Challenges of Globalization: New Trends in International Politics and Society

by Lerch,Marika

• ISBN13: 9780765802736
• ISBN10: 0765802732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Globalization has been the buzzword” in international political and academic discourse since the 1990s. If globalization’s dynamics are to be fully understood, a reasonable critique is to be formulated, and realistic political proposals to meet the challenges of globalization are to be developed, this complex phenomenon must be dissected. Challenges of Globalization brings together prominent authors of different national backgrounds. They look beyond the buzzword to provide a genuinely global” view of globalization. The editors’ introduction provides a roadmap” through the globalization debate and shows the connections between the different aspects covered in detail in the various contributions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(12)
Alfred Pfaller and Marika Lerch
Part 1: Globalization and Its Consequences
1. The Future of the State in an Era of Globalization	13	(14)
Bob Jessop
2. Islam and Globalization: Secularism, Religion, and Radicalism	27	(20)
Sean L. Yom
3. The New World of Privatized Violence	47	(16)
Stefan Mair
4. Die Neustrukturierung der Geschlechterverhaltnisse im entgrenzten Markt	63	(19)
Birgit Sauer
Part 2: Global Governance and Its Promises-the Political Dimension
5. Transcending or Defending the World of States? The United Nations and Its Members	82	(11)
Stephen Schlesinger
6. Containing Entropy, Rebuilding the State: Challenges to International Order in the Age of Globalization	93	(16)
Hanns W. Maull
7. Beyond Multilateralism: Global Public Policy Networks	109	(22)
Jan Martin Witte, Wolfgang H. Reinicke, and Thorsten Benner
Part 3: Global Governance and Its Promises-the Economic Dimension
8. A New Financial Architecture for Reducing Risks and Severity of Crises	131	(24)
Stephany Griffith-Jones
9. Wanted: An International Exchange Rate Regime. The Missed Lesson of the Financial Crisis	155	(18)
Heiner Flassbeck
10. World Trade Order and the Beginning of the Decline of the Washington Consensus	173	(10)
Howard M. Wachtel
11. Let Countries Go Bankrupt: The Case for Fair and Transparent Debt Arbitration	183	(18)
Kunibert Raffer
Part 4: Global Governance and the Environment
12. Globalization and Governance: Bleak Prospects for Sustainability	201	(16)
James N. Rosenau
13. Eco-Labelling in the Globalised Economy	217	(24)
Ralph Piotrowski and Stefan Kratz
Part 5: "Prosperity for All": National Strategies in the Era of Globalization
14. Social Democracy in the Globalized Post-industrial Society	241	(26)
Alfred Pfaller
Contributors	267