Introduction: Envisioning a civilized globalization
Güven, Ali Burak and Sandbrook, R. (2014) Introduction: Envisioning a civilized globalization. In: Sandbrook, R. and Güven, Ali Burak (eds.) Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition. SUNY series in Radical Social and Political Theory. Albany, U.S.: SUNY Press, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781438452104.
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Abstract
Book synopsis: Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of widespread popular discontent. This fully revised and expanded edition comes at an equally crucial juncture. The period of relative stability and prosperity in the world economy that followed the release of the first edition ended abruptly in 2008 with a worldwide economic crisis that illustrated in dramatic fashion the enduring problems with our global order. Yet despite the gravity of the challenges, concrete initiatives for change remain insubstantial. Richard Sandbrook and Ali Burak Güven bring together international scholars and veteran activists to discuss in clear, nontechnical language the innovative political strategies, participatory institutional frameworks, and feasible regulatory designs capable of taming global markets so that they assume the role of useful servants rather than tyrannical masters.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
Depositing User: | Ali Burak Guven |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2021 06:40 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:06 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/42118 |
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