All Together Now: Becoming Global Citizens (1968–2003)

Abstract

This chapter tracks the processes leading to the unraveling of the bi-polar world of the Cold War and the emergence of neoliberal globalization, from the global revolt of 1968 to the global revolution of 1989. A third tour around the world depicts how a new paradigm based on the shrinking of state interventionism and the unleashing of corporate power combined with the emergence of information economy resulting from the information revolution and the fostering of liberal and globalist ideologies has been taking root around the world since the 1970s and for more than three decades to come.