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Title: Predatory Globalization: A Critique by Richard Falk ISBN: 0-7456-0936-8 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Summary: Critique of Falk's Critique on Predatory Globalization
Comment: Predatory Globalization is a book mainly about the normative-legal changes caused by the increasing economic and political integration of nation states, or globalization. According to the author, globalization is not the incessant, all encompassing domination of markets and US hegemony voiced by many of its critics. If anything, globalization is the attempt of US and market interests to dominate in the world, but generating all but their global dominance. Nation states are increasingly less capable to maintain order within their own borders as the power of multinational capital -backed by the dominating WTO-IMF-World Bank institutions-- bully national states to change their internal governance structures to fit the needs of global capital. However, globalization is also creating internationally accepted standards in the field of human rights, notions of sustainable development, strengthening accountability (the rule of law and personal responsibility), among other things. The author believes that if common people build political campaigns over these cosmopolitan legal values and norms, then there can be a globalization "from below" that effectively tackles problems caused by globalization "from above."
Many accounts of globalization, especially those by radical right and left wing pundits argue that globalization is essentially evil and rapacious. Falk thus shows that such claims of globalization are terribly one sided. Globalization creates a number of normative instruments that can be used by common people to combat the negative aspects of globalization.
Recent events show that professor Falk is certainly correct in many of his claims. For instance, the recent attempts by human rights activists to bring the Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, to justice in a Spanish court shows that some sort of international human rights law is solidifying, helping victims of torture and oppression. The current attempt by Rigoberta Menchú to do the same against Guatemalan military leaders shows similar proof of Falk's thesis. The successes of environmental organizations such as Green Peace also show that worldwide environmental values are on the upswing.
One problem with Faulk's argument is found as early as in Chapter 1 -diagnosing the problem. How real is globalization? To what extent are countries more integrated today than 10, 20 or 30 years ago? How much strength have nation states really lost? To this question the author has no solid answer, thus the reader remains either skeptical of the reality of globalization from above or below presented by the author, or then accepts the author's depiction of globalization at face value. Both choices left to the reader by Falk are increasingly unacceptable given the urgent need to understand the economic and political changes occurring in global society. Although a good stab in creating a more balanced approach to globalization, further empirical work on the extent of the phenomenon at hand is required
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