1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006830690403321

Autore

Charles, David

Titolo

Technology transfer in Europe : public and private networks / David Charles and Jeremy Howells.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London and New York : Belhaven Press, 1992

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 208 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Studies in the information economy urban and regional development

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

VII A 531

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450795603321

Autore

Rupert Mark

Titolo

Ideologies of globalization : contending visions of a new world order / / Mark Rupert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-280-32969-6

0-203-17060-1

1-134-65825-7

0-203-13131-2

9786610329694

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages)

Collana

RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Disciplina

337

337.73

Soggetti

Free trade

Globalization

International economic relations

Moral and ethical aspects

Political aspects

United States

United States - Foreign economic relations

Free trade - Political aspects - United States

International economic relations - Moral and ethical aspects



International Commerce

Commerce

Business & Economics

Electronic books.

United States Foreign economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Ideologies of Globalization; Series editors; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series editors' preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; Social critique and democratizing projects; Toward transformative politics; Plan of the book; 2: Americanism, Fordism,and hegemony; Americanism and world order ideology; Capra's two worlds; Fordism and hegemony; The political ambiguities of Fordism in America; Restructuring capitalism;  contesting hegemony; 3: The hegemonic project of liberal globalization; Globalization in question?

The ideology of liberal globalization: displacing politics from the economyNAFTA and the politics of a depoliticized world economy; Round Two: GATT-WTO; 4: From liberal globalization to global democratization; (Re)politicizing the global economy: NAFTA; GATT; Democracy and the emerging critique of globalization; Globalization and the political economy of gender; Feminist activists challenge neoliberal globalization; Mainstream feminist organizations begin to catch on?; 5: Fear and loathing in the New World Order; Defending American exceptionalism: far-right critiques of globalization

The conspiratorial world-view: a far-right family resemblanceAmericanism in peril: NAFTA, GATT, and the New World Order; Mainstreaming far-right ideology?; Tensions and possibilities of post-Fordist common sense; 6: Competition or solidarity?; The ambiguities of populism cum conspiracism; Populist Inc.; Reading the new populism: The News Reporter; The decline and rise of Chuck Harder and the new populism; 7: The New World Order; Fear and loathing in reverse: the global power bloc and the new populism; The Asian crisis; Fast Track and stalemate in the US

Responses to the new populism: "globalization with a human face"Seattle and beyond; A New World Order: (r)evolutionary change?; Notes; 1: Introduction; 2: Americanism, Fordism, and hegemony; 3: The hegemonic project of liberal globalization; 4: From liberal globalization to global democratization; 5: Fear and loathing in the New World Order; 6: Competition or solidarity? The new populism and the ambiguities of common sense; 7: The New World Order: passive revolution or transformative process?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the key debates about globalization and provides a detailed and incisive analysis of the varied and often contradictory opposition to globalization within the United States.Subjects covered include:* the historical context of the development of globalization in the US in the post-war period* opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Trade & Tariffs (GATT) & the World Trade Organisation (WTO)* the nationalist response



to globalization from 'militia' groups and others on the extreme right* the populist backl