The Endgame of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780415762441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str.

Neil Smith

Opis

'The Endgame of Globalization' argues that US actions since 9/11 represent the final stage in its century-long effort to complete the project of making US-led globalization a concrete reality across the world.

Spis treści

1. Geographies of Globalization 2. Globalism Before Globalization 3. A Global Monroe Doctrine: The first moment of US ambition 4. Globalism Redux: Bretton Woods, the UN and the second moment of US ambition 5. The Endgame of Globalization 6. After Iraq

O autorze

Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Director of CUNY's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of Uneven Development, The New Urban Frontier, and American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003.