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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the...

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Main Authors: Cooper, Andrew Fenton, 1950
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: International political economy series
Subjects:
Internet gambling > Political aspects > Antigua and Barbuda > Antigua
Internet gambling > Political aspects > United States
Investments, Foreign
Capitalism
International relations > Antigua & Barbuda
Political economy > Antigua & Barbuda
Internet & WWW industries > Antigua & Barbuda
Finance > Antigua & Barbuda
Politics and Government
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230307766
Summary: In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the stigmatization of 'Casino Capitalism'.
'Cooper's study of the global Internet gambling industry captures like in a holographic image the complexities and nuance of contemporary international politics where morality, regulatory and material interests clash and intersect. It is a superb study that questions our conventional notions of power, interest or outcomes in a globalized political economy.' -- Ronen Palan, Professor of International Political Economy, University of Birmingham, UK 'As Andrew Cooper shows in this absolutely fascinating book, "casino capitalism" is not just a metaphor for a wheeling-and-dealing global financial
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230293458, 2011.
Carrier Form: 224 p.
ISBN: 9780230293458
9780230307766 :
0230307760 :
CLC: F830.59
Contents: Introduction--Reconfiguring Casino Capitalism Virtual Vice or Innovative Virtue? The US Takes a Hard Line: Stigmatizing the Internet Gambling Industry Antigua Responds: The Commercialization of Diplomacy Taking the Struggle (through the WTO) to the US The Global Reach of the 'Big Chill' on Internet Gambling The Big Implications of a Small but Straddling Case.

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