Global Tensions

Violent anti-globalization protests in Seattle and Genoa focused attention on the growing resistance to free trade and the world's market economy.Global Tensionstakes a close look at the challenges posed by the processes of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Composed of original essays by renowned scholars, this volume explores controversial topics such as free trade, women's rights, labor standards, and the World Trade Organization. Each of the authors presents a critical evaluation of globalization and its ramifications, including problems that have yet to be addressed.

Introduction
Globalization and Global Governance
Towards a stark utopia? New constitutionalism and the politics of globalization
Tax Distortion in the Global Economy
Human Rights and Corporate Profits: the UN Global Compact - Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
Cross-Border Externalities and International Public Goods: Implications for Aid Agencies
North-South Tensions
Financial Sector Liberalization and the Asian Financial Crisis: The IFIs Got it Wrong Twice
Developing Countries and the New Financial Architecture
Globalization: Eight Crises of Social Protection, Guy Standing
The Politics of International Trade
Biotechnology and Food Security: Profiting on Insecurity?
The WTO, GATS and TPRM: Servicing Liberalization and Eroding Equity Goals?
Labour Standards, Women's Rights, Basic Needs: Challenges to Collective Action in a Globalizing World
Contesting Global Trade Rules: Social Movements and the World Trade Organization
Gender, Globalization and Development
Utilizing Interdisciplinarity to Analyze Global Socio-economic Change: A Tribute to Ester Boserup
Development and Productive Deprivation: Male Patriarchal Relations in Business Families and their Implications for Women in S. India
Promoting Women's Capabilities
Urban and Global Linkages
The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier
Urban Tensions: Globalization, Industrial Restructuring, and the Post-metropolitan Transition
Urban Transport and Structural Tensions in Developing Countries
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