Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and Its' Alternatives

by Shefner, Jon; Fernandez-kelly, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780271048857
• ISBN10: 0271048859
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

If ever there was a tangible demonstration of the desire of people worldwide for a new world order, it was the enormous turnout in Washington, DC, for the presidential inauguration and the rejoicing throughout the world at this signal of change in the offing. The neoliberal project was dealt a critical blow in the waning months of the Bush administration by the crushing tide of recession sweeping the globe. But already for some years now the hegemony of the U.S. and the international institutions it has used to maintain its economic dominance has been in decline, suggesting the need to explore alternative ways to carry out globalization's imperatives. In Globalization and Beyond some of the leading scholars take up the challenge of examining the current state of economic crisis and the variety of ways that different countries as well as different groups are responding to it.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Hegemons, States, and Alternatives	p. 1
Declining and Emerging Hegemons?
Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung?	p. 25
Regionalism as an Alternative to Globalization: The East Asian Case	p. 58
China and Mexico in the Global Economy: Comparative Development Models in an Era of Neoliberalism	p. 70
Restructuring Mexico, Realigning Dependency: Harnessing Mexican Labor Power in the NAFTA Era	p. 90
Alternative Expressions of Global Power
Globalization, Trade, and Development: From Territorial to Social Cartographies, from Nation-State/Interstate to Transnational Explanations	p. 123
Popular Power in a Neoliberal World: How Global Interdependence Can Foster Democratic Empowerment	p. 152
Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study	p. 173
Breaking with Market Fundamentalism: Toward Domestic and Global Reform	p. 210
The (De)Coloniality of Knowledge, Life, and Nature: The North American-Andean Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Movements, and Regional Alternatives	p. 228
From Crisis to Opportunity: Globalization's Beyond	p. 249
List of Contributors	p. 269
Index	p. 275
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