Thinkers

 

Walden Bello, executive director of Focus on the Global South, examines the meaning of the Doha trade round.
http://www.tni.org/archives/bello/meaning.htm

Fred Bergsten Director, Institute for International Economics, examines the backlash against globalisation.
http://www.iie.com/papers/bergsten0500.htm

Manuel Castells, professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the most powerful thinkers about information technology and globalisation. He spells out his thoughts in one of the only works of his to be presented online, Information Technology, Globalization and Social Development.
http://www.unrisd.org/infotech/conferen/castelp1.htm

Noam Chomsky Linguist and radical thinker, presents a speech, The World After Sept. 11
http://www.zmag.org/chomskyafter911.htm

Herman Daly radical economist presents his farewell speech as chief economist of the World Bank
http://www.whirledbank.org/ourwords/daly.html

Francis Fukuyama. In a discussion at a forum run by Merrill Lynch, Fukuyama, author of such books as The End of History and The Great Disruption, argues that globalisation does not bring a convergence of culture.
http://www.ml.com/woml/forum/global.htm

John Kenneth Galbraith. Radical economist argues that neoliberalism has brought globalisation to a point of crisis.
http://www.igc.org/dissent/current/summer99/galbrait.html

Susan George, Associate director of the Transnational Institute and author presents an essay entitled, Another World Is Possible.
http://www.tni.org/george/articles/possible.htm

Anthony Giddens, the director of the London School of Economics, devoted the BBC’s Reith Lecture series in 1999 to issues of globalisation.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Giddens/

Barry Gills, editor of Globalization and the Politics of Resistance, keeps related papers on site. A lecture on same is at
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/politics/staff/homepage/gills.html

Allen Greenspan, Chairman US Federal Reserve, gave a speech, Global Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges, in August 2000.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/20000825.htm

David Henderson, economist and political scientist, presents a critique of the anti-globalisation forces.
http://www.iea.org.uk/wpapers/wincottintro.htm

Edward S Herman, Professor of Finance at Wharton University describes globalisation as an attack on democracy.
http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue26/herman26.htm#r6

Bob Jessop investigates current changes in the capitalist economy, with "special reference to the illogics of globalization and the contradictions of the knowledge-driven economy". His homepage is
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/rjessop.html

Douglas Kellner, leading postmodernist updates his work on globalization with the paper Globalization, Technopolitics and Revolution at:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html

Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and anticapitalist and antiglobalisation campaigner, has her own website
http://www.nologo.org/

Gordon Laxer co-ordinates a multi-disciplinary study into globalisation. His paper "The movement that dare not speak its name. The return of left nationalism / internationalism" argues that the retrieval of Left nationalism is essential in the current campaign for popular sovereignty and against corporate globalism. His homepage is
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/socweb/faculty/laxer/laxer_main.htm

Anna Leander, a researcher at the leading 'Copenhagen school', presents the paper, Globalisation, Transnational Polities and the Dislocation of Politics, downloadable at:
http://www.copri.dk/publications/workingpapers.htm


Frank Lechner started a globalization site in 2000 and provided most of its content. It succinctly surveys major debates and classifies organizations involved in globalisation. View at
http://www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/index.html


Marjorie Lister offers a feminist analysis of globalisation in her paper Globalization in Question: Hierarchies, States and Gender that is downloadable at:
http://www.europe.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/header.htm


Bjorn Lomborg a Danish Professor has ignited a storm of controversy with his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which criticises the prophets of doom that populate the environment movement. He argues that the global environment is in better shape than environmentalists claim, and getting better. His web-site, including sample chapters, gives space to his critics.
http://www.lomborg.com/

Martin Marcussen, of the Copenhagen school, in a paper entitled Globalization: A Third Way Gospel that Travels World Wide, analyses globalisation as a discourse which is traditionally applied in neo-liberal circles stating that 'there is no alternative'. See
http://www.ciaonet.org/isa/mam01/


David Moore edited a collection of papers - Embedding Globalisation - presented at a workshop hosted by the Center for Development Studies at Flinders University including a paper by leading Gramscian scholar Stephen Gill entitled Globalization and crisis at the end of the twentieth century.
http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/dvst/pubs/globalisation.pdf

Alan Oxley, the Chairman of the Australian APEC Study Centre, is author of the book Seize the Future: how Australia can prosper in the new century, published by Allen and Unwin, 2000. A chapter, The Global Nation, is presented here.

Dani Rodrik's page -http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.drodrik.academic.ksg/index.html - is also linked to discussion papers prepared under the research program of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs (G-24).

John Ralston Saul, philosopher, presents a speech on democracy and globalisation
http://www.abc.net.au/specials/saul/fulltext.htm

Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things, and an opponent of globalisation, is interviewed at http://www.progressive.org/intv0401.html

Martin Shaw maintains the leading http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk with a specialist link to http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/globalization He is associated with The Centre for Global Political Economy at Sussex University - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/CGPE/ - a key globalisation resource.

A provocative paper, entitled "The global constitution of 'failed states': the consequences of a new imperialism? The Problem of the Quasi-Imperial State: Uses and Abuses of Anti-Imperialism in the Global Era", is at http://www.martinshaw.org/empire.htm

Vandana Shiva, Indian radical thinker and environmentalist presents a blistering attack on the role of globalisation in reducing bio-diversity in the 2000 BBC Reith Lecture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/lecture5.stm

Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank presents his analysis of the Asian financial crisis.
http://thenewrepublic.com/041700/stiglitz041700.html

Lori Wallach, the leader of Ralph Nader’s Global Trade Watch, in interview with the Multinational Monitor
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/WTO_SlowMotionCoup.html

Kenneth Waltz, the realist political scientist, contends "politics, as usual, prevails over economics." Posted at
http://www.apsanet.org/PS/dec99/waltz.cfm

Mark Weisbrot co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C, writes in an article in Harpers Magazine, Globalisation is on the ropes
http://www.cepr.net/columns/weisbrot/globalization_on_ropes.htm

 

Leaders

Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, launches a global compact with business at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, 2000.
http://www.un.org/partners/business/davos.htm

Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, presents a speech, after the terrorist attacks, arguing that globalisation enhances world security.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4268838,00.html

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil and leading intellectual presents an article on globalisation entitled Democracy as a Starting Point.
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/journal_of_democracy/v012/12.1cardoso.html

Fidel Castro, President of Cuba. Presents an opening address to the South Summit, 1999, This is Not the Time for Begging.
http://www.southcentre.org/southletter/sl35/sl35-12.htm

Bill Gates addressing journalists at the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne in 2000, he argues that if you block world trade, the losers will be the poor people of the world.
http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,38690,00.html

Dr Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Prime Minister, Malaysia, in a speech entitled Globalisation at the Service of Mankind or Mankind at the Service of Globalisation, says globalisation has left South East Asia’s tigers ‘meaowing like cats’.
http://www.myglobal.gov.my/misc/speech.html

Michael Moore, Secretary General of the World Trade Organisation, presents a speech entitled WTO and the new Round of trade talks.
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spmm_e/spmm73_e.htm

Ralph Nader, founder of Public citizen and antiglobalisation campaigner, presents his view on the WTO talks in Seattle.
http://www.nader.org/interest/12799.html

Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, presents a speech entitled, A Fairer Global Order.
http://www.southcentre.org/southletter/sl35/sl35-11.htm

Stanley Fischer, Deputy Director of the IMF, considers the concerns people have in a speech, Globalisation, Valid Concerns?
http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2000/082600.htm