Losing the Global Development War
A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO
Biographical note
John W. Head, professor of international law at Kansas University, holds degrees from Oxford University and the University of Virginia. He has worked in several international financial institutions and has written widely on global business law, and international development law and institutions.
Readership
* college and university faculty and students (especially at undergraduate level)
* lawyers and business executives wanting a general overview and evaluation of the GEOs
* policy-makers in government agencies (esp. ministries of finance, trade, development, etc; and central banks)
* policy advocates in NGOs focused on the GEOs (esp. with environmental, human rights, and "civil society" agendas)
* interested and generally informed readers without any specific background in international economic relations or law
* all those interested in international economic relations generally, and particularly in how the key global economic organizations should be intelligently criticized and effectively reformed for a new age.
* lawyers and business executives wanting a general overview and evaluation of the GEOs
* policy-makers in government agencies (esp. ministries of finance, trade, development, etc; and central banks)
* policy advocates in NGOs focused on the GEOs (esp. with environmental, human rights, and "civil society" agendas)
* interested and generally informed readers without any specific background in international economic relations or law
* all those interested in international economic relations generally, and particularly in how the key global economic organizations should be intelligently criticized and effectively reformed for a new age.
Table of contents
Foreword and Synopsis; Chapter One: The Fourth World War; Chapter Two: A Cacophony of Criticisms — Attacking the Global Economic Organizations; Chapter Three: What Are the Global Economic Organizations?; Chapter Four: Battles Over the GEOs’ Policies and Operations; Chapter Five: Battles Over the GEOs’ Character, Control, and Reach; Chapter Six: The Current Front in the Global Development War —
How (and Whether) to Reform the GEOs?; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
How (and Whether) to Reform the GEOs?; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
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