Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415781961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

Ronald W. Cox

Opis

This book examines the manifestations of corporate power in US foreign policy and the global economy over the past thirty years, culminating in an assessment of the implications of greater concentrations of wealth and power for democracy, both in the US and abroad.

Spis treści

Introduction: Corporate Power and the Threat to Democracy Ronald W Cox  1. Corporate Finance and US Foreign Policy  Ronald W. Cox  2. Transnational Capital and the US-China Nexus Ronald W. Cox and Sylvan Lee  3. The International Labor Solidarity Center in the Global Economy Ronald W. Cox and G. Nelson Bass  4. The Corporate Centrism of the Obama Administration Daniel Skidmore-Hess  5. The Military-Industrial Complex in a Globalized Context David Gibbs  6. Financialization, Corporate Powers and South African Subimperialism Patrick Bond  7. The Political Economy of Low-Intensity Democracy William Aviles  8. Class Power, Neoliberalism and the G20 Summits Susanne Soederberg  Conclusion: What Now? Implications of the Long Turn to the Right Ronald W. Cox and Dan Skidmore-Hess

O autorze

Ronald W. Cox is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University,USA. He has written extensively in the areas of international political economy, US foreign policy, and the political economy of baseball.