Governing under Stress Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization

by Clarkson, Stephen; Cohen, Marjorie Griffin

• ISBN13: 9781842773024
• ISBN10: 184277302X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-13
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project to explore the political economy of governance under conditions of globalization in Canada, Mexico, Norway and Australia. The essays throw a new light on globalization by examining it from the perspective of these nations on the "semi-periphery." Opening chapters examine the international institutions, including NAFTA, the WTO and the EU. In the second Part, contributors detail the constraints these countries face and the possibilities for their continuing to pursue policies unique to the needs and democratically defined goals of each country. And in the concluding Part, they discuss the new economic, political and social issues that arise as the shape of governance changes.

Author Biography

Stephen Clarkson is in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

Marjorie Griffin Cohen is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface
Gordon Laxer	x
1 Introduction: States under Siege
Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Stephen Clarkson	1	(11)
2 Globalization and the Social Question
Janine Brodie	12	(21)
PART I Semi-peripheral Countries: Norway, Mexico, Australia, Canada
3 Globalization in Norwegian: Peculiarities at the European Fringe
Øyvind Østerud	33	(18)
4 Norway, the EEA, and Neo-liberal Globalism
Dag Harald Claes and John Erik Fossum	51	(19)
5 The Rise and Fall of an 'Organized Fantasy': The Negotiation of Status as Periphery and Semi-periphery by Mexico and Latin America
Teresa Gutiérrez-Haces	70	(20)
6 Mexico: Relocating the State within a New Global Regime
Alejandro Alvarez	90	(20)
7 Australia: Asian Outpost or Big-time Financial Dealer?
Dick Bryan	110	(22)
8 Australia: Neo-liberal Globalism and the Local State
Ray Broomhill	132	(21)
9 Global Governance and the Semi-peripheral State: The WTO and NAFTA as Canada's External Constitution
Stephen Clarkson	153	(22)
10 International Forces Driving Electricity Deregulation in the Semi-periphery: The Case of Canada
Marjorie Griffin Cohen	175	(22)
PART II Dealing with the Centre
11 Money on the (Continental) Margins: Dollarization Pressures in Canada and Mexico
Paul Bowles	197	(21)
12 Taking Investments Too Far: Expropriations in the Semi-periphery
David Schneiderman	218	(21)
13 The Rule of Rules: International Agreements and the Semi-periphery
Stephen McBride and John Erik Fossum	239	(24)
PART III Comparing Economic Performance
14 Zonal Structure and the Trajectories of Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Norway under Neo-liberal Globalization
Satoshi Ikeda	263	(28)
About the Contributors	291	(4)
Index	295