Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 48) - Softcover

Robinson, William I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521566916 ISBN 13: 9780521566919

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Promoting Polyarchy is an exciting, detailed and controversial work on the apparent change in US foreign policy from supporting dictatorships to promoting "democratic" regimes. William I. Robinson argues that behind this facade, US policy upholds the undemocratic status quo of Third World countries. He addresses the theoretical and historical issues at stake, and uncovers a wealth of information from field work and hitherto unpublished government documents. Promoting Polyarchy is an essential book for anyone concerned with democracy, globalization and international affairs.

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Book Description

Arguing that U.S. policy upholds the undemocratic status quo of Third World countries behind a facade, this study addresses the theoretical and historical issues at stake. It uncovers a wealth of information from field work and hitherto unpublished government documents.

About the Author

William I. Robinson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program and with the Global and International Studies Program. He has previously published seven books, among them, the award-winning Promoting Polyarchy (Cambridge, 1996), A Theory of Global Capitalism (2004), and the award-winning Latin America and Global Capitalism (2008). He has published some fifty articles in academic journals such as Sociological Forum, Theory and Society, International Studies Review, International Sociology, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, International Relations, Global Society, Globalizations, Race and Class, New Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, and Radical Philosophy and hundreds of essays, books chapters, and articles in the popular press. He is a member of the editorial board of fifteen academic journals. In 2013 Robinson was elected chair of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He is a member of the ASA, the Latin American Studies Association, the Global Studies Association, and the International Studies Association. He was a founding writer for and editor of Pensamiento Propio, a monthly journal of the Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521566916
• ISBN 13: 9780521566919
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 488