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Globalization and Its Enemies.(Book review)
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Independent Review
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June 22, 2008
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- Powell, Benjamin
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Globalization and Its Enemies
By Daniel Cohen
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006.
Pp. 256. $27.95 cloth.
In Globalization and Its Enemies, Daniel Cohen deals with an important and timely topic, but he does so inadequately. The title leads one to believe that Cohen will defend globalization against its enemies or identify those enemies and describe their arguments. However, the book provides, at best, a weak defense of global capitalism, and it does not clearly identify globalization's enemies and their agenda. The book is perhaps strongest when the author puts the current wave of globalization into historical context. The book is at its weakest when the he ...