This new book brings together a diverse range of scholars, representing a range of political views, to investigate how global "standards of market civilization" have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact. As the modern state system has evolved such standards have also developed, incorporating the capacity for social cooperation and self-government to which states must conform in order to fully participate as legitimate members in international society. This study analyses their justification, and their political, economic and social impact. Civilization is a term widely used within modern political discourse its meaning, yet it is poorly understood and misused. * Part I explores the idea of a standard of civilization, its implications for governance, and the use of such standards in political theory and economic thought, as well as its historical application. * Part II presents original case studies that demonstrate the emergence of such standardsand explore the diffusion of liberal capitalist ideas through the global political economy and the consequences for development and governance; the International Monetary Funds capacity to formulate a global standard of civilization in its reform programs; and problems in the development of the global trade, including the issue of intellectual property rights. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars in wide range of fields relating to the study of globalization including: international political economy; international political theory; international relations theory; comparative political economy; international law; historical sociology; and economic history.

Notes on Contributors

xi

Series Preface

xiii

Acknowledgements

xv

List of Abbreviations

xvi

Introduction

1

(2)

1 Civilizing markets through global standards

3

(14)

BRETT BOWDEN AND LEONARD SEABROOKE

Civilization, the civilizing ideal, and standards of civilization

5

(5)

Structure of the book

10

(5)

Concluding remarks

15

(2)

PART I Conceptual history

17

(76)

2 Civilization, standards, and markets

19

(15)

BRETT BOWDEN

The ideal of civilization

19

(6)

Standards of civilization

25

(3)

Markets as civilizers

28

(6)

3 Civilizing peoples through state citizenship and democracy

34

(11)

BARRY HINDESS

Citizenship in the system of states

35

(2)

Liberalism as a governmental project

37

(3)

A standard of citizenship and democracy

40

(5)

4 Civilizing market standards and the moral self

45

(15)

MATTHEW WATSON

Smith on the individual within market society

47

(4)

The impartial spectator and the condition of market society

51

(3)

Embedding standards of market civilization: the stoic tradition versus the World Bank

54

(4)

Conclusion

58

(2)

5 Civilizing the global economy: racism and the continuity of Anglo-Saxon imperialism

60

(17)

JOHN M. HOBSON

The racist origins of the imperial market standard of civilization. 1700-1850

60

(6)

The British civilizing mission: disciplining and punishing the East

66

(3)

The American civilizing mission: disciplining and punishing the East

69

(7)

Conclusion

76

(1)

6 Civilizing the bad: ethical problems with neo-liberal approaches to corruption

77

(18)

MLADA BUKOVANSKY

Corruption is now bad

79

(3)

Economic and institutional rationales in anti-corruption discourse

82

(4)

Clarifying the moral and political dimensions of anti-corruption discourse

86

(5)

Conclusion

91

(2)

PART II Contemporary cases

93

(124)

7 Civilizing techniques: Transparency International and the spread of anti-corruption

95

(12)

PETER LARMOUR

Transparency International

95

(2)

Civilization and civilizing projects

97

(2)

Institutional isomorphism

99

(3)

Coercion

102

(1)

Mimesis

103

(1)

Professionalization

104

(1)

Evaluation

105

(1)

Conclusions: TI and the spread of civilization.

105

(2)

8 Civilizing international monetary systems

107

(12)

MICHAEL J. OLIVER

The Gold Standard and the interwar years

108

(3)

The Bretton Woods years

111

(3)

Conflict and co-operation, 1973-89

114

(3)

The contemporary global standard in monetary affairs

117

(1)

Conclusions

117

(2)

9 Civilizing labor markets: the World Bank in Central Asia

119

(15)

ANDRÉ BROOME

The post-Soviet context in Central Asia

121

(1)

The World Bank and labor systems

122

(4)

Central Asian responses to the World Bank's reforms and the limits of institutional isomorphism

126

(6)

Conclusion

132

(2)

10 Civilizing through transparency: the International Monetary Fund

134

(12)

JACQUELINE BEST

Civilizing globalization

136

(2)

A return to standards of civilization?

138

(6)

Conclusion

144

(2)

11 Civilizing global capital markets: room to groove?

146

(15)

LEONARD SEABROOKE

Civilizing ideas in capital markets: a historical sketch

147

(2)

Civilizing ideas in the international rentier economy

149

(4)

Civilizing ideas in the international creditor economy

153

(6)

Conclusion

159

(2)

12 Civilizing tax havens: the OECD and the harmful tax practices initiative

161

(14)

GEMMA KYLE

Civilizing international tax competition

162

(3)

Contestation and resistance

165

(8)

Conclusion

173

(2)

13 Civilizing drugs: intellectual property rights in global pharmaceutical markets

175

(13)

JILLIAN CLARE COHEN

The GATT and its provisions to protect health of populations

177

(2)

The TRIPS Agreement: tripping over the disconnect between trade and health objectives

179

(3)

The policy watershed: the Doha Accord

182

(2)

WTO dispute settlement and access to essential medicines

184

(2)

Conclusions

186

(2)

14 Civilizing global trade: alterglobalizers and the 'Double Movement'

188

(19)

GEOFFREY A. PIGMAN

Trade and civilization: transformations

188

(4)

Free trade and empire: mission civilisatrice

192

(4)

Alterglobalization: another world is possible

196

(7)

Conclusions

203

(2)

Conclusion

205

(2)

15 Civilizing global market standards: double-edged discourses and their policy implications

207

(10)

LEONARD SEABROOKE AND BRETT BOWDEN

Conceptual reprise

209

(2)

Five themes recapped

211

(3)

Policy implications and future research

214

(1)

In conclusion

215

(2)

Bibliography

217

(22)

Index

239

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