Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping our Lives

✍ Scribed by Anthony Giddens

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 128
Edition: 2nd
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence. The rise of global terrorism, like world-wide networks involving in money-laundering, drug-running and other forums of organized crime, are all parts of the dark side of globalisation.' From the new Preface: This book is based on the highly influential BBC Reith lecture series on globalisation delivered in 1999 by Anthony Giddens. Now updated with a new chapter addressing the post-September 11th global landscape, this book remains the intellectual benchmark on how globalisation is reshaping our lives. The changes are explored in five main chapters: Globalisation; Risk; Tradition; Family; and, Democracy.

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