ISBN:
9781138782891
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (237 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical Issues in Global Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization Revisited
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Written by one of the leading scholars of global politics, Globalization Revisited is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains the challenges to liberalism and the global order as result of globalizing forces - from financial interconnectedness to the growth of religious fundamentalisms. The text:provides a detailed analysis of the economic and financial aspects of globalization; examines the changes to global power and governance created by globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state; discusses recent trends such as the increased
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: what is at stake in revisiting globalization?; Introduction; Setting the scene; Approaching globalization; Contours of a global political economy; The fate of the state and territory; Methodological responses and criticisms; The chapters in outline; 2 The fate of territorial engineering in an era of 'durable disorder': mechanisms of territorial power and post-liberal forms of international governance; Introduction; The notion of 'territorial engineering'
Description / Table of Contents:
'Spirited martial power' and territorial engineeringToleration; Boundaries; International toleration; What is to be tolerated?; Conclusions; Notes; 3 Exploring sameness and difference: fundamentalisms and the future of globalization; Introduction; What does fundamentalism mean?; Preliminary implications and consequences; Religious fundamentalisms and 'globalization'; Why is all this important?; Conclusions; Notes; 4 Globalization, finance and the 'crisis': a critical assessment; Introduction; Financial globalization?; Global or supranational regional?; Contagion between markets and economies
Description / Table of Contents:
The impossible conditions for a genuine global financial systemFurther comments on the notion of 'crisis'; What is to be done?; Conclusions; Notes; 5 The global regulatory consequences of an irrational crisis: examining 'animal spirits' and 'excessive exuberances' as features of the financial system; Introduction; The rationalistic terms of modelling options, derivatives and CDOs; Dealing with the sources of animal spirits and irrational exuberances; What kind of regulatory responses?; Conclusions; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Sources of financial sociability: networks, ecological systems or diligent risk preparedness?Introduction; Schmitt's irrational other and the possibility of 'decisions'; What is finance?; Conceptions of financial sociability; What's wrong with modern finance theory and practice?; Notes; 7 From artisan to partisan: what would it mean to be an artisan of finance?; Introduction; What is an artisan?; Some intellectual resources; Decision, decisions, decisions …; The partisan and the nomad; The desert, nomads and artisans; Implications and consequences
Description / Table of Contents:
What would be the operational characteristics of such a system?Illustrations and applications; Conclusions; Notes; 8 Creating credit and rating it: Central Banks in post-crisis global finance; Introduction; The empirics; What have been the innovative policies?; Central Banks and sovereign risk; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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