Content: Globalization I: Liquids, flows, and structures --
Globalization II: Some basic issues, debates, and controversies --
Globalization and related processes I: Imperialism, Colonialism, development, Westernization, Easternization --
Globalization and related processes II: Americanization and anti-Americanism --
Neo-Liberalism: roots, principles, criticisms, and neo-marxian alternatives --
Global political structures and processes --
Structuring the global economy --
Global economic flows: production and consumption --
Global culture and cultural flows --
High-Tech global flows and structures: technology, media, and the Internet --
Global environmental flows --
Negative global flows and processes: dangerous imports, diseases, crime, terrorism, war --
Global inequalities I: patterns of inequality --
Global inequalities II: Global majority-minority relations --
Dealing with, resisting, and the futures of globalization
Abstract:
The first full-scale textbook of its kind, Globalization: A Basic Text provides a balanced introduction to the major topics in globalization studies. Read more...
