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Contesting global order : development, global governance, and globalization / James H. Mittelman.

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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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