Recreating Democracy in a Globalized State

This collection of essays on corporations, globalization and the state takes a radical look at the role of the state in globalization and its transformation thereby. It addresses such key questions as: What role is the state (in both the North and South) playing in its own rollback and demise? How has the emergence of global production chains facilitated the emergence of a transnational capitalist class? Do states still serve the interests of the people they govern, or do they now primarily serve the interests of global transnational capital? How can the struggle for democracy be realized in a globalized state? The contributors seek, in the context of the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement, to analyse why and how democracy might be achieved in globalized states. The editors and contributors are long-time social activists approaching the issues from the perspective of the global South. This collection is unique in that it includes work from and about Cuba in relation to the impact of globalization.

About the Author :
Orlando Cruz Capote holds a Doctorate in Historical Science. He is a researcher at the Instituto de Filosofia and its former scientific subdirectory from 2005-2008. He is Professor at the Higher Institute of International Relations Raul Roa Garcia. Cliff DuRand is a Research Associate at the Center for Global Justice, which he co-founded in 2004. Steve Martinot has been a human rights activist for most of his life, as union organizer, community organizer, and anti-war organizer. His latest book is The Machinery of Whiteness, from Temple University Press. Armando Cristobal Perez holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Havana. He has taught there as well as at the Higher Institute of International Relations. He has held diplomatic postings in Moscow and Madrid.. Olga Fernandez Rios is a Researcher at the Instituto de Filosofia and its former Director from 1988 to 1999. She was professor of Marxist studies and sociopolitical theory at the Central University in Villaclara and at the University of Habana. She has held diplomatic postings, first in the Cuban Mission at the UN in New York and for the last 10 years in the Cuban Interest Section in Washington DC and in the Cuban Embassy in Chile.

Review :
"This book passionately challenges the orthodoxies that legitimate neoliberal corporate globalization and explores the practices of direct democracy in social movements that prefigure the emergence of a more humane global commonwealth." (Christopher Chase-Dunn, world systems sociologist, author of Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy)"