Synopses & Reviews
This book brings together authors from eleven countries to analyze and reflect on what globalization means to them. Does it mean the same in Russia as it does in the U.S.? The same in China as in South Africa? This book provides a global dialogue on globalization and brings much-needed new perspectives on how to think about one of the most important processes of our time.
Synopsis
This book brings together authors from eleven countries to analyze and reflect on what globalization means to them. Does it mean the same in Russia as it does in the U.S.? The same in China as in South Africa? This book provides a global dialogue on globalization and brings much-needed new perspectives on how to think about one of the most important processes of our time.
About the Author
PAUL BOWLES is Professor of Economics and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. He is also affiliated with universities in Australia, China and Mexico. He has published in the areas of globalization, regionalism, development and the political economy of China's reforms.
HENRY VELTMEYER is Professor of International Development Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and St. Mary's University, Canada. Recent publications, coauthored with James Petras, include Unmasking Globalization, System in Crisis and Social Movements and State Power: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador.
SCARLETT CORNELISSEN is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She has published on aspects related to cities as major emergent actors in the international economy, global tourism and the political economy of sport mega-events.
NOELA INVERNIZZI is Professor at the Development Studies Program, University of Zacatecas, Mexico. She is author of Flexible and Disciplined: Brazilian Workers after Industrial Restructuring, and she is co-editor with G. Foladori of Disruptive Nanotechnologies.
KWONG-LEUNG TANG is Chair and Professor of Social Work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of, inter alia, Social Welfare Development in East Asia, and editor of Social Development in Asia.
Table of Contents
Introduction--P.Bowles & H.Veltmeyer * Financialization and Barbarism: A Perspective from Brazil; F.de Oliveira & L.M.Paulini * Subordinate Economic Integration Through the Labour-Export Model: A Mexican Perspective--J.Cypher & R.Delgado Wise * From the Sino-West to Globalization: A Perspective from China--Y.Keping * Deflationary Neoliberalism: A Perspective from India--U.Patnaik * Neoliberalism and Predatory Capitalism: An Indonesian Perspective--V.Hadiz * The Struggle for Resource Control in a Petro-State: A Perspective from Nigeria--C.Obi * Global Competitive Challenges and the Paradoxes of a Balancing State: A Perspective from South Africa--M.Qobo * The Challenge of National Civic Integration: A Russian Perspective--A.Glinchikova * Japanization, Asianization of the West and Creolization: A Perspective from Japan--H.Befu * Economic Liberalism and the 'Outward Alliance' of Big Companies, Finance and the State: A Perspective from the UK--R.Wade * Globalization Means US Leadership: A Perspective from the United States--W.Tabb * A Two-Edged Sword: An Indigenous Nation Perspective--M.Stewart-Harawira * The Lexicon of Globalization: Comparative Conclusions--P.Bowles & H.Veltmeyer