Producing Globalisation Politics of Discourse and Institutions in Greece and Ireland

by Antoniades, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9780719078446
• ISBN10: 071907844X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

How can we study globalization in a way that transcends the material/ideational rift? How has globalization resonated and/or dominated in different national contexts? What role has been played by national political economies and domestic institutions in this process? Producing Globalisationattempts to scrutinize the nature of the interplay between globalization and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalization as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalization. Such an approach aims to bring human agency and its importance to the forefront of theory and practice in world politics and economics. The analysis is based on two case-studies, Greece and Ireland. By examining and comparing the discourses, policies and strategies of key, national institutional actors in these two countries,Producing Globalisationoffers new insights into the emergence of globalization as a hegemonic discourse, as well as into the theory of hegemonic discourse itself. Thus the author invites us to think differently both about the nature of globalization and the nature of the hegemonic within international political economy.

Author Biography

Andreas Antoniades is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Theory and agents	p. 7
Hegemonic discourse communication	p. 9
Greece and Ireland as social agents in the 1990s	p. 30
Institutional reproduction and social transformation: the hegemonic discourse of globalisation in action (1995-2001)	p. 63
Globalisation discourse in Greece	p. 66
Globalisation discourse in Ireland	p. 104
Conclusions	p. 143
Facets of globalisation discourse	p. 145
Explaining facets of the hegemonic: political economy, domestic institutions and beyond	p. 153
Epilogue	p. 163
References	p. 169
Index	p. 189
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