Globalization and Anti-Globalization (Series on Globalization)

Author: David Held and Anthony McGrew
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: By examining the various signs of globalization, it discusses the competitive judgments and rebuttals of the main stances of globalization advocates and anti-globalization critics in the debate over globalization. The authors explore governance issues, cultural issues, economic models, and global ethics. They investigate the central questions of political life in the globalization debate: who should rule, according to whose interests, for what purposes, and by what means? Their conclusion proposes a new political agenda for the 21st century—a global covenant of cosmopolitan social democracy.