Deglobalization : ideas for a new world economy /
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| Author / Creator: | Bello, Walden F. |
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| Edition: | New updated ed. |
| Imprint: | Dhaka : University Press ; London : Zed Books, 2004. |
| Description: | xxv, 132 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Global issues in a changing world Global issues series (Zed Books) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5636338 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements and Dedication
- Foreword: The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush
- The crisis of the globalist project
- Three moments of the crisis of globalization
- The new economics of George W. Bush
- The economics and politics of overextension
- 1. Introduction: The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism
- From triumph to crisis
- Multilateralism in disarray
- The crisis of the neoliberal order
- The corporation under question
- Cracks in military hegemony
- The degeneration of liberal democracy
- The spectre of global deflation
- The rise of the movement
- Contradictory trends after September 11
- 'Imperial overstretch'
- Liberal democracy loses
- Porto Alegre and the future
- 2. Marginalizing the South in the International System
- The rise of UNCTAD
- The Bretton Woods twins versus the UN Development system
- The southern challenge in the 1970s
- Right-wing reaction and the demonization of the south
- Resubordinating the south
- The World Trade Organization: third pillar of the system
- The Group of Seven: an international directorate?
- 3. Sidestepping Democracy at the Multilateral Agencies
- The World Bank
- The International Monetary Fund
- The World Trade Organization
- 4. The Crisis of Legitimacy
- The IMF's Stalingrad
- The past catches up
- Meltzer and the World Bank
- The WTO on the road to Seattle
- 5. The Vicissitudes of Reform, 1998-2002
- Reforming the global financial architecture
- From structural adjustment to poverty reduction?
- Non-democratic decision-making affirmed
- Decision-making at the WTO: From Seattle to Doha
- 6. Proposals for Global Governance Reform: A Critical Analysis
- An economic security council?
- The Meltzer Commission proposal
- The 'back-to-the-Bretton-Woods-system's school
- George Soros's alternative system
- 7. The Alternative: Deglobalization
- Deconstruction
- Deglobalizing in a pluralist world
- Selected Readings
- Selected Organizations Monitoring Multilateral Organizations and Global Governance Issues