ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses upon the new era of dialogue promoted through a globalization 'with a human face'. It considers the conceptual and strategic implications of this consultation and dialogue for a politics of resistance to globalization. The chapter highlights debates and concerns over the issues of authority and power in the global system. The ideological basis of the neoliberal globalization doctrine is for all states to provide a restful investment climate and for states to bow to the demands of an equally restless foreign investment. This leads to the downward cycle of discontent and inexorably the need for state-sanctioned discipline. The United Kingdom House of Commons Hansard Debates which took place on 9 December 1999 centered mainly upon identifying the many diverse costs and benefits of globalization. They also came in the light of the anti-globalization protests in Seattle.
