Peoples’ Movements: the antisystemic challenge

Abstract

Susan Strange’s chapter depicts the new reality of dominant forces in global political economy. These forces constitute a global system of world order. Alongside and quasi-submerged within this system are other forces, latent and emergent, which challenge the system’s long term stability. These antisystemic forces express the resistance of people, coalesced around different grievances and different principles of identity, to the disruptive impact upon them of the dominant forces. They challenge the official political authorities at local, national and international levels, and the often less visible authorities of world economy.