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For more than a century and a half the mostpowerful national governments havecreated institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a moreinclusive world a world serving women working people the colonized thebackward the destitute and the despised. This book is a study of thatpromise and the real impact of this world government.Global Institutions Marginalization and Development discusses what systems ofglobal institutions have done and what they have not done to keep theirpromise to the truly disadvantaged. It examines whether the system will servethe worlds least advantaged or marginalize them further.The future will largely be determined by the understanding of the globalpolitical economy developed by the worlds most powerful peoplecorporateleaders and government officials in the strongest states. Their worldviews inturn will be influenced both by the political action and the ideas of socialmovements and by the views of those who study the global political economy.Whether it is the economists and political philosophers or the socialmovements of the disadvantaged that are most likely to influence the worldslawmakers and the processes by which they will complete the next generation ofmultilateral institutions are the central topic of this book.Key content includes World Organizations and Human Needs Liberal Internationalism Social Movements and Liberal World Orders Political Consequences of the New Inequality Leadership and Global Governance for the information age Marginalization and the PrivilegedThis book is important reading for anyone with an interest ininternationalpolitical economy global governance development and the politicsof north south. «
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