Description
Book SynopsisExplores the origins and the reciprocal influences of globalization and the recent economic crisis, and suggests what new ideological foundations and geographic regions will be ascendant.
Trade Review“In this book, a distinguished array of scholars assess recent changes in the structures and processes of capitalist globalization, and their effects on the states and peoples in Latin America and Asia. Their focus is on the diminishing power of the United States, and the rising power of others. The overwhelming conclusion of the theory and research presented here is that the best solutions for the present crisis of neoliberalism will lie in the search for alternative, post-neoliberal strategies and that these will probably take different forms in different places. The volume will provide plenty of food for thought for those in corporate boardrooms, seats of political power, and academe alike.”
—Leslie Sklair,London School of Economics
“Many books deal with the state of contemporary globalization. Most present globalization—for good or ill—as an inevitably determined condition. As the contributors to Globalization and Beyond demonstrate, however, there are alternatives—and agency is not dead. There are indeed many ways to be ‘globalized.’”
—Miguel Angel Centeno,Princeton University
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Hegemons, States, and Alternatives
Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Part I: Declining and Emerging Hegemons?
1 Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung?
Giovanni Arrighi and Lu Zhang
2 Regionalism as an Alternative to Globalization: The East Asian Case
Walden Bello
3 China and Mexico in the Global Economy: Comparative Development Models in an Era of Neoliberalism
Gary Gereffi
4 Restructuring Mexico, Realigning Dependency: Harnessing Mexican Labor Power in the NAFTA Era
James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise
Part II: Alternative Expressions of Global Power
5 Globalization, Trade, and Development: From Territorial to Social Cartographies, from Nation-State/Interstate to Transnational Explanations
William I. Robinson
6 Popular Power in a Neoliberal World: How Global Interdependence Can Foster Democratic Empowerment
Frances Fox Piven
7 Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study
Alejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar, and Alexandria Walton Radford
8 Breaking with Market Fundamentalism: Toward Domestic and Global Reform
Fred Block
9 The (De)Coloniality of Knowledge, Life, and Nature: The North American–Andean Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Movements, and Regional Alternatives
Catherine Walsh
10 From Crisis to Opportunity: Globalization’s Beyond
Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Contributors
Index
