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Author: Robert O'Brien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-04-20
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521774406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich analysis of the increasingly important engagement between international institutions and global social movements.
Author: Gregory P. Williams
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1438479670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Contesting the Global Order explores what it means to be a radical intellectual as political hopes fade. Gregory P. Williams chronicles the evolution of intellectual visionaries Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein, who despite altered circumstances for radical change, continued to advance creative interpretations of the social world. Wallerstein and Anderson, whose hopes were invested in a more egalitarian future, believed their writings would contribute to socialism, which they anticipated would be a postcapitalist future of relative social, economic, and political equality. However, by the 1980s dreams of socialism had faded and they had to face the reality that socialism was neither close nor inevitable. Their sensitivity to current events, Williams argues, takes on new significance in this century, when many scholars are grappling with the issue of change in a world of declining state power.
Author: Joe Wills
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-13
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1316813282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do equality, dignity and rights mean in a world where eight men own as much wealth as half the world's population? Contesting World Order? Socioeconomic Rights and Global Justice Movements examines how global justice movements have engaged the language of socioeconomic rights to contest global institutional structures and rules responsible for contributing to the persistence of severe poverty. Drawing upon perspectives from critical international relations studies and the activities of global justice movements, this book evaluates the 'counter-hegemonic' potential of socioeconomic rights discourse and its capacity to contribute towards an alternative to the prevailing neo-liberal 'common sense' of global governance.
Author: Antje Wiener
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1107169526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the involvement of local actors in conflicts over global norms at the intersection between international relations and international law.
Author: James H. Mittelman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-02-25
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1136865063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a world level over the last half century. Including a framing introduction written for the volume, this book presents James H. Mittelman’s most influential essays. It offers cross-regional analysis, drawing on his fieldwork in nine countries in Africa and Asia. This research explores mechanisms by which prevailing knowledge about global order is implicated in its deep tensions: chiefly, the impetus for development and global governance embodies aspirations for attaining wellbeing and upholding human dignity; yet market- and state-driven globalization embraces basic ideas inscribed in power, thus increasing vulnerability and making the world more insecure. Rather than exalt one element in this quandary over another, Mittelman shows how different aspects of the relationship collide. Examining cases of specific localities, international organizations, and social movements, this grounded study unveils evolving structures that shape our times. It projects scenarios for future global order and how to make it work for the have-nots. Mittelman consistently forges a critical perspective throughout this collection. His reflections cut against conventions in international studies and, more generally, global order. This volume will be of great interest to all students and practitioners of development, global governance, and globalization.
Author: Rebecca Lissner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0300256140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo foreign policy experts chart a new American grand strategy to meet the greatest geopolitical challenges of the coming decade This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States’ global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19, but the product of forces that will endure for decades. Amidst political polarization, technological transformation, and major global power shifts, Lissner and Rapp-Hooper convincingly argue, only a grand strategy of openness can protect American security and prosperity despite diminished national strength. Disciplined and forward-looking, an openness strategy would counter authoritarian competitors by preventing the emergence of closed spheres of influence, maintaining access to the global commons, supporting democracies without promoting regime change, and preserving economic interdependence. The authors provide a roadmap for the next president, who must rebuild strength at home while preparing for novel forms of international competition. Lucid, trenchant, and practical, An Open World is an essential guide to the future of geopolitics.
Author: Alexander Anievas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0415478030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together internationally-distinguished interdisciplinary scholars to examine recent developments in Marxist approaches to world politics and to provide a general review of the key debates and issues.
Author: Philip W. Porter
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2009-08-08
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 1606232622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWidely regarded as the standard text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes contemporary approaches to economic development across the third world. Students gain a deeper understanding of the interacting dynamics of culture, gender, race, and class; biophysical factors, such as climate, population, and natural resources; and economic and political processesa "all of which have led to the present-day disparities between the first and third worlds. Numerous examples, sidebars, and figures illustrate how people in the global South are experiencing and contesting the forces of globalization. New to This Edition Updated to reflect a decade of economic, political, and social changes Extensively revised; more fully integrates postcolonial and feminist perspectives Broadens the prior edition's focus on Africa with examples from around the world A chapter on the promises and pitfalls of sustainable development.
Author: Nick Couldry
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780742523852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.
Author: Gavin Shatkin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-08-14
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1118295846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication
