New Book
by Mark Rupert / Paperback - 208 pages (December 2000) / Routledge; ISBN: 041518925X
"Globalization" is neither natural nor inevitable; nor does the term itself have a singular and unproblematic referent. How - and indeed whether - globalization is to occur will depend upon the outcomes of political struggles some of which have already begun. Crucial to these struggles will be the social meanings attached to "globalization," the ideologies in terms of which it is assigned political significance, and the political projects which these ideologies envision and enable. I seek to provide in this study a critical interpretation of ideological and political struggles over the meaning and future of "globalization" especially as these have unfolded in the nexus between the US and the world political economy.
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