Chapter 1 The Difference Globalization Makes Chapter 2 A Brief History of Globalization Chapter 3 New Forms of Global Power and Resistance Chapter 4 Gender, Class, and the Transnational Politics of Solidarity Chapter 5 Globalization, Imperialism, and Terror Chapter 6 Conclusion
Mark Rupert is professor of political science at Syracuse University. M. Scott Solomon is assistant professor of government and international affairs at the University of South Florida and research fellow at the University of South Florida Globalization Research Center.
This timely and engaging study provides a much-needed critical
theory of global politics. Rupert and Solomon place the politics of
globalization at the center of a wide-ranging analysis of
contemporary processes. Global productive integration, new labor
relations and patterns of inequalities, transnational migration,
the war on terrorism, and ideological struggles are redefining the
traditional field of international political economy. While the
authors emphasize the novel, contradictory, and open-ended nature
of global power relations and future possible worlds, they do not
lose sight of the continued relevance of inter-state politics. The
result is a refreshing look at globalization as a process of social
change being contested and reconstructed by forces from above and
from below. Brief yet satisfying, Globalization and International
Political Economy is well suited for students and scholars as well
as for a lay public concerned with understanding the contemporary
world.
*William I. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara;
author of Latin America and Global Capitalism*
Accessible to a much wider audience than most such analyses of
global political economy. While many approaches to the study of
international political economy see the expansion of free trade and
the global division of labor as necessary and inevitable
corollaries of the free market, this work places globalization in
the context of the wills of political actors. . . . Ultimately, it
is about politics and the political basis for the global economy.
Essential.
*CHOICE*
This is an excellent historical materialist introduction to
globalization, migration, the politics of terrorism, and
contemporary
antiglobalization movements. It will be useful for students no
matter what their political persuasion.
*Craig N. Murphy, historian, UN Development Programme*
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