
Deviant Globalization
Black Market Economy in the 21st Century
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Published on 24. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4411-7810-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays introduces the thriving illicit industries and activities within the global economy whose growth challenges traditional notions of wealth, power, and progress. Through essays contributed by leading experts and scholars, "Deviant Globalization" argues that far from being marginal, illicit activities are a fundamental part of globalization. Narcotrafficking, human trafficking, the organ trade, computer malware, transnational gangs are just as much artifacts of globalization as are CNN and McDonald's, free trade and capital mobility, accessible air travel and container shipping. In fact, almost every technology, process, and regulation that enables mainstream globalization is an enabler of deviant globalization. This unique book explains why understanding deviant globalization as a systemic and integral part of globalization is crucial for setting up policies that will maximize the benefits of globalization and minimize its ill effects. Going beyond the usual pro/con arguments about globalization, "Deviant Globalization" seeks to initiate a critical debate about the choices it presents to governments, firms, supra-national organizations, and individuals.
An accessible treatment of the underbelly of globalization, the book offers a systematic treatment of the difficult policy choices that it creates and describes a much more complex and symbiotic relationship between illicit and mainstream globalization.
An accessible treatment of the underbelly of globalization, the book offers a systematic treatment of the difficult policy choices that it creates and describes a much more complex and symbiotic relationship between illicit and mainstream globalization.
Reviews / Votes
This carefully curated selection of provocative and accessible essays helps us come to grips with the dark underside of the global economy, and sheds new light on what we can and should do about it. - Peter Andreas, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Deviant Globalization shows the dark side of global trade, the illicit flows, black markets, and trafficking in drugs and human bodies that are as much a part of the new world (dis)order as multinational corporations and instant financial transfers. Contributors push us towards a more complete moral and political assessment of globalization and the development of better theories to account for power relations, inequalities, and collateral damage. - Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council In the shadows of the move to a globalized economy, in places its uncritical partisans would rather not look, an equally new and equally globalized set of phenomena has arisen. In this pathbreaking book, Nils Gilman, Jesse Goldhammer, and Steven Weber have gone far beyond registering the existence of 'deviant globalization.' They have theorized it, and shown that what crops up at the intersection of ethical disparity and regulatory inefficiency is now a permanent feature of global affairs. Observers of the world will benefit from this insight, while teachers and students will gratefully thank the editors for compiling the evidence in one place. - Samuel Moyn, Columbia University, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in HistoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7810-7 (9781441178107)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jesse Goldhammer is Senior Practitioner at Monitor 360 a San Francisco based group that helps organizations make sense of complex geo-strategic issues. Steven Weber is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, USA. He is also an associate with the International Computer Science Institute and affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group. Nils Gilman is Senior Practitioner at Monitor 360, a San Francisco based group that helps organizations make sense of complex geo-strategic issues.
Content
Introduction; Section I. People; 1. Snakeheads and Smuggling: The Dynamics of Illegal Chinese Immigration - Patrick Radden Keefe; 2. The Sex Trade - Sean Flynn; 3. Global Sex Trafficking - Joni Seager; 4. The black market in human organs - Frederike Ambatsgeer; 5. The Dark Side of Dubai - Johann Hari; Section II. Drugs; 6. Smuggling Made Easy: Landlocked Paraguay Emerges as a Top Producer of Contraband Tobacco - Marina Walker Guevara, Mabel Rehnfeldt, Marcelo Soares; 7. West Africa's International Drug Trade - Stephen Ellis; 8. The Inland Empire - Nick Reding; Section III. Resources; 9. The illicit abalone trade in South Africa - Jonny Steinberg; 10. Toxic Exports: Despite Global Treaty, Hazardous Waste Trade Continues - Jennifer Clapp; 11. The Stolen Forests: Inside the Covert War on Illegal Logging - Raffi Khatchadourian; 12. Blood Oil - Sebastian Junger; Section IV New Organizations; 13. Inside the Global Hacker Service Economy - Scott Berinato; 14. Illicit Money: Can It Be Stopped? - Raymond Baker & Eva Joly; 15. Weapons for Warlords: Arms Trafficking in the Gulf of Aden - Andrew Black; 16. Future Conflict: Criminal Insurgencies, Gangs and Intelligence - John P. Sullivan; 17. Excerpts from Brave new war: the next stage of terrorism and the end of globalization - John Robb; Conclusion; Bibliography.