1. Edition - October 2009
25.90 Euro
2009. 348 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-82503-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-82503-7 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it's a process that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, travelled and traded. It can't be stopped but it can be slowed. It came to a grinding halt in August 1914 and the Marxist detour cost millions of lives and lost three generations their opportunity and hope in many countries. More wealth has been created in the past 60 years than in all of history. After the most successful decade of sustained economic growth in history, this progress is threatened.

Extreme inequality, corruption and environmental degradation threaten the stability and legitimacy of many developing countries' regimes. Anti-globalization and anti-capitalist campaigners' confidence has been emboldened due to the present economic crisis. Protectionist rhetoric is growing as are the arguments to control and regulate markets. Leaders are meeting to discuss how to face these problems and create a new international architecture. How did we get to this position? What should we do? What is it that determines why some contemporary states are successful while others have failed?

Saving Globalization departs from its analysis of the globalised economy in the twenty-first century to answer these question by tracing the development of what Moore considers to be 'the big ideas of history': democracy, independent courts, the separation of church and state, property rights, independent courts, a professional civil service, and civil society. Democratic capitalism has worked for most people. Why? It is a remarkable story, from the Greeks to the Geeks, encompassing technological progress and the corrections and contradictions between liberty and equality, technology, growth and the environment. In defence of the many virtues and opportunities that globalisation offers, Mike Moore makes the case for a fresh and new approach to our international Institutions and for domestic policies that promote equity and fairness. The book controversially attacks the new enemies of reason and evidence. The threats now come from all sides, especially workers in developed countries who fear for their jobs. Mike Moore is a political practitioner turned theoretician. .

From the contents
Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note About Terminology

Part 1: THE WORLD TODAY
Chapter 1: Accelerating Change and the Threat of De-Globalization
Chapter 2: The Rise and Rise of China
Chapter 3: Enter India
Chapter 4: The Islamic World: The Need for Mutual Respect

Part 2: BIG IDEAS THROUGH HISTORY
Chapter 5: Early Consensus Government
Chapter 6: Democracy--A Universal Impulse?
Chapter 7: The Gift of Greece
Chapter 8: "Civis Romanus Sum": Roman Citizenship and Roman Law
Chapter 9: The Glorious Revolution: Freedom in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 10: Magna Carta and Beyond
Chapter 11: Revolution and Reform: 1775-1914
Chapter 12: Modern International Institutions

Part 3: THE PILLARS OF FREEDOM AND PROGRESS
Chapter 13: The Need for Good Governance
Chapter 14: Openness
Chapter 15: Free Trade
Chapter 16: A New Democracy
Chapter 17: Mobility and the Decent Society

Part 4: ENEMIES OF THE OPEN SOCIETY
Chapter 18: Power and Manipulation
Chapter 19: The Dangers of Absolute Conviction
Chapter 20: The Enemies of Reason

Part 5: AFTERTHOUGHTS AND RECONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 21: Information and Reputation
Chapter 22: Engagement in a Rapidly Changing World
Chapter 23: American Engagement
Chapter 24: Climate Change and the Energy Challenge
Chapter 25: What We Must Do

Endnotes

Index