Global Electioneering or Global Backlash

Global Electioneering: Campaign Consulting Communications & Corporate Financing

Author: Gerald Sussman

Globalizing Politics explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communication and technology. Sussman challenges the common belief that American influence abroad is due strictly to the professionalization of politics and is instead affected by economics, industry, and the organizational power of new communication technology.

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Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy

Author: Robin Brood

Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With trenchant analysis and dozens of primary documents from a variety of popular and uncommon sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, But what do they want? A range of sophisticated propositions and a vibrant debate among segments of the backlash emerge. Highly readable and analytically powerful, this book is vital to understanding the most potent protest movement of our times.

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In covering the protests against corporate globalization and international financial institutions such as the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank, protestors are invariably portrayed by the corporate media as being ignorant of the issues, naively protectionist, or of a neo-Luddite bent. Answering that mischaracterization, Broad (international development, American U.) presents 46 contributions by an international group of critical theorists, commentators, and activist groups that present the arguments of the critics and, perhaps more importantly, numerous counter-proposals for a kind of globalization that would benefit the majority of the world. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	List of Acronyms
	Introduction: Of Magenta Hair, Nose Rings, and Naivete	1
1.1	Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade	23
1.2	Address to WTO Ministerial Meeting	26
1.3	Report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commision	29
1.4	Free Trade Is Not Free	34
1.5	Globalism on the Ropes	38
1.6	Alternatives to Economic Globalization	42
1.7	The New Internationalism	47
1.8	General Principles and Gender	51
1.9	The Death of the Washington Consensus?	56
2.1	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa	77
2.2	Why Can't People Feed Themselves?	80
2.3	Long before Seattle: Historical Resistance to Economic Globalization	86
2.4	Present at the Creation: The Bretton Woods Agreements	92
2.5	Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy	95
2.6	Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order	99
2.7	We Are to Be Sacrificed: Indigenous Peoples and Dams	103
2.8	The Pillars of the System	106
3.1	A Just and Sustainable Trade and Development Initiative for North America	129
3.2	Another Look at NAFTA	135
3.3	Cross-Border Labor Solidarity	140
3.4	NAFTA's Labor Agreement: Lessons	142
3.5	Building Workers' Human Rights into the Global Trading System	150
3.6	How the South Is Getting a Raw Deal at the WTO	154
3.7	How to Support the Rights of Women Workers in the Context of Trade Liberalisation in India	158
3.8	Agreement on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area	165
4.1	The Conscious Consumer: Promoting Economic Justice through Fair Trade	188
4.2	What Hope for "Ethical" Trade in the Globalized Garment Industry?	192
4.3	Business Partner Terms of Engagement and Guidelines for Country Selection	197
4.4	Presentation and Acceptance of Reebok Youth in Action Award	199
4.5	Children of the Looms: Rescuing the "Carpet Kids" of Nepal, India, and Pakistan	201
4.6	Independent Monitoring in Guatemala: What Can Civil Society Contribute?	206
4.7	Can Advocacy-Led Certification Systems Transform Global Corporate Practices?	210
4.8	Forest Stewardship Council Principles and Criteria	216
4.9	Letter to University Presidents Regarding Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns on American Campuses	222
4.10	Statement to College and University Presidents	224
4.11	Developing Effective Mechanisms for Implementing Labor Rights in the Global Economy	228
5.1	Our World Is Our Weapon	258
5.2	Bringing the Food Economy Back In: The Social, Ecological, and Economic Benefits of Local Food	262
5.3	Jaiv Panchayat: Biodiversity Protection at the Village Level	269
5.4	The Cochabamba Declaration on Water: Globalization, Privatization, and the Search for Alternatives	273
5.5	The Treaty Initiative: To Share and Protect the Global Water Commons	274
5.6	South-South Summit Declaration: Towards a Debt-Free Millennium	275
5.7	Controlling Casino Capital	282
5.8	How Much Is "Enough"?	287
5.9	Toward a Deglobalized World	292
	Conclusion: What Does It All Add Up To?	301
C.1	Globalization: Can Governments, Companies, and Yes, the Protesters Ever Learn to Get Along?	305
	Bibliography of Global Backlash Web Sites	309
	Index	325
	About the Contributors	335
	Credits	343