Globalization and beyond : new examinations of global power and its alternatives

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Globalization and beyond : new examinations of global power and its alternatives

[edited by] Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011

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The enormous turnout in Washington, DC, for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration and the worldwide rejoicing at this signal of change offered a tangible demonstration of people's desire for a new world order. In the waning months of the Bush administration, crushing global recession dealt a critical blow to the neoliberal project. The hegemony of the United States and of the international institutions it has used to maintain its economic dominance has been in decline for some years now, suggesting the need to explore alternative ways to carry out globalization's imperatives. In Globalization and Beyond, leading scholars take up the challenge of examining the current state of economic crisis and the variety of ways in which different countries (as well as different groups) are responding to it.

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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Hegemons, States, and Alternatives Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Part I: Declining and Emerging Hegemons? 1 Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung? Giovanni Arrighi and Lu Zhang 2 Regionalism as an Alternative to Globalization: The East Asian Case Walden Bello 3 China and Mexico in the Global Economy: Comparative Development Models in an Era of Neoliberalism Gary Gereffi 4 Restructuring Mexico, Realigning Dependency: Harnessing Mexican Labor Power in the NAFTA Era James M. Cypher and Raul Delgado Wise Part II: Alternative Expressions of Global Power 5 Globalization, Trade, and Development: From Territorial to Social Cartographies, from Nation-State/Interstate to Transnational Explanations William I. Robinson 6 Popular Power in a Neoliberal World: How Global Interdependence Can Foster Democratic Empowerment Frances Fox Piven 7 Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study Alejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar, and Alexandria Walton Radford 8 Breaking with Market Fundamentalism: Toward Domestic and Global Reform Fred Block 9 The (De)Coloniality of Knowledge, Life, and Nature: The North American-Andean Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Movements, and Regional Alternatives Catherine Walsh 10 From Crisis to Opportunity: Globalization's Beyond Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Contributors Index

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