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Global Backlash. Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy.
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Broad, Robin
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Why should you read this book? And why did I write it amidst the avalanche of books for an against globalization?
The idea for this book grew in part from my frustration over the simplistic way in which opponents to current forms of economic clobalization were being portrayed in the mainstream media. My purpose is not to offer a book explicating the broader debate between the proponents and so-called oponents of globalization (although that is the subject of one part of my book). Similarly my aim is not to view the resistance through a more theoretical microscope. Both are valid aims, but both have been the subject of enough books. In part my intention is to provide a framework for thinking about the varios responses of the "citizen" or "global" backlash and for understanding the basis of some of the debates. As the reader will discover, parts of the backlash are trying to rewrite the rules of the global economy to strengthen protection sfor workers and the environment. Others are trying to "stop" or "roll back" aspects of economic globalization, isch as the global trade in water or the transboundary flow os speculative investment. As I will argue, that divide - between those who see the goal to be " reshaping" economic globalization or those who strive to "roll back" - is a key analytical distinction in the backlash. But within these two broad backlash groupings there are debates that I will highlight. The backlash to economic globalization may not be powerful enough yet to win all the time or to become the prevailing view. But, as a collectivity, its members are certainly too powerful simply to be relegated to the current media caricature. Nor is thw backlash going to disappear in the wake of the terrorism of 11 September 2001, as some pundist have suggested. The citizen backlash is no longer simply a "fringe" movement that governments, international institutions, and private corporations can ignore. It has provided the pressure to achieve some debt cancellational Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization on the defensive; so too with pharmaceutial, apparel, biotech, and other transnational firms. Take it from a vice president of Business for Social Responsibility, a U.S. - based group with more than 1,400 corporate members or affiliates ranging from Stonyfield Farm Yougurt to L.L. Bean, Wal-Mart, and General Motors: " The protests in the streets of Seattle were both an illustration of current opinion and a harbinger of things to come. The protesters, though derided by many in the U.S. media, got the clear attention of major U.S. corporations. There may be some immediate impact as well as long-term changes." So: Who are they and what in fact do they really want? |
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0-7425-1034-4
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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2002
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New Millennium Books In International Studies
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348
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United States of America
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Maryland
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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04/03/2015
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04/03/2015
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