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Author Cohen, Daniel, 1953-

Title Globalization and its enemies / Daniel Cohen
Edition First paperback edition
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2007

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Description ix, 192 pages ; 21 cm
Contents 1. The birth of the north-south axis -- 2. From one globalization to another -- 3. The new world economy -- 4. The clash of civilizations? -- 5. Indigenous growth -- 6. The empire, etcetera -- 7. AIDS and debt
Summary "The enemies of globalization - whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures - see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want it. But the truth of the matter, writes Daniel Cohen in this account, may be the reverse. Globalization, thanks to the speed of twenty-first-century communications, shows people a world of material prosperity that they do want - a vivid world of promises that have yet to be fulfilled. For the most impoverished developing nations, globalization remains only an elusive image, a fleeting mirage. Never before, Cohen says, have the means of communication - the media - created such a global consciousness, and never have economic forces lagged so far behind expectations. We should not, Cohen writes, consider globalization as an accomplished fact. It is because of what has yet to happen - the unfulfilled promises of prosperity - that globalization has so many enemies in the contemporary world. For the poorest countries of the world, the problem is not so much that they are exploited by globalization as that they are forgotten and excluded." -- BOOK JACKET
Notes Originally published: 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the French
Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects.
Globalization.
Author Baker, Jessica B
ISBN 0262532972 (paperback)
9780262532976 (paperback)
Other Titles Mondialisation et ses ennemis. English