Globalization and Insecurity
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Although the word globalization is still not received English, many books now celebrate the global integration of trade, finance, culture and telecommunication. This is a book with a difference: nine renowned experts examine the threats to security - physical, political and economic - of specific aspects of globalization and then explore the social responses to these threats. Between them, the contributors cover politics, the environment, conflict, finance, manufacturing, armaments, labour, development and social security. These thought provoking and disturbing essays are essential to a…mehr

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Although the word globalization is still not received English, many books now celebrate the global integration of trade, finance, culture and telecommunication. This is a book with a difference: nine renowned experts examine the threats to security - physical, political and economic - of specific aspects of globalization and then explore the social responses to these threats. Between them, the contributors cover politics, the environment, conflict, finance, manufacturing, armaments, labour, development and social security. These thought provoking and disturbing essays are essential to a critical understanding of globalization. They set an agenda for research and action on the regulation of global forces.
Autorenporträt
SAMIR AMIN Professor of Economics and Director of the Third World Forum's Africa Office, Dakar IAN BROWNLIE, CBE, FBA, QC Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University ROBIN COHEN Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre of the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick GOSTA ESPING-ANDERSON Professor of Political Science, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona VALPY FITZGERALD Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College and Director of the Finance and Trade Policy Research Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University JOHN KAY FBA Fellow of St John's College, Oxford COLIN LEYS Emeritus Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada WOLFGANG SACHS Senior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environmental and Energy and Chair of Greenpeace in Germany SUSAN WILLETT Director of the Cost of Disarmament Programme, United Nations Organization, Geneva