Title Globalization, negotiation, and the failure of transformation in South Africa : revolution at a bargain? / Michael H. Allen

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) Contents 1. Introduction : questions from a gestalt moment -- 2. Theory and context -- 3. Violence, capital flows, and bargaining power -- 4. Financial globalization, debt negotiations, and reform in South Africa -- 5. Negotiating economic justice : globalization or socialism? -- 6. Revolution at a bargain? -- 7. Globalist and non-sexist? -- 8. Negotiating democracy -- 9. Conclusion : the failure of transformation Summary "Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa" considers the consequences of the coincidence of two revolutions in South Africa at the end of the Cold War. One was the completion of decolonization in Africa, with the advent of African majority rule and democracy in South Africa in 1994. The other was the emergence of the global mode of production as the pre-eminent form of organization in world political economy, that was to force revisions of prior assumptions about development strategies, international diplomacy, nation-building, class struggle and gender relations in all parts of the world. The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution. A unique theoretical synthesis from several critical perspectives, informs this study of South African political economy up to the early years of the Twenty-first century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- South Africa Globalization -- Social aspects -- South Africa Globalization -- Political aspects -- South Africa Free enterprise -- South Africa Debts, External -- South Africa POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. Debts, External Economic history Economic policy Free enterprise Globalization -- Economic aspects Globalization -- Political aspects Globalization -- Social aspects International economic relations SUBJECT South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001766 South Africa -- Economic policy South Africa -- Foreign economic relations Subject South Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 9781403983077 1403983070 1281369705 9781281369703 9781403971418 1403971412

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