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Although the word globalization is still not received English, many books now celebrate the global integration of trade, finance, culture and telecommunication. This is a book with a difference: nine renowned experts examine the threats to security - physical, political and economic - of specific aspects of globalization and then explore the social responses to these threats. Between them, the contributors cover politics, the environment, conflict, finance, manufacturing, armaments, labour, development and social security. These thought provoking and disturbing essays are essential to a critical understanding of globalization. They set an agenda for research and action on the regulation of global forces.
List of contents
Globalization, Insecurities and Responses: An Introductory Essay; B.Harriss-White Economic Globalism and Political Universalism: Conflicting Issues?; S.Amin Global Capitalism and National Politics; C.Leys Globalization and Sustainability; W.Sachs The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes between States and the Problems of Globalization; I.Browlie The Security of International Finance; V.Fitzgerald Global Business in Search of Security; J.Kay Globalization and the Means of Destruction: Physical Security and Weapons at the Turn of the Millennium; S.WIllett Labour in the Age of Globalization; R.Cohen The Sustainability of Welfare States: Reshaping Social Protection; G.Esping-Anderson Index
About the author
SAMIR AMIN Professor of Economics and Director of the Third World Forum's Africa Office, Dakar
IAN BROWNLIE, CBE, FBA, QC Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University
ROBIN COHEN Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre of the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick
GOSTA ESPING-ANDERSON Professor of Political Science, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
VALPY FITZGERALD Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College and Director of the Finance and Trade Policy Research Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University
JOHN KAY FBA Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
COLIN LEYS Emeritus Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
WOLFGANG SACHS Senior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environmental and Energy and Chair of Greenpeace in Germany
SUSAN WILLETT Director of the Cost of Disarmament Programme, United Nations Organization, Geneva
Summary
Although the word globalization is still not received English, many books now celebrate the global integration of trade, finance, culture and telecommunication. This is a book with a difference: nine renowned experts examine the threats to security - physical, political and economic - of specific aspects of globalization and then explore the social responses to these threats. Between them, the contributors cover politics, the environment, conflict, finance, manufacturing, armaments, labour, development and social security. These thought provoking and disturbing essays are essential to a critical understanding of globalization. They set an agenda for research and action on the regulation of global forces.
