Power in the Global Era: Grounding Globalization

This volume discusses the effects of globalization on changing power relationships between transnational corporations (TNCs), and transnational capital, the state, and subnational groups. TNCs have expanded their power with the deepening of market relations, but they are not causing the state to wither away. Indeed, neoliberal changes often occur with the permission or even encouragement of powerful states. Transnational capital has weakened labour groups in order to make production more competitive, but the disadvantaged groups may mobilise to counter the power of transnational capital. Finally, globalization is subjecting domestic policies to increased international scrutiny.

Table of Contents:
Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; T.H.Cohn, S.McBride & J.Wiseman PART ONE Deconstructing Globalization; L.Dobuzinskis Transnational Politics: Beyond the National?; I.Bakker PART TWO: STATES CORPORATIONS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS Transnational Politics: Political Consciousness, Corporate Power and the Internationalizing State; J.Goodman Globalization, Law and Transnational Corporations; C.Cutler Internationalization, Business Cleavages and Small Business Activism in Post-war Latin America; K.Shadlen Globalization, Political Opposition and the State in Latin America; J.Vadi PART THREE: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL POLICY MAKING Globalization, Internationalization and Change in Eco-Forest Policy in British Columbia; S.Bernstein & B.Cashore Domestic Institutions and Non-State Actors in Global Governance: Lessons from the 1979 Protocol Amending the Migratory Birds Convention; L.Juillet PART FOUR: SUBNATIONAL INITIATIVES 'Globalist' vs 'Globalized' Cities: Redefining Urban Responses to Globalization; P.Smith The Global Economy and the Local State; C.Leo PART FIVE: LABOUR AND THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION Globalization, Unemployment and the Redistribution of Working Time: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives; A.Molloy & J.Shields The Language of Organizing: Trade Union Strategy in International Perspective; C.Lipzig-Mumme Here to Stay? The 1998 Australian Waterfront Dispute and its Implications; J.Wiseman Index

About the Author :
THEODORE H. COHN is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. His main areas of teaching and research are international political economy; Canada - US - Mexico relations; and global cities. He has authored three books and written many articles in his research areas. - STEPHEN MCBRIDE is Professor and Chair at the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University. His books include Not Working: State Unemployment and Neo-Conservatism in Canada, (1992) and he is co-author of Dismantling a Nation, (1997). - JOHN WISEMAN is Associate Professor in the School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His most recent publication is Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation (1998).