Globalisation as democratic theory

Millenium

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-44

  Rosow, Stephen J ^a  

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1. An explicit argument to this effect is made in John Dunn, 'Political Science, Political Theory and Policy-Making in an Interdependent World', Government and Opposition 28, no. 2 (1993): 242-60.
2. See also R.B.J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
3. Philip G. Cerny, 'Globalisation and Other Stories: The Search for a New Paradigm for International Relations', International Journal 51, no. 4 (1996): 617-37.
4. James H. Mittelman, 'The Dynamics of Globalisation,' in Globalisation: Critical Reflections, ed. James H. Mittelman (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996), 1-19.
5. See David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995),
6. David Held and Anthony McGrew, 'Globalisation and the Liberal Democratic State', Government and Opposition 28, no. 2 (1993): 261-88.
7. See Saskia Sassen, Globalisation and its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money (New York: New Press, 1998).
8. On the linkage between spectacle and consumerism see especially Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Zone Books, 1995).
9. For an account of global capitalism which uses Michael Jordan as symbol and hinge, see Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and Global Capitalism (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999).
10. Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America (New York: Harper and Row, 1982).
11. Robert W. Cox, 'A Perspective on Globalisation', in Globalisation: Critical Reflections, 21-30.
12. Claire Turenne Sjolander, 'The Rhetoric of Globalisation: What's in a Wor(l)d?', International Journal 51, no. 4 (1996): 603-16.
13. Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy (London: Harper Collins, 1990).
14. Sjolander, 'The Rhetoric of Globalisation'.
15. See Sassen, Globalisation and its Discontents.
16. Neoliberalism establishes the individual as the site of government regulation, continuing the practice of earlier forms of capitalism and of the welfare state, while asserting the determination of the structure of the world economy (the demands of 'competitiveness') when setting trade, monetary, and industrial policy. Put more substantively, neoliberal globalisation argues that competitiveness is now globally structured and that the conditions of capital accumulation are inevitably and necessarily global. This privatisation of individual responsibility then connects up with the feminisation of work in the global sector and the constructing of the poor as other, a potentially hostile, backward, dirty force to be kept at bay. See also Sjolander, 'The Rhetoric of Globalisation', 614-15 n. 10.
17. Stephen Gill, 'Globalisation, Market Civilisation, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 24, no. 3 (1995): 399-423.
18. John Ruggie's, 'At Home Abroad, Abroad at Home: International Liberalisation and Domestic Stability in the New World Economy', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 24, no. 3 (1994): 507-26, similarly situates neoliberal globalisation within the legitimation problematic of the capitalist state, although without the Gramscian framework of Gill.
19. Embedded liberalism (Ruggie's term for the state/society complex of the post-World War II political economy) is inappropriate to the institutional and political challenges of the world economy of the 1980s and 90s but has not yet been replaced by another set of compromises and institutional arrangements which are able to hold the allegiances of economic and political managers, let alone the societies to whom they would be accountable. For a somewhat different account of globalisation as entailing a normative crisis of the late capitalist state, see Philip G. Cerny, 'Paradoxes of the Competition State: The Dynamics of Political Globalisation', Government and Opposition 32. no. 2 (1997): 251-74.
20. Gill, 'Globalisation', 399.
21. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 401-2.
22. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 405, emphasis in original.
23. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 407.
24. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 412.
25. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 416.
26. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 417.
27. Gill, Globalisation Ibid., 417-18.
28. Samuel P. Huntington, 'The Clash of Civilizations', Foreign Affairs 72, no. 4 (1993): 22-49.
29. See Richard Falk, 'State of Siege: Will Globalisation Win Out?', International Affairs 73, no. 1 (1997): 128-29.
30. Walker, Inside/Outside, 13 n. 3.
31. Robert Cox makes the same point with reference to a Braudelian concept of temporality. See 'A Perspective on Globalisation', in Globalisation: Critical Reflections, 21-30.
32. Fareed Zakaria, 'The Rise of Illiberal Democracy', Foreign Affairs 76, no. 6 (1997): 22-43.
33. Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs Ibid., 42.
34. Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs Ibid., 43.
35. Fred Dallmayr, Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998), 73.
36. See Michael J. Shapiro, Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
37. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990).
38. Ulrich Beck, The Reinvention of Politics: Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997),
39. Risk Society (London: Sage, 1992),
40. Democracy Without Enemies, trans. Mark Ritter (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998).
41. Roland Robertson, Globalisation: Social Theory and Global Culture (London: Sage, 1992).
42. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
43. For a range of interventions regarding globalisation and modernity, see Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, and Roland Robertson, eds., Global Modernities (London: Sage, 1995)
44. Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi, eds., The Cultures of Globalization (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998).
45. Beck, Reinvention of Politics, especially 94-109.
46. Appadurai, Modernity at Large, 5.
47. One interesting way in which this culture is now produced is through synergies between celebrities such as Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson who define a certain moral and normative horizon of ideals and possibilities for self-making, and commodities which entangle individuals directly in networks of meaning and provide the tools through which individuals can produce their own selves. Although weak on the cultural side, see Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and Global Capitalism.
48. Stronger on the cultural implications of global synergies as well as the challenges to democratic politics is Richard Garnet and John Cavanaugh, Global Dreams (New York: Touchstone Books, 1995).
49. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large, 32.
50. As Appadurai notes, 'The transformation of everyday subjectivities through electronic mediation and the work of the imagination is not only a cultural fact. It is deeply connected to politics, through the new ways in which individual attachments, interests, and aspirations increasingly crosscut those of the nation-state'. See his Modernity at Large, 10.
51. Appadurai, Modernity at Large, 33, emphasis in original.
52. See Beck, Reinvention of Politics, especially in 'Subpolitics-The Individual Returns to Society', 94-109. Appadurai describes this politics somewhat differently as 'subversive micronarratives'.
53. Beck, Subpolitics-The Individual Returns to Society Ibid., 95.
54. Beck, Subpolitics-The Individual Returns to Society Ibid., 97.
55. Beck, Subpolitics-The Individual Returns to Society Ibid., 104.
56. For an interpretation of Arendt along these lines see Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993).
57. I want to resist so-called 'cosmopolitan democracy' for this reason. See David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995)
58. Daniele Archibugi and David Held, eds., Cosmopolitan Democracy: Agenda for a New World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995).