TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Daniel
TI  - Globalization and its enemies
SN  - 026203350X
AV  - HF1359 .C64813 2006
U1  - 303.482 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188) and index; 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
N2  - Counters the argument that the global economy forces a system on people who do not want it, contending that globalization shows people material prosperity that they do want, and that poor countries have been excluded, not exploited; "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
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