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

• Autore: Rupert Mark
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Disciplina: 337; 337.73
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign economic relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ideologies of globalization
• ISBN: 1-280-32969-6; 0-203-17060-1; 1-134-65825-7; 0-203-13131-2; 9786610329694
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450795603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy