Book description
Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.
Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization
Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability
Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner
Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology
Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team
Table of contents
- COVER
- SERIES PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION PAGE
- ABOUT THE WEBSITE
- FIGURES
- PREFACE
-
CHAPTER 1: GLOBALIZATION I
- SOME OF THE BASICS
- FROM SOLIDS TO LIQUIDS (TO GASES)
- FLOWS
- HEAVY, LIGHT, WEIGHTLESS
- HEAVY STRUCTURES THAT EXPEDITE FLOWS
- HEAVY STRUCTURES AS BARRIERS TO FLOWS
- SUBTLER STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
- ON THE INCREASING UBIQUITY OF GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
- THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
-
CHAPTER 2: GLOBALIZATION II
- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION?
- IS IT GLOBALIZATION OR TRANSNATIONALIZATION?
- IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION, WHEN DID IT BEGIN?
- GLOBALIZATION OR GLOBALIZATIONS?
- WHAT DRIVES GLOBALIZATION?
- DOES GLOBALIZATION HOP RATHER THAN FLOW?
- IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION, IS IT INEXORABLE?
- DOES GLOBAPHILIA OR GLOBAPHOBIA HAVE THE UPPER HAND?
- WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN BE DONE ABOUT GLOBALIZATION?
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 3: GLOBALIZATION AND RELATED PROCESSES
-
CHAPTER 4: NEOLIBERALISM
- THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF NEOLIBERALISM
- NEOLIBERALISM: AN EXEMPLARY STATEMENT AND THE BASIC PRINCIPLES
- POPULAR NEOLIBERAL “THEORY”: THE CASE OF THOMAS FRIEDMAN
- CRITIQUING NEOLIBERALISM
- NEOLIBERALISM AS EXCEPTION
- NEOLIBERALISM: THE CASE OF ISRAEL
- THE END OF HISTORY
- THE DEATH OF NEOLIBERALISM?
- NEO-MARXIAN THEORETICAL ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
-
CHAPTER 5: GLOBAL POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
- ON POLITICAL PROCESSES AND FLOWS
- THE NATION-STATE
- IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION-STATE
- “IMAGINED COMMUNITY”
- CHANGES IN GLOBAL NATION-STATE RELATIONS
- OTHER GLOBAL POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND STRUCTURES
- REGIONAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
- GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
-
CHAPTER 6: STRUCTURING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
- BEFORE BRETTON WOODS
- BRETTON WOODS AND THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM
- THE END OF BRETTON WOODS
- CHANGES IN, AND CRITIQUES OF, BRETTON-WOODS-ERA ORGANIZATIONS
- ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
- EUROPEAN UNION (COMMON MARKET)
- NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA)
- MERCOSUR
- OPEC
- THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC)
- WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
- THE MYTH OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION?
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 7: GLOBAL ECONOMIC FLOWS
- CHAPTER 8: GLOBAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL FLOWS
- CHAPTER 9: HIGH-TECH GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
- CHAPTER 10: GLOBAL FLOWS OF PEOPLE
- CHAPTER 11: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
- CHAPTER 12: NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS AND PROCESSES
- CHAPTER 13: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES ICLASS AND RURAL–URBAN INEQUALITIES
- CHAPTER 14: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES II
- CHAPTER 15: DEALING WITH, RESISTING, AND THE FUTURES OF, GLOBALIZATION
- APPENDIX
- GLOSSARY
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
Product information
- Title: Globalization: A Basic Text, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2015
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
- ISBN: 9781118687123
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