Globalization or Empire?

by Pieterse,Jan Nederveen

• ISBN13: 9780415948494
• ISBN10: 0415948495
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-03-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Which trend is the most significant, globalization or empire? This book comes down on the side of globalization. Neoliberal globalization is still in motion and the particular form that empire now takes is grounded in neoliberal principles, which produces a novel cocktail of "neoliberal empire," a combination of threat and profit, war and business.Globalization or Empire?argues that "empire" is too narrow an angle for understanding American primacy, with empire as just one of the forms this takes. Thus the fundamental problems remain those of globalization, of which this book examines several.

Table of Contents

Introduction	v
Acknowledgments	ix
References	xi
Chapter 1 Neoliberal Globalization	1	(16)
Dixie Capitalism	2	(6)
The Cold War and Neoliberalism	8	(1)
The Washington Consensus	9	(8)
Chapter 2 Scenarios of Power	17	(14)
Unipolar Moment or Imperial Episode?	17	(4)
Another American Century?	21	(3)
Scenarios and Analyses	24	(7)
Chapter 3 Empire as Metaphor	31	(10)
Capitalism = Imperialism?	32	(9)
Chapter 4 Neoliberal Empire	41	(20)
The Empire of Liberty	42	(3)
Osmosis of Neoliberalism and Empire	45	(7)
Occupational Hazards in Iraq	52
Strategy Matters	45	(16)
Chapter 5 Global Inequality: Bringing Politics Back In	61	(24)
Global Inequality	62	(1)
Measuring Global Poverty	63	(3)
Examining Global Inequality	66	(3)
Conventional Wisdom for Beginners	69	(7)
Politics of Perplexity	76	(9)
Chapter 6 Conflict: Technologies of Work, War, and Politics	85	(22)
Technologies of Work and War	88	(3)
Technologies of Politics	91	(3)
Technology Matters, But	94	(2)
Asymmetric Conflict	96	(2)
New Politics of Containment	98	(4)
Containment or Engagement?	102	(5)
Chapter 7 Globalization North and South	107	(14)
Representations of Global Divide	110	(4)
Ethnic Politics?	114	(1)
Beyond Blowback	115	(1)
The Interplay of Modernities and Capitalisms	116	(5)
Chapter 8 Hyperpower Exceptionalism	121	(22)
American Exceptionalism	123	(8)
Globalization as Americanization?	131	(8)
Beyond American Exceptionalism?	139	(4)
Chapter 9 Capitalisms: Asian-European Dialogue after Enron	143	(18)
Varieties of Capitalism	144	(2)
Enron in Wonderland	146	(3)
Tipping Points	149	(3)
An Alternative Rapport	152	(4)
Eurasia	156	(2)
Coda	158	(3)
Notes	161	(16)
Bibliography	177	(14)
Index	191