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Struggle and the Prospects for World Government

by Mark Arthur, Ph.D.; co-published with Global Thoughts Series

232 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0532; ISBN 1-55369-719-7; US$38.23, C$50.00, EUR32.50, £22.52

Using the disintegration of the Soviet Empire as a starting-point, this volume explores the processes of globalization and examines the tension between economic change and welfare.

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About the Book Struggle and the Prospects for World Government rethinks the cold war and the social, political and economic development that followed the collapse of the Berlin wall. This essay cuts across all aspects of what is increasingly termed the "new world order". At the same time, The book establishes that free trade, nationalism, religious nationalism, and technology are emerging in combination as a post-cold war weapon system that can globally power the war between neoliberalism and neosocialism, individualism and collectivism, modernism and archaism, and universalism and particularism within a two-fold framework that includes, at one end of the spectrum, the institutionalization of transnational politics, and at the other end of the spectrum, the unionization of anti-corporate forces. These factors have combined to inexorably allow more prospects for World Government.

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About the Author Mark Arthur is Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development Research in Denmark. As guest lecturer at large, he has contributed to the development of corporate education in various fora.

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Sample Excerpt

"...The level of structural differentiation and functional integration observed in the process of globalization shows the extent of its complexity and points to its universality and particularity at the same time. The new world order is still unfolding, and it is yet unclear what its final shape will be.

However, what is clear at this point in the staging of transnational politics is the cross-border movement of people, goods, services and capital investments, the repolarization of geopolitics that has already led to the emergence of three new economic blocks (the United States, the European Union and Japan), the universalization of the export led growth economy among other excesses of capitalism and imperfections of socialism, and finally, the reformulation of the world geostrategy in the direction of Brussels, Tokyo and Cairo as reflected by the enlargement of Europe (among other aspects of the EU project), the Far East Security Project (a regional security arrangement whereby Japan, a prominent Western ally will play key roles), and ultimately the war on terror, the Palestinian question and the disarmament of Iraq..."

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Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface

1 The order of cold confrontation
Cold War or war order
Cold War Blocks
From a rudimentary army to the atomic age
The German and Korean question
The Cuban missile crisis
The armament race

2 Emerging forces and corporate rule
The contradictory principles of nationalizing and globalizing
National resentment
Religionism
Jihad
Sectarian violence
The bridge of technology
Corporate transnationality

3 Global confrontation
The agenda of globality
The new Cold War
Anti-corporate pressures
Conflicting ideologies: Neoliberalism vs. Neosocialism

4 Towards a transnation-state
Transnational solidarity and the legal order of trade
Global citizenship and interconnectedness

5 Appendices
Selected abstracts of the results of the Uruguay round of trade negotiations: Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO; GATT 1994
GATS: Rules and procedures governing the settlement of dispute
Selected organizations and transnational corporations

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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