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Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class, and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations

By Susanne Soederberg

Book information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0745320708, 9780745320700, 9781435661547
Open Library ID
OL22728286M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1345879 bytes)
Series
Critical Introductions to World Politics
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
215\215
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

Like many buzzwords, 'global governance' is as poorly understood as it is popular. In contrast to most mainstream accounts, this book examines global economic governance as an integral moment of contemporary capitalism -- presenting a critical insight into its real nature and the interests that it serves. This book begins by asking what has not been discussed in the mainstream debates and why. Drawing on a Marxist perspective, Soederberg explores neglected issues including transnational debt and the increasingly coercive nature of US aid to so-called ‘failed states'. Soederberg argues that mainstream understandings fail to engage with the wider contradictions that characterise global capitalism. In consequence, there is no explanation of the changing nature of American empire and capitalist power in the world. Furthermore, Soederberg argues that global governance acts to normalise and legitimise increasingly austere forms of capitalist expansion, which may be regarded as a deepening and broadening of neoliberalism.

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