The Endgame of Globalization
The recent American invasion of Iraq represents the endgame of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization-a system dominated by multinational firms and buttressed by the liberalism of John Locke and Adam Smith. Whereas the war surely ended Saddam Hussein's regime, the storm of countervailing forces it unleashed points to another end: that of America's latest global project.This is not the first time that the US has tried to reshape the world in its own liberal image, but the third. The first effort stretched from the late nineteenth century to 1920, ending when America rejected entry into the League of Nations. The FDR…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-93053-0
- EAN: 9781135930530
- Produktnummer: 18433061
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 228 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 999 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
Über den Autor
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Director of CUNY's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of Uneven Development, The New Urban Frontier, and American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, which received The Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography in 2003.
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