Deglobalization : ideas for a new world economy /

Deglobalization : ideas for a new world economy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Bello, Walden F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2002.
Series:Global issues series (Zed Books)
Subjects:
International economic relations.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
Globalization > Economic aspects > Developing countries.
International agencies.
International agencies > Developing countries.
Developing countries.
Developing countries > Foreign economic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements and Dedication
  • 1. Introduction: The Multiple Crises of Global Capitalism
  • From triumph to crisis
  • Multilateralism in disarray
  • The crisis of the neoliberal order
  • The corporation under question
  • Cracks in military hegemony
  • The degeneration of liberal democracy
  • The spectre of global deflation
  • The rise of the movement
  • Contradictory trends after September 11
  • 'Imperial overstretch'
  • Liberal democracy loses
  • Porto Alegre and the future
  • 2. Marginalizing the South in the International System
  • The rise of UNCTAD
  • The Bretton Woods twins versus the UN Development system
  • The southern challenge in the 1970s
  • Right-wing reaction and the demonization of the south
  • Resubordinating the south
  • The World Trade Organization: third pillar of the system
  • The Group of Seven: an international directorate?
  • 3. Sidestepping Democracy at the Multilateral Agencies
  • The World Bank
  • The International Monetary Fund
  • The World Trade Organization
  • 4. The Crisis of Legitimacy
  • The IMF's Stalingrad
  • The past catches up
  • Meltzer and the World Bank
  • The WTO on the road to Seattle
  • 5. The Vicissitudes of Reform, 1998-2002
  • Reforming the global financial architecture
  • From structural adjustment to poverty reduction?
  • Non-democratic decision-making affirmed
  • Decision-making at the WTO: From Seattle to Doha
  • 6. Proposals for Global Governance Reform: A Critical Analysis
  • An economic security council?
  • The Meltzer Commission proposal
  • The 'back-to-the-Bretton-Woods-system' school
  • George Soros's alternative system
  • 7. The Alternative: Deglobalization
  • Deconstruction
  • Deglobalizing in a pluralist world
  • Selected Readings
  • Selected Organizations Monitoring Multilateral Organizations and Global Governance Issues
  • Index

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