| Global Governance In Question: Empire, Class And The New Common Sense In Managing North-South Relations Contributor(s): Soederberg, Susanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745320694 ISBN-13: 9780745320694 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: "Global governance is the latest buzzword. Now comes a study that brings clarity and critical analysis to this ill-defined topic." William I. Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara "[An] acute and revealing examination of the economic difficulties facing the American empire." Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz "Indispensable for students of international polical economy and a must for political activists." Professor Elmar Altvater, Department of Political Science, Free University, Berlin Like many buzzwords, 'global governance' is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of contemporary capitalism -- presenting a critical insight into its real nature and the interests that it serves. This book begins by asking what has not been discussed in the mainstream debates and why. Drawing on a Marxist perspective, Soederberg explores neglected issues including transnational debt and the increasingly coercive nature of US aid to so-called OEfailed states'. Soederberg argues that mainstream understandings fail to engage with the wider contradictions that characterise global capitalism. In consequence, there is no explanation of the changing nature of American empire and capitalist power in the world. Furthermore, Soederberg argues that global governance acts to normalise and legitimise increasingly austere forms of capitalist expansion, which may be regarded as a deepening and broadening of neoliberalism. Susanne Soederberg is a Canada Research Chair in Global Political Economy and Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She is author of The Politics of the New International Financial Architecture: Reimposing Neoliberal Domination in the Global South (Zed, 2005). |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Geopolitics |
| Dewey: 337 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.32" W x 8.44" (0.59 lbs) 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 'Global governance is the latest buzzword. Now comes a study that brings clarity and critical analysis to this ill-defined topic.' ' An] acute and revealing examination of the economic difficulties facing the American empire.' 'Indispensable for students of international political economy and a must for political activists.' Professor Elmar Altvater, Department of Political Science, Free University, Berlin 'Soederberg breaks new ground in disclosing the cumulative processes by which empire is represented and managed.' Like many buzzwords, 'global governance' is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of contemporary capitalism -- presenting a critical insight into its real nature and the interests that it serves. This book begins by asking what has not been discussed in the mainstream debates and why. Drawing on a Marxist perspective, Soederberg explores neglected issues including transnational debt and the increasingly coercive nature of US aid to so-called 'failed states'. Soederberg argues that mainstream understandings fail to engage with the wider contradictions that characterise global capitalism. In consequence, there is no explanation of the changing nature of American empire and capitalist power in the world. Furthermore, Soederberg argues that global governance acts to normalise and legitimise increasingly austere forms of capitalist expansion, which may be regarded as a deepening and broadening of neoliberalism. |
