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Book SynopsisWith the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it show no sign of abating. The question has become what to do, and how to think, about those eight months.
Trade ReviewHistory will be forever haunted by the 20th century's last, longest, legalistic right-wing coup attempt against a popular president. Limited to sleazy sex, political and policy differences were downplayed. The important, splendid, controversial essays collected in Aftermath provide learned context for this defining, though bizarre moment in American history and culture. Everyone interested in the individual and the law, politics and the future will want to read this book. -- Blanche Wiesen Cook,author of Eleanor Roosevelt
The first serious collection of academic reflections about the scandal, the essays in Aftermath offer citizens, students, lawyers, and historians fresh insights about American law and liberalism, about culture wars and family values, and about the politics of scandal in the late twentieth century. -- Martha Minow,author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence
Table of ContentsIntroduction Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian1 A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers, and Beyond Saskia Sassen2 The 2008 World Financial Crisis and the Future of World Development Ha-Joon Chang3 Growth after the Crisis Dani Rodrik4 Structural Causes and Consequences of the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Felice Noelle Rodriguez5 Bridging the Gap: A New World Economic Order for Development? Manuel Montes and Vladimir Popov6 Chinese Political Economy and the International Economy: Linking Global, Regional, and Domestic Possibilities R. Bin Wong7 The Global Financial Crisis and Africa's "Immiserizing Wealth" Alexis Habiyaremye and Luc Soete8 Central and Eastern Europe: Shapes of Transformation, Crisis, and the Possible Futures Piotr Dutkiewicz and Grzegorz Gorzelak9 The Post-Soviet Recoil to Periphery Georgi Derluguian10 The Great Crisis and the Financial Sector: What We Might Have Learned James K. Galbraith Notes About the Contributors Index
