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From World Order to Global Disorder
States, Markets, and Dissent
Dorval Brunelle
Translated by Richard Howard
The French philosopher and activist, Jean Rostand,
said: “It is horrible to see everything one detested
in the past coming back wearing the colours of the
future.” Dorval Brunelle’s wonderful new book explains
how economic globalization has erased the international
consensus for justice that emerged out of the
horrors of World War II and exposes this new system
for the regressive force it really is.
– Maude Barlow, National Chairperson,
Council of Canadians
From World Order to Global Disorder demonstrates the
profound effect of globalization on relations between
the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective
and individual rights. As neo-liberalism evolves
into globalization, governments are eschewing their role
as public guardians and are instead bartering the very
assets and resources their citizens’ labour and activism
created and preserved. However, no constitution makes
governments owners of collective assets: governments
are merely trustees. In this context, the world’s citizens
have a tremendous task before them: in the wake of the
welfare state, their social forums are indispensable in
the quest for a more just and equitable world.
Dorval Brunelle is a professor of sociology
and Director of the Observatoire des Amériques
at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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2007, 224 pages, 5.5 x 8.5”
0-7748-1360-1 / 978-0-7748-1360-0
cloth $85.00
0-7748-1361-X / 978-0-7748-1361-7
paper $29.95 (publishing January 2008)
The authoritative account of the rise of the
global social justice movement by an ‘insider,”
who also happens to be one of Canada’s leading
social scientists. Dorval Brunelle’s book will be
of interest to political scientists, economists,
sociologists, and citizens with an appetite to
discover what lies behind the headlines about
lost jobs, world trade talks, growing inequalities,
and popular unrest in much of the world.
– Duncan Cameron, Associate Publisher
of rabble.ca
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1 Building the Postwar Order
2 Welfare States and Social Rights
3 Internationalism versus Regionalism in the Cold War
4 Canada and the Cold War: The Shift to Regionalism
5 Canada-US Free Trade: From the Regional to the Global
6 Features of a Global Order
7 Consultation or Contention: Social Movements
and Globalization
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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