The Endgame of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780415950121 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str.

Neil Smith

Opis

The Endgame of Globalization argues that US actions since 9/11 represent the final stage in the US's century-long effort to complete the project of making US-led globalization a concrete reality across the world. Smith structures the book through three historical moments: 1) the attempted creation of a global Monroe doctrine between 1898 and 1919; 2) the Roosevelt administration's creation of the Bretton Woods institutions - the World Bank, the IMF, and the U.N.; and 3) globalization - the US-led effort to establish a new global regime based on free trade, deregulation, and privatization. In conclusion, the book links what's been going on in the Middle East to this larger project. Consequently, the anti-globalization forces which received so much attention prior to 9/11 need to be seen in a new light, as their perspective is a fundamental component of the opposition to America's globalist endgame.

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.