Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism

Globalization involves structural changes in forms of state, society and culture, ecology and political economy and in ethics and expectations. In this IPE Classic, globalization and multilateralism are linked to questions of epistemology, ontology, and strategy, with a new Foreword and Preface. Epistemology entails critical questioning of the nature of knowledge and its foundations. Ontology concerns the significant factors in global political economy. Strategy involves how to move world affairs from its present condition towards normative goals enunciated in the MUNS programme, so as to promote collective ability to channel structural change in a more democratic direction.

Stephen Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was elected Distinguished Scholar in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association (2006). His publications include: The Global Political Economy (with David Law, 1988); American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (1991 & 2009); Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (1993 & 2010); Power, Production and Social Reproduction (with Isabella Bakker, 2003); Power and Resistance in the New World Order (2003 & 2008) and Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership (2011).