Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization Contemporary Politics in the Global South

Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization : Contemporary Politics in the Global South / Opoku Agyeman.

Author/creator	Agyeman, Opoku, 1942-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Description	vii, 179 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Globalization--Political aspects --Developing countries. Globalization--Economic aspects --Developing countries. World politics--1989- Developing countries--Foreign relations. Developing countries--Foreign economic relations.

Contents	Introduction : power versus powerlessness -- Asia : a bifurcated empowerment -- Latin America : from "backwater" of the US to an emerging Bolivarian counterforce -- Powerlessness and slavocracy -- Realism, liberalism, and the intractable case of western farm subsidies -- The improbable banana conflict of the 1990s between the US and the EU, its repercussions for weak countries, and the WTO's role in it.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014021880
ISBN	9780739195215 (cloth : alk. paper)

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