Left and Right in Global Politics

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Politics

Table of contents

- Cover (Page 1)
- Half-title (Page 3)
- Title (Page 5)
- Copyright (Page 6)
- Contents (Page 7)
- Tables (Page 8)
- Figures (Page 9)
- Acknowledgements (Page 10)
- Introduction (Page 13)
- 1 A clash over equality (Page 18)
- Left and right in global politics (Page 20)
- Contrasting worldviews (Page 31)
- Isn't global politics more complex? (Page 38)
- Conclusion (Page 42)
- 2 A worldwide value divide (Page 44)
- A universal divide (Page 45)
- Divided over equality (Page 54)
- Civilization divides? (Page 59)
- Conclusion (Page 66)
- 3 Two tales of globalization (Page 68)
- The world of the satisfied (Page 69)
- The world of the critics (Page 81)
- Conclusion (Page 93)
- 4 The rise of the modern state system(1776-1945) (Page 95)
- Democracy (Page 96)
- Peace and war (Page 101)
- Capitalism and socialism (Page 107)
- The colonial enterprise (Page 113)
- Conclusion (Page 118)
- 5 The age of universality (1945-1980) (Page 119)
- The mixed economy (Page 121)
- The welfare state (Page 129)
- The East-West divide (Page 134)
- The North-South conflict (Page 140)
- Conclusion (Page 147)
- 6 The triumph of market democracy (1980-2007) (Page 149)
- Monetarism (Page 151)
- Neoliberalism (Page 159)
- The marginalization of the North-South debate (Page 164)
- A new development agenda (Page 170)
- Conclusion (Page 176)
- 7 Twenty-first-century rapprochement (Page 178)
- A renewed left (Page 181)
- The Third Way (Page 187)
- The new development consensus (Page 193)
- Still the left and the right (Page 199)
- Conclusion (Page 207)
- 8 The core currency of political exchange (Page 210)
- Emerging global issues (Page 211)
- The politics of identity (Page 211)
- The war on terrorism (Page 217)
- The global environmental debate (Page 222)
- Left and right in the study of politics (Page 227)
- Conclusion (Page 241)
- Conclusion (Page 243)
- Index (Page 248)