Left and Right in Global Politics
something is now too powerful to hide behind past failures, and the left – recognizing those failures – is taking a much tougher ...
and occupied skilled and professional positions, in both the public and the private sector. Political conflicts increasingly pit ...
were mostly defensive. Whether in opposition or in government, parties of the left basically felt compelled to fall in line with ...
world had fewer than 200 transnational social movements organiza- tions (TSMOs), which could be defined as organizations that br ...
with social justice. The anti-globalization label gave way to the notion of another globalization, or alter-globalization. The r ...
for all.”^29 In this connection, the left increasingly criticized the double standard of the economic policies of the North. By ...
involve a greater number of citizens from the North and the South in the development debate. To sum up, progressive forces may h ...
social-democratic perspective, which was faithful to the perennial values of the left but also in tune with the demands of “toda ...
active state” whose “top priority” was “investment in human and social capital.”^37 Anthony Giddens, who was a close advisor to ...
in favor of a politics of resignation that offered no more than remedial responses to the failures of neoliberalism.^40 In Europ ...
The left consistently sought, however, to advance social equality, whereas parties of the right accepted inequality as an unavoi ...
egalitarian direction in the 2000s. In the 1990s, the right was still largely dominant and the left first had to re-establish it ...
made the reduction of poverty and social exclusion an explicit and operational objective, to be achieved through National Action ...
two groups of international organizations narrowed considerably, and the dialogue between them became more intense than ever. Th ...
proposed to make the twenty-first century “the century of develop- ment for all,” while the World Summit emphasized the need “to ...
him to do so. At the IMF, Managing Director Horst Ko ̈hler described poverty as “the greatest challenge to peace and security in ...
Meanwhile, the UN development paradigm became more market- friendly. Faced with steady criticisms from developed countries, the ...
“more competitive,” and it emphasized performance in the design of its assistance programs.^74 The UNDP also played an active ro ...
diplomacy was in phase with the worldwide left–right convergence that took place at the turn of the century. Faced with the limi ...
Five years after Blair’s victory, the European social-democratic left was losing ground to center-right parties that capitalized ...
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