1st Edition

Globalization in Crisis

Edited By Barry K. Gills Copyright 2011
342 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate. Written by some of the world’s leading international scholars in the field of Globalization studies and related disciplines, this important... Read more

Foreword: A Fair Globalization During Crisis  Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland

1. Introduction: Framing the Debate: One Crisis or Many? The Return of Crisis in the Era of Globalization: One Crisis, or Many?  Barry K. Gills

2. The Multiple Crisis and Beyond  François Houtart

3. Converging Crises: Reality, Fear and Hope  Susan George

Analysing Financial, Economic and Capitalist Crisis: Old and New Logics

4. A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions of Primitive Accumulation  Saskia Sassen

5. Globalisation, Crisis and the Political Economy of the International Monetary (Dis)Order  Ankie Hoogvelt

6. What Next? An Explanation of the 2008–2009 Slump and Two Scenarios of the Shape of Things to Come  Heikki Patomäki

7. The Global Regulatory Consequences of an Irrational Crisis: Examining ‘Animal Spirits’ and ‘Excessive Exuberances’  Grahame F. Thompson

8. The Economic Crisis, Capitalism and Islam: The Making of a New Economic Order?  Wazir Jahan Karim

9. Critical Ideas in Times of Crisis: Reconsidering Smith, Marx, Keynes, and Hayek  M. Scott Solomon

Security, States, and World Order Crisis

10. A Radical World Order Challenge: Addressing Global Climate Change and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons  Richard Falk

11. Crisis and Global Governance: Money, Discourses, and Institutions  James H. Mittelman

‘Alter-hegemonic’ Perspectives

12. In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’  Mustapha Kamal Pasha

13. A Long View of Globalization and Crisis  V. Spike Peterson

14. Lessons of a ‘Good’ Crisis: Learning in, and From the Third World  Craig N. Murphy

15. The Global Crisis and Latin America  Henry Veltmeyer

16. Globalization, Crisis and Social Transformation: A View from the South  Ronaldo Munck

17. After 30 Years of Deadlock: Labour’s Possible Strategies in the New Global Order  Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Werner Sauerborn

Radical Politics in the Global Crisis

18. Exiting the Crisis of Capitalism or Capitalism in Crisis?  Samir Amin

19. Globalization, Crisis and Transformation: World Systemic Crisis and the Historical Dialectics of Capital  Barry K. Gills

20. The Stakes of Radical Politics have Changed: Post-crisis, Relevance and the State  Jonathan Pugh

21. Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen  Walden Bello

22. The Invisible Summit: The UN Conference on the Global Economic Crisis—An Eyewitness Account  Nick Buxton

23. The Copenhagen Global Summit on Climate Change: A View from the Ground  Gemma Bone

24. Global Governance for Global Development  Björn Hettne

Biography

Barry K. Gills is Professor of Global Politics at Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He is the founding Editor of Globalizations journal and the "Rethinking Globalizations" book series from Routledge. Dr. Gills is also a founding Editor of the Review of International Political Economy. A former Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, and present fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, he has published widely in the fields of critical Globalization Studies, world system theory, global history, and Critical Development Studies. His recent works include Globalization and Global History (2006, with William R. Thompson) and Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice (2008).