Broken Solidarities: How Open Global Governance Divides and Rules Abridged edition [Kietas viršelis]

This book examines how a transnational social movement against capitalist and exploitative development practices fragmented during its interaction with the World Bank Group, how the movement’s solidarity was broken in the process of interacting with the institutional politics of the organization, and how parts of the movement were co-opted. It traces the history of activism against the institution from the early 1980s, how activists gained traction during the late 1980s, how this became the Global Justice Movement in the 1990s, and how the fragmentation and decline of the movement occurred, to show how open global governance divides its critics. It describes the concepts of rule and resistance as a framework for understanding the interaction between international organizations and movements; the concept of complex rule in global governance and its dimensions; a method for understanding fragmentation; the history of the interaction between the World Bank Group and its critics, how the interaction was institutionalized, and its effects on the institutional policies and activities of the protest movement; the mechanisms through which the Global Justice Movement fragmented; and how these processes continue in the present. Distributed in the US by Marston Book Services. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Felix Anderl’s book is a stimulating analysis of the decline of social movements against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule.Reflecting on the transnational mobilizations of the 1990s, the book examines activists’ struggles to sustain their momentum. It shows how the opening up of world economic institutions contributed to complex rule in global governance, creating access for some while weakening their critique and fragmenting the overall movement.The book bridges international relations and social movement studies to observe international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.