Law and Globalization from Below
Law and Globalization from Below

Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-09-08

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781139446143

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This book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are written by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research on the ground with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle of the anti-sweatshop movement for the protection of international labour rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world. These and other cases, the editors argue, signal the emergence of a subaltern cosmopolitan law and politics that calls for new social and legal theories capable of capturing the potential and tensions of counter-hegemonic globalization.

Globalization Under Hegemony
Globalization Under Hegemony

Author: Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Exploring globalization and development in a historical perspective, this book compares the trends in the 19th century with the developments in the 20th century. It also traces the evolution of the development state, condemns the gross accumulation of wealth in the developed countries, and argues for the establishment of a decentralized democracy.

Promoting Polyarchy
Promoting Polyarchy

Author: William I. Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-22

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780521566919

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Contoversial exposé of US policy towards democracy in the Third World.

The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony
The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony

Author: Lee Artz

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0791486338

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When commercial media practices are insinuated into local cultures, existing cultural and media practices are often displaced and social inequalities are exacerbated—sometimes with the consent of consumers, but frequently confronting organized proponents. The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony provides case studies from five continents—from government-promoted telecommunications programs and technologies in Canada and Britain, MTV Asia's call-in request lines, and the pan-Latin ideology of a Mexican television variety show, to Islamic pop radio in Turkey, commercial radio in Africa, a "Millionaire" game show in India, and Hollywood's muted influence on Korean cinema, among others. Each case offers new insight into the particulars of an expanding corporate hegemony and together they invite the conversation on media globalization to consider the dynamics of class conflict and negotiation as an analytical perspective having prescriptive potential.

Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy
Counter-Hegemony and Foreign Policy

Author: Randolph B. Persaud

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2001-03-29

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780791449202

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Argues that marginalized states and peoples are capable of initiating their own foreign policy agendas.

Hegemonic Globalisation
Hegemonic Globalisation

Author: Thanh Duong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1351763555

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This title was first published in 2002. This innovative work analyses how the United States has laid down the foundations for global power. It reassesses and re-evaluates the declinist-renewal argument and challenges conventional balance of power theories, demonstrating how the United States is attempting to ’hegemonically globalise’ the entire international system. To evaluate the success of hegemonic globalisation, the book analyses four major powers and regions - Russia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the European Union (EU), and Japan - and their historical, political, economic, cultural and geopolitical relations with the United States. Each study examines the tangible and intangible sources of their relationship, and the possible tensions and resistance towards United States hegemony therein. Providing much-needed insight and a fresh perspective, this book makes a worthwhile contribution to our understanding of contemporary international power.

The Local Politics of Global English
The Local Politics of Global English

Author: Selma K. Sonntag

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780739105986

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The status of English as a global language is deeply divisive and hotly contested. The Local Politics of Global English analyzes linguistic globalization in five countries that differ greatly in both their degree of global integration and their use of English. By drawing on the work of language scholars and the growing field of globalization studies, the author provides a revealing portrait of how politicians, activists, scholars and policy-makers in the United States, France, India, South Africa, and Nepal are debating the questions that plague local controversies over global English. Concepts of hegemony and resistance, elites and subalterns, and liberalization and democratization are incorporated into case studies that provide insight into the politics of linguistic globalization from above and from below. Of interest to students of politics and culture, as well as teachers and learners of language, The Local Politics of Global English is a detailed examination of a timely and controversial topic.

Hegemonic Transition
Hegemonic Transition

Author: Florian Böller

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-16

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3030745058

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This book offers an assessment of the ongoing transformation of hegemonic order and its domestic and international politics. The current international order is in crisis. Under the Trump administration, the USA has ceased to unequivocally support the institutions it helped to foster. China’s power surge, contestation by smaller states, and the West’s internal struggle with populism and economic discontent have undermined the liberal order from outside and from within. While the diagnosis of a crisis is hardly new, its sources, scope, and underlying politics are still up for debate. Our reading of hegemony diverges from a static concept, toward a focus on the dynamic politics of hegemonic ordering. This perspective includes the domestic support and demand for specific hegemonic goods, the contestation and backing by other actors within distinct layers of hegemonic orders, and the underlying bargaining between the hegemon and subordinate actors. The case studies in this book thus investigate hegemonic politics across regimes (e.g., trade and security), regions (e.g., Asia, Europe, and Global South), and actors (e.g., major powers and smaller states).

Hegemony and World Order
Hegemony and World Order

Author: Piotr Dutkiewicz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1000191451

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Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony – that is, legitimated rule by dominant power – have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes does it bring? This volume addresses these questions by assembling perspectives from various regions across the world, including Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, Russia and the USA. The contributions in this book span diverse theoretical perspectives from realism to postcolonialism, as well as multiple issue areas such as finance, the Internet, migration and warfare. By exploring the role of non-state actors, transnational networks, and norms, this collection covers various standpoints and moves beyond traditional concepts of state-based hierarches centred on material power. The result is a wealth of novel insights on today's changing dynamics of world politics. Hegemony and World Order is critical reading for policymakers and advanced students of International Relations, Global Governance, Development, and International Political Economy.

Neoliberal Hegemony
Neoliberal Hegemony

Author: Dieter Plehwe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1134190999

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Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical of it continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe. How can we make sense of this paradox? Who actually are "the neoliberals"? This is the first explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which systematically considers and analyzes the networks and organizations of around 1.000 self conscious neoliberal intellectuals organized in the Mont Pèlerin Society. This book challenges simplistic understandings of neoliberalism. It underlines the variety of neoliberal schools of thought, the various approaches of its proponents in the fight for hegemony in research and policy development, political and communication efforts, and the well funded, well coordinated, and highly effective new types of knowledge organizations generated by the neoliberal movement: partisan think tanks. It also closes an important gap in the growing literature on "private authority’’, presenting new perspectives on transnational civil society formation processes. This fascinating new book will be of great interest to students of international relations, political economy, globalization and politics.