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Saving Globalization


Saving Globalization

Why Globalization and Democracy Offer the Best Hope for Progress, Peace and Development
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von: Mike Moore

17,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 09.11.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781118179291
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 200

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Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it’s a process that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, travelled and traded.  It can’t be stopped but it can be slowed.  It came to a grinding halt in August 1914 and the Marxist detour cost millions of lives and lost three generations their opportunity and hope in many countries.  More wealth has been created in the past 60 years than in all of history.  After the most successful decade of sustained economic growth in history, this progress is threatened.  <p>Extreme inequality, corruption and environmental degradation threaten the stability and legitimacy of many developing countries’ regimes.  Anti-globalization and anti-capitalist campaigners’ confidence has been emboldened due to the present economic crisis.  Protectionist rhetoric is growing as are the arguments to control and regulate markets.  Leaders are meeting to discuss how to face these problems and create a new international architecture.  How did we get to this position? What should we do?  What is it that determines why some contemporary states are successful while others have failed?</p> <p><b><i>Saving Globalization</i></b> departs from its analysis of the globalised economy in the twenty-first century to answer these question by tracing the development of what Moore considers to be ‘the big ideas of history’: democracy, independent courts, the separation of church and state, property rights, independent courts, a professional civil service, and civil society. Democratic capitalism has worked for most people.  Why?  It is a remarkable story, from the Greeks to the Geeks, encompassing technological progress and the corrections and contradictions between liberty and equality, technology, growth and the environment.  In defence of the many virtues and opportunities that globalisation offers, Mike Moore makes the case for a fresh and new approach to our international Institutions and for domestic policies that promote equity and fairness.</p> <p>The book controversially attacks the new enemies of reason and evidence. The threats now come from all sides, especially workers in developed countries who fear for their jobs.  Mike Moore is a political practitioner turned theoretician.</p>
<b>Foreword.</b> <p><b>Preface.</b></p> <p><b>Acknowledgments.</b></p> <p><b>Introduction.</b></p> <p><b>A Note About Terminology.</b></p> <p><b>Part 1: THE WORLD TODAY.</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 1:</b> Accelerating Change and the Threat of De-Globalization.</p> <p><b>Chapter 2:</b> The Rise and Rise of China.</p> <p><b>Chapter 3:</b> Enter India.</p> <p><b>Chapter 4:</b> The Islamic World: The Need for Mutual Respect.</p> <p><b>Part 2: BIG IDEAS THROUGH HISTORY.</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 5:</b> Early Consensus Government.</p> <p><b>Chapter 6:</b> Democracy—A Universal Impulse?</p> <p><b>Chapter 7:</b> The Gift of Greece.</p> <p><b>Chapter 8:</b> <i>"Civis Romanus Sum":</i> Roman Citizenship and Roman Law.</p> <p><b>Chapter 9:</b> The Glorious Revolution: Freedom in the Seventeenth Century.</p> <p><b>Chapter 10:</b> Magna Carta and Beyond.</p> <p><b>Chapter 11:</b> Revolution and Reform: 1775–1914.</p> <p><b>Chapter 12:</b> Modern International Institutions.</p> <p><b>Part 3: THE PILLARS OF FREEDOM AND PROGRESS.</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 13:</b> The Need for Good Governance.</p> <p><b>Chapter 14:</b> Openness.</p> <p><b>Chapter 15:</b> Free Trade.</p> <p><b>Chapter 16:</b> A New Democracy.</p> <p><b>Chapter 17:</b> Mobility and the Decent Society.</p> <p><b>Part 4: ENEMIES OF THE OPEN SOCIETY.</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 18:</b> Power and Manipulation.</p> <p><b>Chapter 19:</b> The Dangers of Absolute Conviction.</p> <p><b>Chapter 20:</b> The Enemies of Reason.</p> <p><b>Part 5: AFTERTHOUGHTS AND RECONSIDERATIONS.</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 21:</b> Information and Reputation.</p> <p><b>Chapter 22:</b> Engagement in a Rapidly Changing World.</p> <p><b>Chapter 23:</b> American Engagement.</p> <p><b>Chapter 24:</b> Climate Change and the Energy Challenge.</p> <p><b>Chapter 25:</b> What We Must Do.</p> <p><b>Endnotes.</b></p> <p><b>Index.</b></p>
<b>Mike Moore</b> is a former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and former prime minister, foreign minister, trade minister and deputy finance minister of New Zealand. He has been honored by over 16 governments and universities in the Americas, Africa, the Pacific and Europe. As Director-General of the WTO, the Doha Development Trade Round was launched and China joined the WTO. He serves on a number of commercial boards and is an Adjunct and Visiting Professor at several universities in a number of countries. He served on the UN Commission for the Legal Empowerment of the Poor and the UN Commission on Migration. As CEO of the Moore Group, he has advised governments and businesses worldwide, specializing in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is involved with a number of think tanks and developmental groups, including the Global Leadership Foundation. In 2010 he intends to launch a new organization that will help fund schools in developing countries. Mike Moore is a political practioner turned theoretician and <i>Saving</i> <i>Globalization</i> is his tenth book.<br /> www.mike-moore.info
"<i>Saving Globalization</i> provides an eloquent and persuasive defense of liberal democracy at a time when democratic values are embattled and scoffed at by some, under-valued and taken for granted by others. Mike Moore’s insights are relentlessly sensible, brilliantly presented, and sure to infuriate those who have concluded that democracy is either inefficient or unfashionable. I expect this welcome book to serve for years to come as an arsenal of facts for advocates of democracy and development."<br /> <b>—Madeleine K. Albright</b>, US Secretary of State, 1997-2001 <p>"If we accept that wealth is man-made, then we must accept that poverty is man-made too, therefore it can be fixed by man. If democracy is the voice of God, then Mike Moore is democracy's gift to the world. If anti-globalizers brand him as "starving the poor," I think of him as feeding the poor. I have never seen a bigger proponent for a more open society and global economy than Mike Moore. In <i>Saving Globalization</i>, Mike recalls his works and inspirations in helping to make this world a better place in which to live. He explains why he is convinced that globalization is the most effective way to deal with poverty and offers convincing arguments on why we should embrace a world without walls and not be afraid of it."<br /> <b>—Jose Ramos-Horta</b>, President of Timor-Leste; Nobel Peace Prize 1996</p> <p>"In his new, important and timely book, <i>Saving Globalization</i>, Mike Moore shares with us his enormous wealth of experience gained during 30 years in public life. It is a book that should be read by anyone who cares about the future of our present civilization."<br /> <b>—Vaclav Havel</b>, President of Czechoslovakia (1990–1993) and Czech Republic (1993–2003)</p> <p>"The biggest of ideas are sometimes the simplest. In our daily quest to expand our horizons and increase our wealth we sometimes forget that. In this book, Mike Moore is taking us back to basics. He reminds us that a world without walls cannot function peacefully if it is a world without rules, standards and values and that global consumer democracy will quickly punish companies and countries that do not behave ethically. Mike reinforces the idea that open democratic societies, run by the rule of law, with accountable leaders, honest public servants and engaged civil society, produce the best results. It is a strong message delivered in the proper direction. Mike’s ideas reinforce our hope for a better future where doing it right is the name of the game."<br /> <b>—Medhat Hassanein</b>, Minister of Finance, Egypt (1999–2004); Professor, Department of Management, School of Business, Economics & Communication, The American University in Cairo</p> <p>"The book is the measure of the man. In turn, trade unionist, successful politician and energetic international civil servant, Mike Moore is an autodidact who has always tried to make a positive difference. In this work, he defends the universal principles of liberty, democracy, openness and rules-governed international cooperation against their many enemies. What is at stake, he insists, are neither exclusively western values nor narrowly western interests. These values are vital for everybody. They must be successfully upheld, both within and among the nations of the world."<br /> <b>—Martin Wolf</b>, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, <i>Financial Times</i></p>

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