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Confronting Globalization

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Hayden, Patrick; el-Ojeili, Chamsy

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598829

ISBN: 978-1-349-52305-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 6, 2015

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Globalization, Terrorism and Democracy: 9/11 and its Aftermath

Kellner, Douglas

Pages: 172 –188

[Globalization has been one of the most hotly contested phenomena of the past two decades.1 It has been a primary attractor of books, articles and heated debate, just as postmodernism was the most fashionable and debated topic of the 1980s. A wide and diverse range of social theorists have argued...
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‘Alter-Globalization’ and Social Movements: Towards Understanding Transnational Politicization

Weber, Martin

Pages: 191 –207

[Over the past decade or so, we have witnessed the ascendancy of new forms of transnational solidarization, politicization and developments of social consciousness, as well as the by now well established channels of engagement involving NGOs, national governments and international organizations....
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‘Horizontals’, ‘Verticals’ and the Conflicting Logics of Transformative Politics

Robinson, Andrew; Tormey, Simon

Pages: 208 –226

[Anyone who follows the politics of the Movement for Global Justice (MGJ) will be under no illusions as to the difficulty of the task that confronts it in terms of developing a politics that is effective as well as noisy. Within the movement (or, better, movement of movements) there are many...
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American Globalism ‘Madison Avenue-Style’: A Critique of US Public Diplomacy after 9/11

Steger, Manfred B.

Pages: 227 –241

[More than three years after al-Qaeda’s devastating attacks on the most recognized symbols of American power, it is easy to forget the worldwide outpouring of sympathy that followed on the heels of the strikes. Granted, some individuals may have revelled in the callous notion that the USA had...
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Global Justice, the World Trade Organization and Free Trade

Moellendorf, Darrel

Pages: 242 –257

[One important by-product of globalization, which is sometimes lost on critics, is that the increased association of persons around the global economy makes credible the claim that these persons have duties of justice to one another.1 I shall not fully defend that view here, as I have discussed...
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A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Self-Determination of Peoples

Archibugi, Daniele

Pages: 258 –274

[Over the last few years, the demand for the self-determination of peoples has once more acquired considerable force.1 In consolidated states no less than in states that are falling apart, more or less dominant political groups have appealed to self-determination to support their own political...

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