Globalization: The nation-state and international relationsRoland Robertson, Kathleen E. White Containing articles on approaches to and theories of globalization, this collection addresses the making of the modern world from different disciplinary perspectives.This set investigates the major components of globalization in its most comprehensive sense: the nation-state and the system of international relations; the question of self-identity and the individual in the globalization process; human rights, citizenship and the environment; institutional questions including matters of media communication, education, tourism, multinational corporations, migration and intercultural communication.New introductions and a thorough index make this work an indispensable research tool. |
Contents
Discourses of globalization and the social construction | 3 |
can interdependence work? | 26 |
transnational networks and | 37 |
The changing state system and the future of global governance | 64 |
a worldwide web? | 91 |
on the state monopolization of | 107 |
Nationalism globalization and modernity | 128 |
Neither nationstate nor globalism | 153 |
unlocking the mysteries of globalization | 225 |
Implications | 238 |
Globalisation market civilisation and disciplinary neoliberalism | 256 |
representations of uneven | 282 |
emulation selective incorporation | 309 |
Society globalization and the comparative method | 328 |
After colonialism | 350 |
A borderless world? From colonialism to transnationalism | 368 |
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