Globalisation, Hegemony and Perspective

type="main"> Globalisation has been treated as a homogenising, even Americanising, process. Its complex nature means that its effects can be observed at various levels of analysis: economic, political, social, cultural and legal. The books under review here tackle different aspects of globalisation, with the overarching theme of US hegemony and how that has been employed in the reconfiguration of the global order. Two titles deal specifically with British decline, albeit without a perspective informed by political economy, the absence of which is argued to weaken their respective analyses. The analytical purchase provided by Marxist political economy is also highlighted. Comfort , N. ( 2013 ) The Slow Death of British Industry: A Sixty-year Suicide, 1952–2012 . London : Biteback . Cox , R. W. (ed.) ( 2012 ) Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy . London : Routledge . Foster , J. B. and McChesney , R. W. ( 2012 ) The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China . New York : Monthly Review Press . Horn , L. ( 2012 ) Regulating Corporate Governance in the EU: Towards a Marketization of Corporate Control . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan . Tate , S. ( 2012 ) A Special Relationship? British Foreign Policy in the Era of American Hegemony . Manchester : Manchester University Press .