Globalisms: The Great Ideological Struggle of the Twenty-first Century

by Manfred B. Steger

This new edition of Manfred Steger's award-winning book explores the three principal ideologies of our the neoliberal "market globalism", the "justice globalism" of the global justice movement, and the "jihadist globalism" of radical Islamists. Steger, one of the world's leading scholars on these subjects, explores globalization's central What, exactly, are the core claims of these conflicting globalisms? What are the most likely future trajectories of this great ideological struggle of the twenty-first century? Written with impressive historical and theoretical breadth, this groundbreaking work is essential reading for all those concerned with the key questions that our shrinking world must face.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

236 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1900

About the author

Manfred B. Steger (born 1961) is Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was also Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University in Australia until 2013. Steger's research and teaching spans globalization, ideology, and non-violence.

Steger's won the 2003 Michael Harrington Award with his study on Globalism: The New Market Ideology.

Reviews

[Archenon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Political propaganda disguised as a scientific book. Writer's political views were clear in every chapter, although I enjoyed mostly well argumented criticism towards other ideologies. The criticism towards proponents of the market globalism included a disturbing amount of twisting words to mean what the writer wants them to mean and refusal to believe that "they" could have any honest intentions and willingness to reform. The chapter about "justice globalism", however, made the book simply bad. Here all the criticism and arguments were replaced by fanboyish praising of almost everything said by "justice globalists" (with a few half-assed words of "criticism" not really intended to point out the mistakes but to disguise the writer at least a bit more objective) and defending and even glorifying damage to property and violence done in the name of "justice globalism" juiced with very imaginative use of "law" and "civil rights" to point out supposed violations against the noble "justice globalists" by law enforcement authorities. It became very clear that this book is written as a tool for the writer's "us" against mainly market/imperial globalist "others".

Without the most evident propaganda chapter I guess the book would have been 3/5.

[Gerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful survey Ponting the way for further studies