Stephen J. Rosow - Globalization and Democracy

Globalization and Democracy

GLOBALIZATION

Series Editors

Manfred B. Steger

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

and University of HawaiiM a noa

and

Terrell Carver

University of Bristol

Globalization has become the buzzword of our time. But what does it mean? Rather than forcing a complicated social phenomenon into a single analytical framework, this series seeks to present globalization as a multidimensional process constituted by complex, often contradictory interactions of global, regional, and local aspects of social life. Since conventional disciplinary borders and lines of demarcation are losing their old rationales in a globalizing world, authors in this series apply an interdisciplinary framework to the study of globalization. In short, the main purpose and objective of this series is to support subject-specific inquiries into the dynamics and effects of contemporary globalization and its varying impacts across, between, and within societies.

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Supported by the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, Manoa

Globalization and Democracy

Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George

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Globalization and democracy / Stephen J. Rosow and Jim George.

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ISBN 978-1-4422-1808-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-1809-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-1810-9 (electronic) 1. DemocracyDeveloping countries. 2. DemocratizationDeveloping countries. 3. NeoliberalismDeveloping countries. 4. GlobalizationPolitical aspectsDeveloping countries. 5. Developing countriesPolitics and government. I. George, Jim, 1946 II. Title.

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Acknowledgments

I n many ways, this book got its start in the conversations between us over many years. I would like to thank Jim especially for sharing his work on the neoconservatives and on neoliberalism, which I have found especially inspiring. I thank him also for nominating me for a distinguished visiting professorship at Australian National University (ANU) in May and June 2011 and then for joining this project so enthusiastically. Many at ANUs School of Politics and International Relations created a welcoming, stimulating, and critical environment in which to work and willingly listened and commented upon early versions of ideas that have gone into this book. Special thanks to Michael McKinley, John Ravenhill, Tom Chodor, Guy Emerson (thanks again for the tour of Melbourne), and Barry Hindess, as well as those faculty and students who attended and commented on my lectures. While in Australia Manfred Steger and Anne McNevin graciously invited me to try out some of the ideas that went into this book at the Globalization program at the Global Cities Institute at RMIT. Without Manfreds invitation, and prodding, this book would not have happened.

I also owe a debt, collectively and individually, to an extraordinary group of scholars, interlocutors, friends, and fellow travelers of many years that can never be fully repaid. Danny Warner, Michael McKinley, Annette Freyborg-Inan, Judy Hemming, Peter Vale, and Clinton Fernandes have provided constant intellectual sustenance, friendship, and criticism of all of the thinking that I have brought to this book. To colleagues and students at the State University at Oswego, thanks for making it possible to work and think in spite of the neoliberalization of the university: Walter Opello, Bruce Altschuler, Craig Warkentin, Lisa Glidden, Stephon Boatwright, Miriam Jimenes, Jennie Han, and Christina Dragomire. I also thank the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and especially Michael Doyle, for hosting me during my sabbatical in 20122013, and SUNY Oswego for granting it. Finally, to Ellen Goldner, whose friendship, trust, forbearance, love, and critical thinking have sustained me for more than thirty years. I dedicate this book to Julian, Gabriel, and Ben, who are and will be harbingers of global worlds.

Stephen J. Rosow

I want to thank Steve for the invitation to join the project. It was an enjoyable and rewarding experience. It was particularly interesting for me because, after years of working on sometimes quite esoteric theoretical issues concerning the ways we think about and behave in the international-relations sphere, this book gave me the opportunity to concentrate on some specific empirical issuesin Africa, India, and Latin Americaand on the implications for peoples in these regions of adhering, simultaneously, to democratic politics and neoliberal economics. This has been a topic of conversation with many friends and colleagues in many places since the 1980s and the Thatcher/Reagan eras. In particular, Michael McKinley and I have sought to evaluate the implications for both global winners and losers in this context, and I thank Mike more generally for his friendship and always-stimulating perspectives on any number of issues. I also want to thank Tom Chodor and Guy Emerson for their insights on the Venezuela chapter in this book. I dedicate the work to my daughter Sara and brothers Alan, Frank, and Robert.