Globalization and Politics: Promises and Dangers

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 253 pages
Globalization and Politics brings together vision and imaginative insight to the analysis of the evolution of inter-state politics to produce a clear, comprehensive and coherent sense of how globalization works and how it might work better. The study looks upon globalization as a distinct set of phenomena - energy, economy, environment and politics - all of which interact. Presenting opportunities for interdependency and governance, globalization offers both dangers and promises which explains why it is equally feared and praised. Globalization is an economic trend with strong spillovers and as such has become a political trend with cultural implications. This volume is an invaluable, highly readable new text for graduate and undergraduate courses. It sets out the key challenges for globalization in the 21st century and looks at the challenges, responses and risks of globalization. It is required reading for analysts, students and professionals who want to understand what's at stake in the globalization debate.

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Contents

Promises and Dangers 112347
1
CHALLENGES
15
Environmental Degradation and Environmentalism
31
Endangered Species
38
Implementing Human Rights and Global Rule of
45
Rule of Law in a Global Context
58
A Simple Model of Negative Positive and Group Rights
64
Crime and Globalization
70
From Sovereignty to Reciprocity
129
Power in International Organization
147
Alternative Interpretations
153
A Comparison of Regional
159
Regional Groups
168
Security First Prosperity Later
179
Relevance of Universalism
185
The Global Internet Community
192

Diversity of Civilizations
77
Globalization Reducing Nationalism
86
Democracy in Multicultural Societies A Global Challenge
93
RESPONSES
99
PROSPECTS
197
A NeoVeblen World?
215
Index
243
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