Globalization and Governance: Essays on the Challenges for Small States

ISBN-13: 9780786419654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 236 str.

Ann Marie Bissessar

Opis

Despite the controversial nature of globalization, there is no doubt that the pace and intensity of global interactions has been multiplied exponentially over the last few decades. Criticism of globilization is generally arranged into three camps: political, economic, and cultural. Political critics point to the status of the small state and conclude either that it is in retreat, or that the state has reconstituted itself to confront the challenges posed by globalization, thereby transforming itself into a competition state. Economic critics hold that globalization is nothing new, that international transactions are in the logic of capitalism, and that the trade along the silk route goes back centuries. Cultural critics protest that globalization is taking us headlong into the homogenization of the world. Others warn of new fault lines that would lead to a clash of civilizations and international conflicts along those lines. Others lament that cultural globalization will end with the Americanization of the world. This collection of essays, like the debates themselves, is divided into three parts. The first section focuses on the political aspects of globalization. In one essa