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Tables of Contents for Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Chapter/Section Title
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Introduction
ix
1. The Future of Global Polarization
1
11
Unequal Development and the Historical Forms of Capitalism
1
2
The Present World System and the Five Monopolies of the Centre
3
2
An Alternative Humanist Project of Globalization
5
1
Obstacles to the Realization of this Project
6
2
Possible Future Scenarios and their Inadequacy
8
2
Renewing a Perspective of Global Socialism
10
2
2. The Capitalist Economic Management of the Crisis of Contemporary Society
12
34
The `Laws of History': Capitalism Expansion Not Synonymous with Development
14
3
The Institutional Structure: The Bretton Woods Institutions
17
1
The IMF
18
8
The World Bank
26
1
GATT-WTO
26
5
Globalization: The Necessity of International Economic Management
31
8
Reforming Bretton Woods
39
7
3. Reforming International Monetary Management of the Crisis
46
9
Background
46
1
Flexible Exchange Rates are No Solution
47
2
Reform Proposals Emanating from the Mainstream
49
2
An Alternative Vision: Polycentric Regionalization
51
4
4. The Rise of Ethnicity: A Political Response to Economic Globalization
55
38
The Postwar Cycle (1945-90) and the New Globalization
56
5
The Disintegration of the State and the New Ethnic Ideologies in the Third World
61
3
Globalization and the Crisis of the Nationhood
64
8
The Current Management of the Crisis and its Alternatives
72
7
Further Thoughts on Universalism versus Particularism and the Socialist Response to Nationalism
79
14
5. What are the Conditions for Relaunching Development in the South?
93
15
Development off the Agenda
93
2
Contemporary Society is in Crisis, but there is Not Yet a Crisis of Capitalism
95
3
Solutions: Liberalism without Borders?
98
1
Nationalism
99
2
The Dangers of Anti-Democratic Regression: The Ethnic Assault, Religious Fundamentalism, and Neofascism
101
2
Reflections on a Counter-Project: Some Basic Propositions
103
5
6. The Challenges posed by Globalization: The European Case
108
26
The Lack of Political Complimentarity in the Postwar European Economic Community Project
108
5
The EC's Achievements: A Balance-Sheet
113
5
The Future of European Integration in the Age of Globalization
118
12
A Different Future: A Radical Vision for Europe
130
4
7. Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis
134
19
Social Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: Marxism, Post-Modernism and the Social Movements
134
6
The Intelligentsia vis-a-vis Mental Operatives
140
2
Development: Contrasting Critiques
142
5
The Analyses and Strategies put forward by the Third World Intelligentsia
147
1
A New Agenda: Analysing the Diversity of the Third World and Reconstructing the Social Power of the Popular Classes
148
5
Index
153