Harvard University Press, 2021
Six Faces of Globalization
Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
Anthea Roberts & Nicolas Lamp
“A very smart book, and not just for people interested in globalization… Highly recommended.”
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America
“The book the world needs to read now. It deserves a spot on every shelf of books about globalization.”
Richard Baldwin, Graduate Institute, Geneva
One of the Best Books of 2021 — the Financial Times and Fortune Magazine
An essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization
Globalization has lifted millions out of poverty. Globalization is a weapon the rich use to exploit the poor. Globalization builds bridges across national boundaries. Globalization fuels the populism and great-power competition that is tearing the world apart.
When it comes to the politics of free trade and open borders, the camps are dug in, producing a kaleidoscope of claims and counterclaims, unlikely alliances, and unexpected foes. But what exactly are we fighting about? And how might we approach these issues more productively?
Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp cut through the confusion with an indispensable survey of the interests, logics, and ideologies driving these intractable debates, which lie at the heart of so much political dispute and decision making.
The authors expertly guide us through six competing narratives about the virtues and vices of globalization: the old establishment view that globalization benefits everyone (win-win), the pessimistic belief that it threatens us all with pandemics and climate change (lose-lose), along with various rival accounts that focus on specific winners and losers, from China to America's rust belt.
Instead of picking sides, Six Faces of Globalization provides a holistic framework for understanding current debates. In doing so, the authors showcase a more integrative way of thinking about complex problems.
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Author
Anthea Roberts
Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University
Anthea Roberts is author of the prizewinning Is International Law International?. In 2019, she was named the world's leading international law scholar by League of Scholars.
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Nicolas Lamp
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University, Ontario
Nicolas Lamp was previously a dispute-settlement lawyer at the World Trade Organization and has published widely on international trade lawmaking.
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