Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus

by David Held

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking book, one of the world's leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the western coalitions responded to the profound challenges of mass terrorism and political violence - alternatives which can better address the roots of these challenges and deliver political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745633536
• ISBN13: 9780745633534
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Globalisation and world poverty

This 2004 book studies globalisation and the World Trade Organisation. It takes into account the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the subsequent American responses in Afghanistan and Iraq. Held looks at the much-abused "root causes" in the developing world, and the extent that the terrorism reflects in fact a reaction against increasing globalisation. He posits that it might be possible to reduce global poverty through globalisation, with the aid of making some changes to international law. Certainly, not everyone will agree with the suggestions. But the book offers thoughtful ideas that an American audience might find worth contemplating; especially in a US federal election year, where foreign policy is one of the dominant themes.