Global Instability

1. Front Matter

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2. Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy

   1. Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy

      • Stephen McBride, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Laurent Dobuzinskis, James Busumtwi-Sam

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3. International Pressures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. When Labour and Investment Standards Almost Mattered: A Putative History Lesson in Trade Politics that Ought Not to Be Forgotten

      • Daniel Drache

      Pages 9-28

   3. Monetary Instability: Are National Currencies Becoming Obsolete?

      • Benjamin J. Cohen

      Pages 29-41

   4. Reducing Barriers to Investment: Is the NAFTA Investment Regime an Appropriate Model?

      • Maureen Appel Molot

      Pages 43-63

   5. Liberalizing “Trade in Services”: Ideas in International Political Economy

      • Russell Alan Williams

      Pages 65-85

4. Domestic Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Local Industries in a Global Market: A Comparative Study of the Cape Breton and Queensland Coal Industries

      • Bradley Bowden, Andrew Molloy

      Pages 89-105

   3. The Future of Industrial Policy in a WTO World

      • Marc Lee

      Pages 107-127

   4. Turning the Titanic? Policy Making After Neoliberalism

      • John Wiseman

      Pages 129-146

   5. Re-Invention and Transition of the Mexican State

      • JoséG. Vargas Hernández

      Pages 147-159

5. Alternatives (and the need for them)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Democracy, Complexity and Non-Territorial Publics: The Case for Forest Trusts

      • Gus diZerega

      Pages 163-180

   3. Old Wine in New Bottles? Civic Republicanism and the Challenges of the Global Era

      • Laurent Dobuzinskis

      Pages 181-199

   4. Dimensions of Globalization: Cultural and Institutional Novelties, Ethical Needs

      • Andrea Migone

      Pages 201-218

   5. Quasi Democracy

      • Duncan Cameron

      Pages 219-231

6. Back Matter

   Pages 233-237

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Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy presents a series of papers that address the political consequences of globalization for states and their populations, while exploring the issue of alternatives to the model of globalization we are presently experiencing. The focus moves from the world of international agreements to the national and sub-national dilemmas that are posed by attempting to manage a set of global developments within a given territory. The initial chapter, by Daniel Drache, explores a still-born post-war international organization, the International Trade Organization, that offers a different vision of how a globally integrated economy might operate. A number of papers then explore the challenges posed by today's globalization, including currency instability in an environment of financial deregulation, the rights conferred on investors by the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the progressive liberalization of trade in services built into the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

• Institution
• Nation
• Policy
• Political Science
• environment
• political economy
• politics

• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

  Stephen McBride, Laurent Dobuzinskis, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, James Busumtwi-Sam

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