Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Mirage of Global Justice
- The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
- International Aid: When Giving Becomes a Vice
- Responsibility and Global Justice: A Social Connection Model
- Process Values, International Law, and Justice
- What's Wrong with Imperialism?
- The Just War Idea: The State of the Question
- Humanitarian Military Intervention: Wars for the End of History?
- Collateral Benefit
- The Uneven Results of Institutional Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Culture
- Equality, Hierarchy, and Global Justice
- Feuding with the Past, Fearing the Future: Globalization as Cultural Metaphor for the Struggle between Nation-State and World-Economy
- Toward Global Republican Citizenship?
- Index
Feuding with the Past, Fearing the Future: Globalization as Cultural Metaphor for the Struggle between Nation-State and World-Economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Mirage of Global Justice
- The Law of Peoples, Social Cooperation, Human Rights, and Distributive Justice
- International Aid: When Giving Becomes a Vice
- Responsibility and Global Justice: A Social Connection Model
- Process Values, International Law, and Justice
- What's Wrong with Imperialism?
- The Just War Idea: The State of the Question
- Humanitarian Military Intervention: Wars for the End of History?
- Collateral Benefit
- The Uneven Results of Institutional Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Culture
- Equality, Hierarchy, and Global Justice
- Feuding with the Past, Fearing the Future: Globalization as Cultural Metaphor for the Struggle between Nation-State and World-Economy
- Toward Global Republican Citizenship?
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
No sooner has the issue of globalism been elevated into a general proposition of paradigmatic dimensions, than its death has been declared. In Harper's, the journalist John Ralston Saul states simply enough that not only is there a “collapse of globalism,” but also a “rebirth of nationalism.” He is only the most recent to post an obituary. My own sense of the situation is that the language of “tendencies,” “strains,” and “forces” better represents reality than the heated rhetoric of “birth” and “death.” The international economy is not reduced to rubble by ideological missives, nor has the national state been dissolved by the recognition that the world is whole, round, and virtually boundless.
Globalization has been perceived either as the latest and most pernicious form of imperialism or as the latest form of modernization. Whatever position one takes on globalization—whether one is in mute support or unabated opposition—it is clear that globalization has become not just a thing unto itself, but a metaphor of fundamental values of peoples and systems alike. My purpose here is to examine how this term has become part of the polarization of the American culture. The controversy over globalization has become a struggle over the shaping of the world's economy, but it is also a political and cultural struggle. In this process, old battles between political systems and economic structures have acquired new dimensions.
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- Justice and Global Politics , pp. 266 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006