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| Name | Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class, and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations |
| Author(s) | Ryan Foster, Susanne Soederberg |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Web Location | http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0745320708/ref=sib_fs_top?ie=UTF8&p=S00C&checkSum=QcH8Ci0vTYFF5yRgsGjJ5eBdUIP2W545dx6z3LWG6MQ%3D#reader-link |
| Keywords | global economic governance, international strategies of corporate social responsibility, transnational debt, global capitalism, neoliberalism |
| Areas of Interest | Corporate Social Responsibility; Globalization |
| Citation | Ryan Foster and Soederberg, Susanne. 2006. Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class, and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations, Critical Studies in World Politics. Toronto, Canada: Pluto Press and University of Michigan Press |
| Summary | Like many buzzwords global governance is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts of global governance, this book examines global economic governance as an integr |
| Abstract / Description | Like many buzzwords global governance is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts of global governance, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of contemporary capitalism so as to better understand its inner-nature and thereby expose the interests served by it usage. This book begins its interrogation by asking what has not been discussed in the mainstream debates and why. Drawing on a Marxist perspective, Soederberg explores neglected issues pertaining to relations of power along the North-South axis such as: international strategies of corporate social responsibility, transnational debt, and the increasingly coercive nature of US aid to so-called 'failed states.' Soederberg argues that mainstream understandings of global economic governance fail to engage with the wider contradictions that characterise global capitalism. The immediate consequences of this neglect are, first, that there is no explanation of the changing nature of American empire and capitalist power in the world. And, second, that global governance acts to normalise, neutralise, and legitimate increasingly austere forms of capitalist restructuring and expansion, which may be regarded as a deepening and broadening of neoliberalism. |
| Publisher/Organization | Pluto Press and University of Michigan Press |
| Cluster Library | None |
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