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Contesting global order : development, global governance, and globalization / James H. Mittelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mittelman, James H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- Economic development--Political aspects.
- Economic development.
- International organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contesting Global Order traces dominant values and patterns on a world level over the last half century. Including a framing introduction written for the volume, this book presents James H. Mittelman's most influential essays. It offers cross-regional analysis, drawing on his fieldwork in nine countries in Africa and Asia.This research explores mechanisms by which prevailing knowledge about global order is implicated in its deep tensions: chiefly, the impetus for development and global governance embodies aspirations for attaining wellbeing and upholding human dignity; yet m
- Contents:
- Development
- The Uganda coup and the internationalization of political violence (1972; updated 1975)
- Underdevelopment and nationalisation : banking in Tanzania (1978)
- Marginalization and the international division of labor : Mozambique's strategy of opening the market (1991)
- International organization and global governance
- Collective decolonisation and the U.N. Committee of 24 (1976)
- Rethinking "the new regionalism" in the context of globalization (1996)
- The globalization of organized crime, the courtesan state, and the corruption of civil society (with Robert Johnston 1999)
- Globalization
- What is critical globalization studies? (2004)
- Globalisation and environmental resistance politics (1998)
- Globalization and development : learning from debates in China (2006)
- Knowledge and power
- Rethinking the international division of labour in the context of globalization (1995)
- Conceptualizing resistance to globalization (with Christine B.N. Chin 1997)
- Globalization : an ascendant paradigm? (2002)
- Making globalization work for the have nots.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-86506-3
- 1-283-10507-1
- 9786613105073
- 1-136-86507-1
- 0-203-83666-9
- 9780203836668
- OCLC:
- 713022984
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