Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization (Google eBook)

David Singh Grewal

Yale University Press, 2008 - Political Science - 405 pages

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Review: Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization

User Review  - Chris Bronsk - Goodreads

Grewal gives some useful insight into the network society and is right to want to move globalization debates beyond the predictable dualisms. But his claim to view network power as a theory of ...

Review: Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization

User Review  - Chris - Goodreads

Garbage. Simplistic analysis and baseless suppositions in awkward, bloated writing.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Chapter 1 Defining Network Power: 17
• Chapter 2 The Power of Sociability: 44
• Chapter 3 English and Gold: 70
• Chapter 4 Power and Choice in Networks: 106
• Chapter 5 Evaluating Network Power: 141
• Chapter 6 Countering Network Power: 166
• Chapter 7 Network Power in Technology: 193
• Chapter 8 Global Trade and Network Power: 225
• Chapter 10 Network Power and Cultural Convergence: 266
• Conclusion: 292
• Notes: 297
• Bibliography: 377
• Index: 395

Bibliographic information

• Title: Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization
• Author: David Singh Grewal
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0300145128, 9780300145120
• Length: 405 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Business Communication / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies; Political Science / Globalization; Political Science / International Relations / General; Social Science / General