The book critically explores the complex processes of deindustrialization and its significant role in shaping deep political issues. It connects this phenomenon to right-wing populism, contemporary geopolitical tensions with China, Brexit, and initiatives like the New Green Deal and levelling up. By analyzing these interconnections, it sheds light on how economic shifts influence political landscapes and societal responses.
Ray Kiely examines the conservative anti-globalization that has manifested
itself in recent years as a nostalgia for a former supposed age of economic
and societal harmony and which has informed popular mantras of deregulation
and economic nationalism.
Neo-Liberalism, the Third Way and Anti-globalization
322 pages
12 hours of reading
This work addresses the politics of globalisation through an examination of neo-liberalism, the third way, and anti-capitalist responses and alternatives. It utilises a Marxist approach, not only to challenge the claims made by apologists for 'actually existing globalisation', but to explain, contextualise and problematise the rise of anti-globalisation politics. Central to the work is a critique of globalisation theory, neo-liberalism and the third way; an examination of the role of the state as an agent of globalisation, particularly the hegemonic US state; a theorisation of the nature of uneven development in the global order; and an examination of the political implications of these issues for progressive alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation. Ray Kiely, Ph.D. (1991) in Sociology, University of Warwick, is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He has published widely in the fields of globalisation and development, including Sociology and Development (UCL Press, 1995) and The Ends of Globalisation: US Hegemony and the Globalist Project (forthcoming, 2005).
