Why is globalisation contested

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Before characterizing the main schools of thought we should make a few general remarks on the settings that made globalization so contentious. According to Higott [9] , it was a change of mood that made globalization, initially driven by the neo-liberal Washington consensus, so highly contested. This mood swing was triggered by the following events.

First, the failure of the OECD [10] to establish a multilateral agreement on investment became one of the early victories for coordinated NGO [11] opposition to the dominating neo-liberal stream. Second, the financial crises in East Asia in brought many to rethink the role of the state. Fourth, regardless of the absence of funded evidence for causality , often the mere publication of economic data that correlates globalization with poverty and inequality lets many people think it is bad.

Thus the antiglobalisers have been growing in numbers. When defining time frame for our debate some authors have argued that it came in several waves. Strange [13] distinguishes even four waves. Hyperglobalists state that the nation-state is hollowed out by footloose MNCs and hypersensitive capital flows. The latter render governments powerless to control the economy as they used to do with interventionist measures during post-war Keynesianism.

A proof of it is the massive FDI flows to low-wage and flat-tax countries e. Romania, Slovakia, Baltic states. The driving forces of globalization are deemed to be capitalism and new technologies especially in the IT sector , both reordering human action by eliminating geography. British conservatives have stressed that hyperglobalization allows for credible commitments to low taxation, low public spending and deregulation and will thus bring prosperity only if governments adhere to neo-liberal guidelines.

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