Auge y caída de la globalización
ISSN: 1405-1435, 2448-5799
Any de publicació: 2009
Títol de l'exemplar: Especial aniversario
Número: 1
Pàgines: 15-40
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Convergencia: Revista de ciencias sociales
Resum
"Globalization" is a polysemous word.In fact, different authors here presented give different definitions. The paper explores such meanings which are later reduced to three main topics: a specific ideology (globalism), an economic policy (Washington Consensus), and a historical process (world-systemization). The first one deals with a world-view, presenting it in a way coherent with the interests of the world elite. On the other hand, Washington Consensus is a set of economic recipes, emanating from Washington DC, and in a certain way imposed to parts of the world periphery. Finally, both ideology and neoliberal policies are related, but with different internal logic, to the process through which the capitalist world-system has become a world system. From these three points of view, "globalization" is in crisis and it makes sense to speak, instead, of "deglobalization ".