Description
Over the past decade the Socialist Register has been widely recognised as providing the most distinctive investigations on the left today of the contradictions of globalisation, the internationalisation of the state, progressive competitiveness, the new imperialism and popular global mobilisations against it. Among the well known writers whose essays have built the Register's reputation for this are Robert Cox, Harry Magdoff, Andrew Glyn, Bob Sutcliffe, Immanuel Wallerstein, Stephen Gill, Leo Panitch, Manfred Beinefeld, Gregory Albo, Arthur MacEwan, Frances Fox-Piven, Jim Crotty, Gerald Epstein, Elmar Altvater, Doug Henwood, David Harvey, Hugo Radice, Ursula Huws, Constantine Tsoukalas, Wally Seccombe, David Coates, Joachim Hirsch, Boris Kagarlitsky, Colin Leys, Henry Bernstein, Beverly Silver, Giovanni Arrighi, Gerard Dumenil, Naomi Klein, Birgid Mahnkopf and Brigitte Young. This anthology provides: - The most searching analyses of the political, economic and cultural contradictions of globalisation available - essential reading for students in troubled times - The best set of readings on the role of states - and especially the American state - in making globalisation happen, and on the problems they now confront in trying to keep it going.
