David Held has been one of the leading contributors to contemporary global justice debates, and particularly to the theory of cosmopolitan social democracy as a response to the Washington consensus on neoliberal policies of economic globalization, along with the so-called Washington security agenda. Indeed, his most recent work may be understood best as a defense of globalization, concerned with offering an alternative to the latter kind of consensus and agenda. Held objects to the Washington consensus on the ground that neoliberal policies of financial and trade liberalization have signally failed to realize projected gains in human development and global poverty reduction. He objects to the Washington security agenda on the ground that US inspired strategies of order through dominance facilitated by preemptive uses of military force aimed at regime change are both hegemonic and counterproductive.
His alternative consists in an attempt instead to realize a very different kind of...
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Allen, M. (2011). Held, David. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_460
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