Globalization: A Critical IntroductionA systematically revised and updated new edition of a highly acclaimed text which was an immediate bestseller on courses around the world. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased coverage of other dimensions of globalization alongside its core focus on the rise of supraterritoriality which, the author argues, is globalization's most distinctive feature. |
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Contents
List of Boxes | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | |
Globalization and UnDemocracy | |
Globalization Debates | |
Defining Globalization | |
Globalization in History | |
Explaining Globalization | |
From Nationalism to Hybridization | |
From Rationalism to Reflexivity | |
Globalization and InSecurity | |
Globalization and InEquality | |
Globalization and UnDemocracy | |
Reconstructing Future Globalizations | |
Conclusion | |
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accelerated globalization addition agencies anthropocentric billion capitalist Chapter civil society civil society associations concept consumerism contemporary globalization contemporary history context corporate countries crossborder cultural democracy democratic ecological economic environmental epistemology example frameworks gender geography global capital global communications global finance global governance global markets global production global relations global world greater growth of transplanetary human security identity increased inequalities institutions International Internet involved issues knowledge labour liberalization Likewise macroregional major mass media Meanwhile modern Moreover movements multilateral neoliberalism neoliberalist networks nineteenth century nonterritorial OECD Organization planet political polycentric postmodernism postmodernist programmes promoted rationalist recent reformist regional regulation regulatory respect sector significant socalled social equality social relations social space solidarity South spread statism statist strategies structures substantially substate suprastate supraterritorial connectivity territorial territorialist today’s trade transformist transplanetary and supraterritorial transplanetary connectivity transworld trend twentieth century UNCTAD World Bank
Bibliographic information
| Title | Globalization: A Critical Introduction |
| Author | Jan Aart Scholte |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan International Higher Education, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0230368018, 9780230368019 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / General Political Science / Globalization Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / International Relations / General |
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