Global Liberalism, Local Popularism—Peace And Conflict in Israel/palestine And Northern Ireland

Focusing in on two different time periods, the decline of British hegemony and its related economic and political institutions in the 1870s and the recent decline of the American hegemonic order of embedded liberalism, Ben-Porat (public policy and administration, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev, Israel) analyzes the connections between macro-global economic and political changes and processes of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine. His focus is on analyzing the incentives that globalization provide to business communities and other classes to put pressure on political institutions to facilitate the peace process and the types of interactions between contending communities. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)