Congrats and good luck.
but 200 years is a rather short and insufficiently braod perspective on
contemporary globalization. Even the 600 year one i sue in ReORIENT is
not nearly enough - to see whats goin' on here and now.
gunder frank
On Fri, 7 Nov
1997, Richard K. Moore wrote:
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 14:26:01 GMT
> From: "Richard K. Moore" <rkmoore@iol.ie>
> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Book in development: "Globalization & NWO - democracy at a crossroads"
>
>
> Below are the Summary and Outline for a book I'm currently developing (in
> collaboratin with Carolyn Ballard) - a book which seeks to put
> globalization in its appropriate historical perspective as a coherent and
> profound tranformation of the global political system - so profound as to
> force comparison with the Enlightenment-inspired revolutions, the Treaty of
> Westphalia, and even the fall of Rome.
>
> Some of the book's themes have been debated on this list - indeed members
> of the list have contributed (partly via their objections) to the
> development of the ideas and their presentation. I'd welcome comments
> regarding the thesis and organization of the book - references, criticisms,
> encouragements, potential publishers, etc. Who knows - someone may even
> want to contribute some material as a co-author.
>
> As I mentioned a day or two ago, I'll be publishing an abbreviated first
> draft of the book as a series of essays - following the outline topics
> point by point, one essay per point. This series will be posted to the
> cyberjournal list, which anyone is invited to join. I'd be happy to
> publish the series here as well if there were a groundswell of interest
> expressed. (:>)
>
> Regards,
> rkm
>
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> Globalization and the New World Order
> -- democracy at a crossroads
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> Copyright 1997 by Richard K. Moore
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> SUMMARY
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> The thesis of this book is that globalization is a political transformation
> of profound signficance, replacing the nation-state system with an
> elite-dominated globalist regime - and scuttling in the process two
> centuries of democratic traditions. Far more than an economic agenda,
> globalization brings a comprehensive revolution, with new paradigms of
> international order, commercial enterprise, national sovereignty, and
> social control. But while rapid and far-reaching, this revolution has been
> largely a stealth affair - a kind of spread-spectrum blitzkrieg attack, run
> under cover of official obfuscation.
>
> To put the globalist revolution in perspective, the history of the past two
> centuries is revisited; the modern nation state is interpreted as a
> partnership-of-mutual-interest between the people (in its democratic
> aspects) and the elite (in its capitalist aspects). The strained
> partnership has resulted in a cyclical see-saw struggle for power between
> elite and popular interests - resulting in a kind of rough-justice
> approximation of democracy.
>
> Since the 1980's, the elite have increasingly enjoyed a high position on
> the see-saw, as laissez-faire governments have come into power worldwide -
> particularly in the West. Globalization is the "locking in" of this
> temporary ascendency - the imposition of a New World Order in which
> economic, political, and military power are officially and permanently
> assigned to elite-dominated supra-national institutions. The global elite,
> to put it broadly, are abandoning the nation-state partnership and the
> see-saw compromise: they want it all.
>
> On this broad canvas, the book examines Western imperialism, the "Free
> World" era, the growth of transnational corporations, neoliberal policies,
> corruption of the democratic process, modern interventionism, the threat of
> police states and the Third-World precedent, elite planning, covert
> operations, the mass media, propaganda, divide-and-conquer populism, and
> more.
>
> The book closes with an examination of democracy, economics, the nation
> state, and the prospects for popular political activism. With the nation
> state having been abandoned by capitalism, the people are being
> disempowered and disenfranchised; they have a vanshing window of
> opportunity to make use of the democratic process and rebalance the
> see-saw. There will be one revolution or the other - but no standing
> still.
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> OUTLINE
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> I. Introduction
> A. Brief review of globalization and world systems
> B. Introduction of threads to be developed in book
> C. Positioning of this material in context of other available works
> and perspectives
> D. Statement of scope
>
> II. The USA - prototype of the republican nation state
> A. Monarchial origins and competing elites
> B. The colonial experience: autonomy and commerce
> C. Independence: dual motivation and dual benefit
> D. A strained partnership: the see-saw of democracy; elite vs people
> E. The expansion imperative and the ever-growing pie
>
> III. The evolution of the nation-state system and the birth of globalism
> A. The nation-state system up to WW II
> B. Uncle Sam as King of the Hill: postwar collective imperialism
> C. The "Free World" system and the rise of TNC's: redefining "national
> interests"
> D. The USA: microcosm and champion of globalization
>
> IV. World order under globalism
> A. The end-of-Cold-War crisis
> B. The special role of the U.S. in globalism
> C. The US/NATO police force; the Desert Storm precedent
> D. "Kulturkampf" and regional proxies: toy geopolitics
> E. Rounding up the stragglers: the China question
> F. The role of covert operations: what you don't know won't hurt you
>
> V. The neoliberal revolution and the globalist regime
> A. The neoliberal revolution: the elite abandon the nation state
> B. Who are "they"?: the reality of elite consciousness
> C. The globalist regime: a stealth coup d'etat
> D. Devolution, the EU, and "peacekeeping": a trojan cavalry
> E. The institutionalization of domination: systematic disempowerment
> F. Earth, Incorporated: the logic of capital concentration
>
> VI. Democracy and the media
> A. Propaganda and democracy: the poison in the soup
> B. Conspiracies and cover-ups: it's turtles all the way down
> C. Privatization and monopoly cliques: cloning the U.S. model
> D. The modern mass-media industry and scientific mind control
> E. Globalization, neoliberalism, and cyberspace: case studies in
> propaganda thought control
> F. Divide-and-conquer populism: cults and social control
> G. Cyberspace: the ultimate Orwellian medium
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> VII. National decay and the police state
> A. Social decline and unrest: predictable consequences of globalism
> B. The Third-World police-state precedent
> C. Crossing the Rubicon: First-World police-state apparatus
> D. Smuggling camels: the "war" on drugs, crime and terrorism
> E. Corporate-feudalism: governments as "royal governors"
> F. Cyberspace: global surveillance and centralized control
>
> VIII. One revolution or the other
> A. The center cannot hold: nation-state partnership cancelled
> B. It can't happen here?... the boiling-frog scenario
> C. Democracy: realities and deceptions
> D. Economics: sense and nonsense
> E. The nation state: precious bastion of popular power
> F. Political activism: the means are the ends
> G. The journey of a thousand miles...
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