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1. Tax havens under attack

Author:
Ronen Palan
Publication Date:
06-2013
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Chatham House
Abstract:
Tax havens have been around for decades but they were viewed as marginal if not esoteric phenomena. Attitudes are changing. As new data on international financial flows becomes available, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that tax havens are at the very heart of 'neoliberal' globalization, aiding and facilitating tax avoidance on a vast scale.
Topic:
Globalization
Political Geography:
United States and Caribbean

2. Emerging powers, North–South relations and global climate politics

Author:
Andrew Hurrell and Sandeep Sengupta
Publication Date:
05-2012
Content Type:
Journal Article
Institution:
Chatham House
Abstract:
There is a widespread perception that power is shifting in global politics and that emerging powers are assuming a more prominent, active and important role. On this account the global system is increasingly characterized by a diffusion of power, to countries including emerging and regional powers; by a diffusion of preferences, with many more voices demanding to be heard both globally and within states as a result of globalization and democratization; and by a diffusion of ideas and values, with a reopening of the big questions of social, economic and political organization that were supposedly resolved with the end of the Cold War and the liberal ascendancy. There is a strong argument that we are witnessing the most powerful set of challenges yet to the global order that the United States sought to construct within its own camp during the Cold War and to globalize in the post-Cold War period. Many of these challenges also raise questions about the longer-term position of the Anglo-American and European global order that rose to dominance in the middle of the nineteenth century and around which so many conceptions and practices of power-political order, of the international legal system and of global economic governance have since been constructed.
Topic:
Globalization
Political Geography:
United States, America, and Europe