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The paradox of neoliberal economic globalization is that it both weakens and simultaneously activates the social forces of resistance. As the ‘global crisis’ of 1998–9 demonstrated to all of the world, the on-going debate on ‘globalization’ is strategic for the coming era. The shape of the future depends on its outcome. This book sets out to alter the intellectual and political terms of the globalization debate, and thus its strategic direction. Firstly, this goal is to be accomplished by asserting the centrality of ‘the political’ and repudiating narrow economic determinism and the ‘teleology’ of neoliberal economic globalization.
‘rebellion is one of man’s essential dimensions. It is our historical reality. Unless we ignore reality, we must find our values in itchrw … Man’s solidarity is founded upon rebellion, and rebellion can only be justified by this solidaritychrw … In order to exist, man must rebelchrw… Rebellion is the common ground on which every man bases his first values. I rebel — therefore we exist.’
Albert Camus, The Rebel (L’Homme revolté) 1951
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The original version of this argument was made in my editorial introduction to ‘Globalization and the Politics of Resistance’, a special issue of New Political Economy (Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1997). See also: André C. Drainville, ‘International Political Economy in the Age of Open Marxsim’, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1994), pp. 105–32, 425.
See: Barry Gills, ‘Whither Democracy? Globalization and the “New Hellenism”’, in Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin (eds), Globalization and the South (Macmillan, 1996).
See: Barry Gills, Joel Rocamora and Richard Wilson (eds), Low Intensity Democracy: Political Power in the New World Order (Pluto, 1993).
and Steve Smith, ‘US Democracy Promotion: Theoretical Reflections’, in Michael Cox, Takashi Inoguchi and John Ikenberry (eds), US Democracy Promotion (Oxford University Press, 1999).
and Barry Gills ‘American Power, Neoliberal Globalization, and Low Intensity Democracy: An Unstable Trinity?’, in Michael Cox, Takashi Inoguchi and John Ikenberry (eds), US Democracy Promotion (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Manfred Bienefeld, ‘Capitalism and the Nation State in the Dog Days of the Twentieth Century’, in Ralph Miliband and Leo Panitch (eds), The Socialist Register (Merlin Press, 1995), p. 103.
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Gills, B.K. (2000). Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance. In: Gills, B.K. (eds) Globalization and the Politics of Resistance. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230519176_1
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