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State of power 2015 Global power and resistance (Mobi)

State of power 2015 Global power and resistance (Mobi)

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The fourth edition of our annual State of Power report, coinciding with the international meeting in Switzerland of what Susan George calls “the Davos class”. This series seeks to examine different dimensions of power, unmask the key holders of power in our globalised world, and identify sources of transformative counter-power.

Essays
The new Global Corporate Law 
Juan Hernández Zubizarreta
How transnational corporations have succeeded in replacing rule of law with Global Corporate law, using a multitude of norms, treaties and agreements - most recently the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership - to secure their rights to profit above human rights.

Political Capture by the Financial Industry 
Manolis Kalaitzake
How did the financial sector succeed escaping censure and even effective regulation despite the global economic crisis? Through the case study of the proposed Financial Transaction Tax, Kalaitzake looks at how the financial sector succeeded in capturing policy and politicians and how we might challenge their power.

The True Stakes of Internet Governance 
Richard Hill
Many people understand how the Internet has revolutionised society, but have we really grasped the power implications? Richard Hill shows how US policy-makers have used the ad hoc ‘multi-stakeholder’ governance of the Internet for political and economic ends.

Gambling on Hunger and Climate Change 
Sasha Breger Bush
Financial speculation has not just rewarded bankers; it has played a major role in fuelling hunger, land dispossession and climate change. Yet the financial sector innovates false financial ‘solutions’ to the very problems it creates.

Mexico: Challenging Drug Prohibition from Below 
Sebastian Scholl
The horrific forced disappearance of 43 students in Iguala reveals how organised crime and corruption thrive in conditions of institutional or democratic weakness, shaped to a large extent by distinctive transnational relations (importantly, in this case, with the US). Fortunately groups like the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity are showing a burgeoning ‘social power‘ that has the potential to change politics and policy.

Contesting Big Mining from Canada to Mozambique 
Judith Marshall
How have mining transnational companies and the extractive industry become so powerful in every country, no matter their political shade? Marshall shows how the ‘promiscuously intimate’
relationship between governments and companies developed and how we might resist.

Organising workers’ Counter-power in Italy and Greece 
Lorenzo Zamponi and Markos Vogiatzoglou
Austerity in Greece and Italy has struck workers' particularly hard, but it has also been the context for radical innovations in ’organising the unorganised’, building new kinds of work spaces and even taking control of production.

How Economics bolstered Power by obscuring it 
Michael Perelman
Economists consistently have upheld the power of elites, at times by taking their side overtly, but most often by ignoring or obscuring power, giving economics a veneer of science, in which the impact on people and the environment is hidden from public view.

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