Global institutions, marginalization, and development

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Title:

Author:

Murphy, Craig.

ISBN:

9780415700566

9780415700559

Personal Author:

Murphy, Craig.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2005.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 p ; 24 cm.

Series:

RIPE series in global political economy

Series Title:

RIPE series in global political economy

Contents:

1. Institutions, marginalization, development -- 2. World organizations and human needs -- 3. The dialectic of liberal internationalism -- 4. Social movements and liberal world orders -- 5. The promise of democratic functionalism -- 6. International institutions, decolonization, and "development" -- 7. What the Third World wanted : the meaning of the NIEO -- 8. Freezing the north-south bloc after the east-west thaw -- 9. Global governance : poorly done and poorly understood -- 10. Political consequences of the new inequality -- 11. Leadership and global governance for the information age -- 12. To mingle, meet, and know : marginalization and the privileged.

Abstract:

"Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development discusses what systems of global institutions have done, and what they have not done, to keep their promise to the truly disadvantaged. It examines whether the system will serve the world's least-advantaged, or marginalize them further." "The future will largely be determined by the understanding of the global political economy developed by the world's most powerful people - corporate leaders and government officials in the strongest states. Their worldviews, in turn, will be influenced both by the political action and the ideas of social movements, and by the views of those who study the global political economy. Whether it is the "economists and political philosophers" of the rich or the social movements of the disadvantaged that are most likely to influence the world's lawmakers and the processes by which they will complete the next generation of multilateral institutions are the central topics of this book.".

"This book is important reading for anyone with an interest in international political economy, global governance, development and the politics of north-south relations."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

International organization.

Social problems.

Equality.

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For more than a century and a half, the most powerful national governments have created institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a more inclusive world, a world serving women, working people, the colonized, the 'backward', the destitute, and the despised.

This groundbreaking book is a study of that promise, and of the real impact of this world government. It discusses what systems global institutions have, and have not done to keep their promise, and examines whether the system will serve the world's least-advantaged, or marginalize them further.

This book focuses on whether it is the 'economists and political philosophers of the rich', or the social movements of the disadvantaged that are most likely to influence the world's lawmakers, and the processes by which they will complete the next generation of multilateral institutions.

An innovative study, this book is important reading for anyone with an interest in international political economy, global governance, development and the politics of north-south relations.