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The radical assurance of the anti-globalisation movement has cast governments and corporations in the role of ruthless capitalists who care little for the world’s poor, or the planet itself. This has had a profound effect on politicians who have been put on the defensive, as John Lloyd’s trenchant analysis of the ‘global movements’ shows. He argues that it is vital that politicians develop legitimate international institutions to match the emerging global society that is currently being shaped by world markets.