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Autore: | Mittelman James H. |
Titolo: | Contesting global order : development, global governance, and globalization / / James H. Mittelman |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina: | 341.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Globalization |
Economic development - Political aspects | |
International organization | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Contesting global order |
ISBN: | 1-136-86506-3 |
1-283-10507-1 | |
9786613105073 | |
1-136-86507-1 | |
0-203-83666-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910789605503321 |
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