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Mark's Research |
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An un-named Political Scientist activates the Hypothetron/Utilatron, a device for the detection of Political Truth developed at the University of Michigan/Rochester and operated under the auspices of the American Political Science Association. In nine out of ten trials, the Hypothetron/Utilatron told APSA that Liberal Democracy is best (the tenth time it said something about "trains running on time"). |
What is political science anyway?
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Globalization
and International Political Economy by Mark Rupert and Scott Solomon published by The politics of globalization include nation -states pursuing power, multinational firms seeking profits for their shareholders, coalitions and networks attempting to promote particular visions of future possible worlds, resistance groups ranging from the non-violent to the murderous, and ordinary people struggling to feed their families and secure their futures in a rapidly changing world. Globalization and International Political Economy examines processes of globalizing capitalism and the complex politics which are emerging from it--processes and struggles which will determine the shape of our world in the 21st century. This book was awarded the highest possible recommendation ("Essential") by Choice, a leading library review journal.
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Mark's second book, was published by Routledge in 2000.
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"Globalization" is neither natural nor inevitable; nor does the term itself have a singular and unproblematic referent. How - and indeed whether - globalization is to occur will depend upon the outcomes of political struggles some of which have already begun. Crucial to these struggles will be the social meanings attached to "globalization," the ideologies in terms of which it is assigned political significance, and the political projects which these ideologies envision and enable. I seek to provide in this study a critical interpretation of ideological and political struggles over the meaning and future of "globalization" especially as these have unfolded in the nexus between the US and the world political economy. In the United States -- the country which arguably has been most closely associated with this global project -- the social power and hegemonic vision of the liberal internationalist bloc was secured through historical structures of the postwar era which are increasingly problematic. It is in this more fluid context that counter-ideologies circulate through popular discourse, challenging the basic premises and the political implications of transnational liberalism. One family of such ideologies emphasizes American exceptionalism, understands globalization as a mortal threat to this special identity and its attendant privileges, and prescribes a circling of the wagons through economic, cultural, and racial/ethnic nationalisms. Another family of counter-ideologies understands globalization as both an opportunity and a danger: dangerous insofar as it extends, deepens and strengthens the anti-democratic structures of capitalism, globalization also entails new possibilities for those similarly subordinated and exploited under transnational capitalism to negotiate common ground, build relationships of solidarity across manifold socially significant differences, and create new social movements and institutions through which to construct a common future. Each of these political visions is active in the nexus between the US and the global political economy, drawing on the resources of popular common sense in order to address and mobilize political actors. In these and other similar struggles elsewhere, the future of the global political economy will be determined.
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My first book focused on the social relations of Fordism: Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass Production and American Global Power Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
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