Research Catalog

Title

Inequality, globalization, and world politics / edited by Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Hurrell, Andrew.
• Woods, Ngaire.
• Hurrell, Andrew, 1955-

Description

ix, 353 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Inequality is becoming an urgent issue of world politics at the end of the twentieth century. Globalization is not only exacerbating the gap between rich and poor in the world but is also further dividing those states and peoples that have political power and influence from those without. While the powerful shape more `global' rules and norms about investment, military security, environmental and social policy and the like, the less powerful are becoming `rule-takers', often of rules or norms they cannot or will not enforce. The consequences for world politics are profound. The evidence presented in Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics suggests that globalization is creating sharper, more urgent problems for states and international institutions to deal with. Yet at the same time, investigations into eight core areas of world politics suggest that growing inequality is reducing the capacity of governments and existing international organizations to manage these problems effectively. The eight areas surveyed include: international order, international law, welfare and social policy, global justice, regionalism and multilateralism, environmental protection, gender equality, military power, and security."--Book cover.

Subject

• Since 1989
• International relations
• Equality of states
• World politics > 1989-
• Globalization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-333) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Order, globalization, and inequality in world politics / Ngaire Woods -- Globalization, regionalization, and inequality / Charles Oman -- Sovereignty and inequality / Benedict Kingsbury -- Gender inequality and international human rights law / Christine Chinkin -- Resources, environmental degradation, and inequality / Michael Redclift and Colin Sage -- Globalization, liberalization, and inequality: expectations and experience / Frances Stewart and Albert Berry -- Justice and inequality / David Miller -- Social Policy in a global context / Bob Deacon -- Security and inequality / Andrew Hurrell.

ISBN

• 0198295677 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0198295669 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98044963^

OCLC

• 40105036
• SCSB-10196951

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library