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How to Rule The World
The Coming Battle over the Global Economy
Mark Engler
April 2008
ISBN: 1568583656
Laying out a new and original framework for understanding globalization politics, Mark Engler describes the conflict between a Clinton-era vision of an expanding, corporate-controlled global economy and a Bush-era "imperial globalization" based on U.S. military dominance. How to Rule the World explains how these visions overlap and also how, at critical moments, they clash with one another.
It is written, however, in the hopes that neither will prevail. Even as Wall Street CEOs and Washington militarists argue among themselves, citizens' uprisings in the United States, in an increasingly progressive Latin America, and beyond are bringing to life a vibrant "democratic globalization" based on economic justice, human rights, and self-determination.
Engler details how the Bush administration has reshaped globalization in ways that few protesters in Seattle or elsewhere could have foreseen: global trade talks are collapsing. The roles of international institutions like the WTO, IMF, and World Bank are dramatically changing. U.S. unilateralism and the disastrous war in Iraq have deepened international divisions. As a result, the stage is now set for a critical new debate about the global economy.
What readers are saying
"Well-considered, revisionist analysis of the fierce debate about the future of our world economy...most readers will find his views stimulating... [and] his arguments will win many readers' sympathy."
--Kirkus Reviews, February 2008
"Fasten your seatbelt. You're in for a ride that will change your understanding of where we've been, what's really going on now, and what's coming next. If you want to know 'what ever happened to the anti-globalization movement,' why it is likely to roar back as a powerful force in world politics, and why it may make another world possible, don't miss this unique and indispensable guide."
--Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!, Global Village or Global Pillage, and Globalization from Below
"As the world readies to heave a collective sigh of relief upon George W. Bush's exit from the White House, How to Rule the World is a caution against complacency. Mark Engler offers a timely reminder that before Bush's boots and bombs there was Clinton's corporate 'consensus'--more soothing perhaps but no more sustainable than the neocons' disastrous militarism. He then makes a case that there lies a third choice: democracy. Impressively researched and sharply argued, How to Rule the World is an essential handbook not for the few who do rule the world but for the many who should."
--Greg Grandin, author of Empire's Workshop
"Full of passion, hope, and insight, How to Rule the World assures us that the future of globalization is not a foregone conclusion. Rejecting both the imperial behemoth and the leviathan of corporate rule, Mark Engler weaves disparate movements and burgeoning efforts in far flung corners of the globe together to show the strong, tensile strands of a democratic alternative--a globalization from below that has the power to shape the post-Bush era."
--Frida Berrigan, New America Foundation, Arms and Security Initiative
"This is one of the most hopeful and challenging progressive books to be written in a long time. Global elites, it turns out, are no more cohesive than, say, the crime families of New York, and perhaps a good deal less so. As the fault lines among those who have ruled the world for the past few decades become ever more clear, the time is upon us to finally follow up on Seattle and to bring democracy home. Never was a book more timely."
--Andy Bichlbaum, activist, The Yes Men
About the Authors
Mark Engler is a writer based in New York City and an analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. His articles have appeared in Dissent, Newsday, The Progressive, the San Francisco Chronicle, and In These Times.
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