Producing Globalisation

Andreas Antoniades is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy and Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex

• IntroductionPart I: Theory and agents1. Hegemonic discourse communication: theory and methodology 2. Greece and Ireland as social agents in the 1990sPart II: Institutional reproduction and social transformation: the hegemonic discourse of globalisation in action, 1995-20013. The globalisation discourse in Greece4 . The globalisation discourse in IrelandPart III: Conclusions5. Different facets of globalisation discourse6. Explaining facets of the hegemonic: political economy, domestic institutions and beyondEpilogueBibliography

This is a fascinating study of two very different economies and their domestic responses to globalization. It contrasts the largely apolitical debate in Ireland - with a population enjoying such absolute gains that few thought of winners and losers - with the more politicised response in Greece, with its confrontational, fragmented and particularistic pattern of interest representation. The comparison will appeal to those endeavouring to understand the politics of globalisation and to those interested in comparative institutional analysis. At the same time, the book offers a framework by which we can understand how a discourse on globalisation can become 'hegemonic'. Antoniades displays a command of diverse literatures and an impressive ability to synthesise them to good effect. Professor Kevin Featherstone, London School of Economics and Political Science