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1 International Political Economy Series General Editor: Timothy M. Shaw, Professor of Commonwealth Governance and Development, and Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London Titles include: Hans Abrahamsson UNDERSTANDING WORLD ORDER AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE Poverty, Conflict and the Global Arena Sandra Braman (editor) THE EMERGENT GLOBAL INFORMATION POLICY REGIME James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis TURBULENCE AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Elizabeth De Boer-Ashworth THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND POST-1989 CHANGE The Place of the Central European Transition Bill Dunn GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING AND THE POWER OF LABOUR Myron J. Frankman WORLD DEMOCRATIC FEDERALISM Peace and Justice Indivisible Helen A. Garten US FINANCIAL REGULATION AND THE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD Randall D. Germain (editor) GLOBALIZATION AND ITS CRITICS Perspectives from Political Economy Barry K. Gills (editor) GLOBALIZATION AND THE POLITICS OF RESISTANCE Richard Grant and John Rennie Short (editors) GLOBALIZATION AND THE MARGINS Graham Harrison (editor) GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS International Political Economy, Development and Globalization Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili (editors) CONFRONTING GLOBALIZATION Humanity, Justice and the Renewal of Politics Axel Hülsemeyer (editor) GLOBALIZATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Convergence or Divergence? Helge Hveem and Kristen Nordhaug (editors) PUBLIC POLICY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION Responses to Environmental and Economic Crises

2 Takashi Inoguchi GLOBAL CHANGE A Japanese Perspective Jomo K.S. and Shyamala Nagaraj (editors) GLOBALIZATION VERSUS DEVELOPMENT Dominic Kelly and Wyn Grant (editors) THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE 21st CENTURY Actors, Issues and Regional Dynamics Craig N. Murphy (editor) EGALITARIAN POLITICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION Michael Niemann A SPATIAL APPROACH TO REGIONALISM IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Morten Ougaard THE GLOBALIZATION OF POLITICS Power, Social Forces and Governance Markus Perkmann and Ngai-Ling Sum GLOBALIZATION, REGIONALIZATION AND CROSS-BORDER REGIONS Leonard Seabrooke US POWER IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE The Victory of Dividends Timothy J. Sinclair and Kenneth P. Thomas (editors) STRUCTURE AND AGENCY IN INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY Fredrik Söderbaum and Timothy M. Shaw (editors) THEORIES OF NEW REGIONALISM A Palgrave Reader Amy Verdun EUROPEAN RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION AND FINANCIAL MARKET INTEGRATION Perceptions of Economic and Monetary Union in Britain, France and Germany International Political Economy Series Series Standing Order ISBN hardback Series Standing Order ISBN paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England

3 Confronting Globalization Humanity, Justice and the Renewal of Politics Edited by Patrick Hayden Senior Lecturer in Political Theory Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand and Chamsy el-ojeili Lecturer in Sociology Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand

4 Editorial matter, selection and Chapter 1 Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili 2005 Individual chapters (in order) Peter Beilharz, Roger Deacon, James Brassett and Federico Merke, Barry Smart, François Debrix, Michael A. Peters, Mark Evans, Luis Cabrera, Timothy W. Luke, Douglas Kellner, Martin Weber, Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey, Manfred B. Steger, Darrel Moellendorf, Daniele Archibugi 2005 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act First published 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Confronting globalization : humanity, justice, and the renewal of politics / edited by Patrick Hayden, Chamsy el-ojeili. p. cm. (International political economy series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN Globalization. 2. Globalization Social aspects. I. Hayden, Patrick. II. El-Ojeili, Chamsy. III. Series. JZ1318C dc

5 Contents Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations vii xii 1 Confronting Globalization in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction 1 Patrick Hayden and Chamsy el-ojeili Part I Understanding Globalization s Challenges: Post-Marxism and Beyond 2 Postmodern Socialism Revisited 23 Peter Beilharz 3 Despotic Enlightenment: Rethinking Globalization after Foucault 34 Roger Deacon 4 Just Deconstruction? Derrida and Global Ethics 50 James Brassett and Federico Merke 5 Empowering the Powerful, Enriching the Rich: On Neoliberalism, Economic Globalization and Social Criticism 68 Barry Smart 6 Tricky Business: Challenging Risk Theory and its Vision of a Better Global Future 84 François Debrix Part II Reconceptualizing Citizenship, Democracy and Human Rights under Globalization 7 Between Empires: Rethinking Identity and Citizenship in the Context of Globalization 105 Michael A. Peters 8 Human Rights, Moral Articulacy and Democratic Dynamism: In Defence of Normative Philosophy 123 Mark Evans v

6 vi Contents 9 The Other Side of Obligation: Cosmopolitan Distributive Justice and Duties of the Less Affluent 139 Luis Cabrera 10 Environmentalism as Globalization from Above and Below: Can World Watchers Truly Represent the Earth? 154 Timothy W. Luke 11 Globalization, Terrorism and Democracy: 9/11 and its Aftermath 172 Douglas Kellner Part III Rethinking Globalization, Resistance and Transformative Politics 12 Alter-Globalization and Social Movements: Towards Understanding Transnational Politicization 191 Martin Weber 13 Horizontals, Verticals and the Conflicting Logics of Transformative Politics 208 Andrew Robinson and Simon Tormey 14 American Globalism Madison Avenue-Style : A Critique of US Public Diplomacy after 9/ Manfred B. Steger 15 Global Justice, the World Trade Organization and Free Trade 242 Darrel Moellendorf 16 A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Self-Determination of Peoples 258 Daniele Archibugi Index 275

7 Notes on the Contributors Daniele Archibugi is a Director of the Italian National Research Council. He has worked at the Universities of Sussex, Naples, Cambridge and Rome. In he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and in he was Lauro De Bosis Professor at Harvard University. He works on globalization, technological change and the political theory of international relations. He is an adviser to the European Commission, the OECD and several UN specialized agencies, and has worked on the reform of international organizations. Among his publications in the field of political theory, he has co-edited Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order (1995) and Re-Imagining Political Community: Studies in Cosmopolitan Democracy (1998), and edited Debating Cosmopolitics (2003). Peter Beilharz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory at La Trobe University in Australia. He was Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University in , and William Dean Howells Fellow at Harvard in He is Faculty Associate in Sociology at Yale University. He has published twenty books, including Imagining the Antipodes (1997), Zygmunt Bauman (1999), and most recently Postwar American Critical Thought (2005). He is now working on a major project tracking the antipodes across the twentieth century. James Brassett is a research student at the University of Warwick based in the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. His work covers theories of globalization, international political economy and ethics with a special focus on the normative possibilities presented by global civil society. He has co-authored an article with Richard Higgott, Building the Normative Dimension(s) of a Global Polity, in Review of International Studies (2003). Luis Cabrera is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University West. He has published articles on cosmopolitan distributive justice and global political integration, and he is the author of Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State (2004). vii

8 viii Notes on the Contributors Roger Deacon is Honorary Research Fellow in Human and Social Studies and Honorary Lecturer in Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and managing editor of Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory. He publishes in the fields of political philosophy, the history of ideas and educational theory, and his most recent publication is Fabricating Foucault (2003). His current research interests are in the origins of early modern education, and the art and politics of war. François Debrix is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. His publications include Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology (1999), Language, Agency and Politics in a Constructed World (2003, editor), and Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning (2003, co-editor). His work in the domains of international relations theory, postmodern theory and culture, and critical world order studies has been published in journals such as Alternatives, Geopolitics, New Political Science, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Postmodern Culture, Strategies and Third World Quarterly. He is currently working on a new book-length manuscript that explores the politics of fear-making in the transnational polity through a critical analysis of the mad cow crisis. Chamsy el-ojeili is Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of From Left Communism to Postmodernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse (2003), and co-editor of New Zealand Sociology. Mark Evans is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism (2001), Ethics in International Relations: New Directions (2004), Just War Theory: A Reappraisal (2005) and Liberal Justifications (2005). He is associate editor of Politics and Ethics Review. His research interests include human rights, international ethics, the ethics of individual character in liberalism, and the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory in the analysis of moral and political problems. Patrick Hayden is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Politics and Ethics Review. His publications include Cosmopolitan Global Politics (2005), America s War on Terror (2003, co-editor), John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order (2002), and The Philosophy of Human Rights (2001). His research interests include international ethics and human rights, theories of war and peace, democratic theory, and the

9 Notes on the Contributors ix application of social and political theory to the study of international relations and global politics. Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film (with Michael Ryan); Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (with Steven Best); Television and the Crisis of Democracy; The Persian Gulf TV War; Media Culture; and The Postmodern Turn (with Steven Best). Recent books include Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and the Theft of an Election, The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium (with Steve Best), and September 11, Terror War, and the Dangers of the Bush Legacy. Timothy W. Luke is Programme Chair, Government and International Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs, and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Institute Polytechnic and State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Museum Pieces: Power Plays at the Exhibition (2002), Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx (1999), Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy and Culture (1997), and Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent and Revolution (1990). Federico Merke is a PhD candidate at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires. He received his first degree from the Universidad del Salvador before studying at the University of Warwick where he attained an MA in International Studies. He is Deputy Director of Academic Affairs at the Argentine Council for International Relations and teaches International Relations Theory at the Universidad del Salvador. He recently published the article, Entre el 9/11 y el 11/9: Debates y Perspectivas sobre el Cambio en las Relaciones Internacionales, in Foro Internacional (2004). Darrel Moellendorf is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the author of several articles and chapters in books, as well as Cosmopolitan Justice (2002). Additionally, he has guest co-edited special issues of Developing World Bioethics (with Michael Selgelid) on resource distribution and Journal of Ethics (with Gillian Brock) on global justice. A reprint of the latter will be published in 2005 in book form.

10 x Notes on the Contributors Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Glasgow and the University of Auckland. He has research interests in educational theory and policy, and in contemporary philosophy, and has published many articles and books on these topics. Andrew Robinson is an activist based in Derby, UK, and a part-time tutor in the School of Politics, University of Nottingham. He recently submitted his doctoral thesis on the work of John Rawls having graduated with a First and Distinction in his BA and MA studies. His research focuses on social exclusion and oppressive discourse in contemporary political thought. He has published numerous scholarly articles and has extensive research and writing interests, including populism, postcolonial theory, Marxism and social constructions of delinquency and madness. Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. His books include Foucault, Marxism, and Critique (1983), Michel Foucault (1988), Modern Conditions: Postmodern Controversies (1991), Postmodernity (1992), Facing Modernity (1999), and Economy, Culture, and Society (2003). Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University and Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai i-manoa. He has written widely on ideologies of globalization, theories of non-violence and international politics. His book, Globalism: The New Market Ideology (2003) won the 2003 Michael Harrington Award of the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association and a new edition was published in Simon Tormey is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of numerous books and articles including Making Sense of Tyranny: Interpretations of Totalitarianism (1995), Agnes Heller: Socialism, Autonomy and the Postmodern (2001), Anti-Capitalism (2004), and Exploring Post-Marxisms (2005). He is series editor for Reappraising the Political with Manchester University Press (with Jon Simons) and on the editorial board of Contemporary Political Theory. His recent work concerns globalization and resistance, postmodern and neo-marxian theory, and the work of Wittgenstein, Deleuze and Guattari. Martin Weber is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His research interests are in international

11 Notes on the Contributors xi political theory/critical theory, green political thought, social movements in world politics, and international political economy. Among his publications are Competing Political Visions: WTO Governance and Green Politics (Global Environmental Politics, 2001); Engaging Globalization: Critical Theory and Global Political Change (Alternatives, 2002); The Politics of Global Health Governance: Whatever Happened to Health for All by the Year 2000? (with C. Thomas, Global Governance, 2004); and The Critical Social Theory of the Frankfurt School, and the Social Turn in IR (Review of International Studies, 2005).

12 List of Abbreviations BE FBI FDI FTAA GATS GATT GDP GIF IMF IPCC IPSs IR IT MFN MGJ NAFTA NATO NGO NSF NSMs OECD PPP TRIPS TU UN UNCTAD UNDP USIA WHO WSF WTO Biocomplexity in the Environment Federal Bureau of Investigation Foreign Direct Investment Free Trade Area of the Americas General Agreement on Trade in Services General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Gross Domestic Product Group-in-Fusion International Monetary Fund Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change International Public Spheres International Relations Information Technology Most Favoured Nation Movement for Global Justice North American Free Trade Agreement North Atlantic Treaty Organization Non-Governmental Organization National Science Foundation New Social Movements Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Purchasing Power Parity Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Thin Universalism United Nations United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Development Programme United States Information Agency World Health Organization World Social Forum World Trade Organization xii