Contesting global order : development, global governance, and globalization / / James H. Mittelman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460238303321
• Autore: Mittelman James H.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-10507-1; 9786613105073; 1-136-86507-1; 0-203-83666-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.2
• Soggetti: Globalization; Economic development - Political aspects; International organization; Electronic books.
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Development -- The Uganda coup and the internationalization of political violence (1972; updated 1975) -- Underdevelopment and nationalisation : banking in Tanzania (1978) -- Marginalization and the international division of labor : Mozambique's strategy of opening the market (1991) -- International organization and global governance -- Collective decolonisation and the U.N. Committee of 24 (1976) -- Rethinking "the new regionalism" in the context of globalization (1996) -- The globalization of organized crime, the courtesan state, and the corruption of civil society (with Robert Johnston 1999) -- Globalization -- What is critical globalization studies? (2004) -- Globalisation and environmental resistance politics (1998) -- Globalization and development : learning from debates in China (2006) -- Knowledge and power -- Rethinking the international division of labour in the context of globalization (1995) -- Conceptualizing resistance to globalization (with Christine B.N. Chin 1997) -- Globalization : an ascendant paradigm? (2002) -- Making globalization work for the have nots.
• Sommario/riassunto: Contesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a ; world level over the last half century. Including a framing introduction written for the volume, this book presents James H. Mittelman's most influential essays. It offers cross-regional analysis, drawing on his fieldwork in nine countries in Africa and Asia.This research explores mechanisms by which prevailing knowledge about global order is implicated in its deep tensions: chiefly, the impetus for development and global governance embodies aspirations for attaining wellbeing and upholding human dignity; yet m