Globalization and the South

by Caroline Thomas (Editor), Peter Wilkin (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together a group of authors who share a common concern with the effects of globalization on the South. Included among these effects is the accelerating erosion of the social, economic and political significance of the territorial distinction on which the terms South and North are founded. The authors' aim is explicit: to offer a unique perspective on globalization which places the transformation of the South and the renewed global organization of inequality at the heart of our understanding of the global order.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312175641
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/29/1997
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - List of Acronyms - Globalization and the South; C.Thomas - New Myths for the South: Globalisation and the Conflict between Private Power and Freedom; P.Wilkin - Democratic Development in the South in the Next Millennium: What Prospects for Avoiding Anarchy and Authoritarianism?; T.M.Shaw & F.Quadir - Whither Democracy?: Globalisation and the 'New Hellenism'; B.Gills - The Moral Condemnation of the South; F.Furedi - Universal Human Rights: Imposing Values; T.Evans - Organising Hunger: The Global Organisation of Famines and Feasts; J.Saurin - Global Ecologism and Its Critics; M.A.Mohamed Salih - Fast-Tract Capitalism, Geoeconomic Competition, and the Sustainable Development Challenge in East Asia; W.Bello - The World Bank's Finances: An International Debt Crisis; P.Adams - Foreign Aid and the Erosion of Local Institutions: An Autopsy of Arun-e from Inception to Abortion; D.Gyawali - The Globalizers' Dilemma: Contention and Resistance in Intercultural Space; L.Lohmann - Index

Editorial Reviews

Shows that ideas of universality held by international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, and inherent in a range of liberalization processes, serve to undermine the possibility of meaningful self-determination for the majority of people in the South. Includes papers on globalization and the conflict between private power and freedom, democratic development in the South, the moral condemnation of the South, universal human rights, and foreign aid and the erosion of local institutions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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