"Globalization is irreversible and irresistible." - Tony Blair

This book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible and hugely resistible. Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches within the anti-globalization movement. One, perhaps the most widely supported and influential strand today, calls the Fair Trade and Back to Bretton Woods school. This argues for immediate reforms of the world's trading system, capital markets, and global institutions, notably the World Bank, IMF and WTO. The other, the Localization school, takes a more root and branch position and argues for the abolition of these institutions and outright reversal of globalization. Buckman explains the details of each school's outlook and proposals, their weaknesses, where they disagree, their common ground, and where they might come together in campaigns.

The spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past 30 years looks set to shape the course of social progress over the next generation. Peggy Antro bus asks

• Where are women now in the struggle against gender inequality?
• W hat are the common issues that they face around the world?
• What challenges confront the wome n's movements?
• And what strategies are needed to meet them?

The autho r draws on her long experience of feminist activism to set women's movements in their changing n ational and global context. Her analysis will be an invaluable aid to reflection and action for the next ge neration of women as they carry through the unfinished business of women's emancipation.

Explains how the war on terrorism provides a wholly new context for the murky world o f secret services and intelligence agencies to operate in;
Describes in detail how ultra-modern new te chnologies have vastly increased their power to spy abroad and eavesdrop at home;
Tells us the cha nging priorities and working methods of the CIA and other US agencies, the FSB (successor to the KGB) in Russia, Western Europe's secret services, Mossad in Israel, and the diverse security services in developing countries.

This up-to-date account raises important issues, including the new ro l es the secret services have found for themselves as they target 'rogue states' , 'the war on drugs', and 'terrorists'. Most important of all, its authors explore the unsolved contrad iction between the world of these secretive and unaccountable agencies operating on the fringes of the l aw, and the requirements of a free and democratic society. Ther

Reading through the Elixir of Life –  the socio-ecological governance of drinking water, we find  the authors making an attempt to examine the changing pattern of investments and role of different institutions to enhance private investment.

A well-recognised fact is that water supply is one of the major challenges faced in both urban and rural India. Various dimensions – social, technical, economic, institutional, environmental, legal and political – of the problem have been addressed in this book for the effective implementation of rural water supply schemes.  The two major states involved in the study are Karnataka and Gujarat. Since urban centres, particularly large cities are more politically visible, vocal and demanding, they are frequently served by multiple sources, and firefighting efforts are made to meet crises situations in these centres.

In this book, global food and farming researcher-activist Peter Rosset explains how the runaway free trade policies and neoliberal economics of the WTO, American government and European Union kill farmers, and give us a food system that nobody outside of a small corporate elite wants. This is an essential guide that unravels and demystifies the confusing negotiations at the WTO, and the debate over agricultural subsidies, revealing the bankruptcy of major government positions from both the North and the South. What is at stake is the very future of our global food system and of each country's unique food and farming systems. This book sets out an alternative vision for agricultural policy, taking it completely out of the WTO's ambit. Food is not just another commodity, to be bought and sold like a microchip, but something which goes to the heart of human livelihood, culture and society.

From cleaning to construction, from agriculture to domestic work, every day migrant labourers are exploited and enslaved. Extra hours are squeezed out of Polish food packers, and trafficked African children are used for forced labour. Low wages are used to drive down prices from the oil industry to airport services.

In this book, Toby Shelley shows that current unprecedented flows of migrant workers are a direct result of economic liberalization. The appalling conditions and legal abuses which confront these workers are not a premodern aberration, but an integral part of the global economy. Shelley argues that even governments, keen to protect big business, are complicit in this exploitation; their 'law and order' approach on immigration being part of this complicity.

Based on interviews and investigations with workers, unionists and activists, Exploited is a powerful and shocking read.

This book by an independent journalist and academic shows how oil is key to regime change in Iraq, the escalation of the US military role in Colombia’s conflict, and the increased US military presence in the oil rich regions of Central Asia and West Africa. Oil is also funding the Venezuelan alternative to the US-pushed ‘free trade’ model of globalization. The desire to secure access to oil is one of the drivers of US foreign policy. The Bush administration has made it a priority to consolidate US hegemony over Middle Eastern oil while attempting to secure access to alternate sources in Central Asia, Nigeria, Colombia and Venezuela. These areas, many of which are already rife with socio-economic inequalities and human rights abuses, are likely to be the settings for the oil wars of the 21st century. The strategic use of the war on terror to protect oil interests raises important new questions about the dangers of US foreign policy. This work exposes US oil policy and its human rights implications.