Globalization in Crisis

This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate.

Written by some of the world's leading international scholars in the field of Globalization studies and related disciplines, this important collection addresses numerous key aspects of the relationship between Globalization and global crises, past, present, and future. It sheds new light and understanding on the concept and theory of Globalization and of `crisis'. The authors explore such issues as global finance and financial regulation, neoliberal ideology and policy, the `crisis of globalization', the decline of Western hegemony, world systemic crisis, the moral crisis of `Western capitalism', environmental and climate change crises, world order, hyper-violence and the international system, a crisis of the `global modern' and a global civilisational crisis, the rise of the global South, the historical dialectics of capital and social responses to crisis, the future of capitalism and the prospects for transformative alternatives.

Barry K. Gills is Professor of Global Politics at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon-lyne, UK. He is the founding Editor of Globalizations journal and the "Rethinking Globalizations" book series from Routlodge. Dr. Gills is also a founding Editor of the Review of Informational Political Economy. A former fellow of the Transnational Institute. Amsterdam, and present fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, he has published widely in the fields of critical Globalization Studies, world system theory, global history, and Critical Development Studies. His recent works include Globalization and Global History (2006, with William R. Thompson) and Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice (2008).