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Globalization and Postmodern Politics
Roger Burbach
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Description for Globalization and Postmodern Politics
Hardcover. An overview of global politics, the corporate powers who dominate the information age and the new revolutionary movements rising up to challenge them. Num Pages: 184 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 272.
The book shows how wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a transnational elite while ever increasing numbers of people are being marginalised. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund are intent upon exercising a new hegemony over individuals as the role of the traditional nation state is transformed. At the centre of this power shift is a group of high-tech robber barons who dominate the Information Age and exploit the technologies of globalisation for their own narrow interests.
Roger Burbach explores the rise of the new grass roots ... Read more
The book shows how wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a transnational elite while ever increasing numbers of people are being marginalised. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund are intent upon exercising a new hegemony over individuals as the role of the traditional nation state is transformed. At the centre of this power shift is a group of high-tech robber barons who dominate the Information Age and exploit the technologies of globalisation for their own narrow interests.
Roger Burbach explores the rise of the new grass roots ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745316505
SKU
V9780745316505
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About Roger Burbach
Roger Burbach is Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas. He has written extensively on Latin America, US politics, and on post-communist societies and is the author, with Octavio Nunez and Boris Kagarlitsky, of Globalization and its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms (Pluto, 1996).
Reviews for Globalization and Postmodern Politics
'At last. A book that seeks to explain the explosion of opposition to global corporatism without using this as an excuse to batter just about every attempt to keep left thinking up with the times'
Red Pepper 'Burbach's superb analysis of emerging political movements provides eloquent testimony to the fact that corporate overreach has succeeded in creating an international ... Read more
Red Pepper 'Burbach's superb analysis of emerging political movements provides eloquent testimony to the fact that corporate overreach has succeeded in creating an international ... Read more