ABSTRACT:
Book Description:
This book is a welcome and timely endeavor to the study of Globalization, which as we know is the currency of contemporary economic and political debates. It is very broad in scope and its more than 40 pages of references provides the most complete survey for research and information on this field that I've already seen. Undoubtedly an outstanding contribution to the field of international politics, which deserves pride of place in the library of any scholar interested in political and social sciences.
-Prof. Dr. Tessaleno Devezas, Systems scientist, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Table of Contents:
FOREWORD
1. INTRODUCTION – A REFORMIST PERSPECTIVE ON GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 36
2. WHY NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION DOES NOT PRODUCE THE RESULTS IT PROMISES ON A GLOBAL SCALE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, 1980 - 2005
3. WHY NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AND UNILATERALISM DO NOT WORK: NEW QUANTITATIVE INSIGHTS INTO WORLD SYSTEMS GOVERNANCE
4. WHY NEO-LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AND UNILATERALISM DO NOT WORK: KONDRATIEV WAVES, BASED ON GOLDSTEIN’S AND UNIDO WORLD INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION DATA 1740 – 2004. IS A RE-MAKE OF THE WORLD DEPRESSION OF THE 1970S AND THE EARLY 1980S AHEAD?
5. WHY UNILATERALISM DOES NOT WORK: WAR CYCLES IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM, 1495 - 2002
6. HOW UNILATERALISM DID NOT WORK IN THE PAST: MAJOR POWER WARS 199
TECHNICAL APPENDIX TO THIS CHAPTER 208
7. WHY A NEW “VIENNA CONSENSUS” IS NECESSARY. EUROPE AFTER THE FRENCH RIOTS AND THE LATIN AMERICANIZATION OF THE “OLD CONTINENT”
