G. McGrew
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-05-02
  • ISBN : 0745667813
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book Global Politics written by Anthony G. McGrew and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new text is derived from a highly successful Open University course of the same title. It takes as a dominant theme the contested issue of ‘globalization’ (the apparent intensification of global patterns of inter-dependence) and its implications for the autonomy of the modern nation-state. Following a conceptual introduction, which critically examines the theoretical debates framing the study of world politics, the work is structured around four key processes of globalization which the authors identify as being the central determinants of contemporary global politics. These key processes are: the global impact of great power relations; the globalizing tendencies of technological innovation; the existence of a global economy; and the globalizing force of modernity. Reflecting this structure the text is organized into four discrete sections. Each section explores, both theoretically and empirically, one of the four processes of globalization. Throughout, particular attention is paid both to a critical evaluation of these globalizing processes as well as to their consequences for the sovereignty and autonomy of the modern nation-state. Moreover, the authors combine a lucid treatment of theoretical debates with topical case-study material to produce a text which is extremely accessible to undergraduate students studying international relations and politics and to those readers with little prior knowledge of world affairs.

Book The Illicit Global Economy and State Power

Download or read book The Illicit Global Economy and State Power written by H. Richard Friman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit cross-border flows, such as the smuggling of drugs, are proliferating on a global scale. This volume explores the selective nature of the state's retreat, persistence and reassertion in relation to the illicit global economy.