The Effects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
A Global South Perspective- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2014
Summary
In TheEffects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Kema Irogbeargues the forces of globalization, which include the IMF/World Bank, WTO, and Western media technology, are subordinated to the interests of multinational corporations under the tutelage of a lone superpower in strangling the development efforts of poor countries. Irogbe subjects the operations and the existing relationships among these international governmental and nongovernmental actors to the test of empirical reality and logical plausibility by drawing from the experiences of a varied selection of marginalized countries, such as Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil in Latin America; Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana in Africa; and Iraq, Iran, India, Afghanistan, and Vietnam in Asia. The book argues that globalization is a sophisticated lexicon for the pursuit of a homogenized political, economic, and cultural world order, which is a recipe for unending global crises.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2014
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-8769-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-8770-8
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 175
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
- Chapter Two: The Power of Multinational Corporations No access Pages 15 - 38
- Chapter Three: The World Trade Organization No access Pages 39 - 60
- Chapter Four: The World Bank and the IMF and the Odious Debts No access Pages 61 - 88
- Chapter Five: Western Media Technology and Cultural Globalization No access Pages 89 - 114
- Chapter Six: The Lone Superpower No access Pages 115 - 146
- Chapter Seven: Conclusion No access Pages 147 - 154
- References No access Pages 155 - 164
- Index No access Pages 165 - 174
- About the Author No access Pages 175 - 175





