GLOBALIZATION AND INEQUALITY

This article explores the two-way relationship between globalisation a nd inequality. It examines how and why liberals ignore or downplay ine quality, and argues that globalisation can only be understood by inves tigating such factors as state strength, the power relations underpinn ing institutions, the sources of values and norms, the rules of intern ational society, and the power politics of the supposed 'transnational civil society'. These measures of global inequalities are all shown t o have shaped the process and impact of globalisation.