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This groundbreaking text on globalization provides a comprehensive and enlightening overview of globalization issues and topics. Emphasizing the theory and methods that social scientists employ to study globalization, the text reveals how macro globalization processes impact individual lives—from the spread of scientific discourse to which jobs are more or less likely to be offshored. The author presents a clear image of “the big globalization picture” by skillfully exploring, piece by piece, a myriad of globalization topics, debates, theories, and empirical data. Compelling chapters on theory, global civil society, democracy, cities, religion, institutions (sports, education, and health care), along with three chapters on global challenges, help readers develop a broad understanding of key topics and issues. Throughout the text, the author encourages readers to relate their personal experiences to globalization processes, allowing for a more meaningful and relevant learning experience.
Contents
Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global
Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global
Chapter Two: Studying Globalization
Chapter Two: Studying Globalization
Chapter Three: Setting the Stage: Foundations of Globalization
- Waves of Nationhood
- Early Waves of Economic Globalization
- Neo-Colonialism and Cold War Strategic Advantage
- The Contemporary Period of Nation Building
- Shaping the Modern State
- Early Globalization of Liberalism
- Establishing International Law and Organization
Chapter Four: Making the Global Economy
- Post WWII Waves of Economic Globalization
- Shaping a New Wave
- Globalization as Transitioning Industrial Sectors
- Globalization as Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Globalization as Trade in Labor
- Growing Economic Inequalities: Within and Among Societies
- The Global Economic Crisis
- The View from the World Social Forum: Civil Society Reports
- The View from the Group of 20
- The Debt Crisis
- The Circumstances of Globalization
- Shaping Globalization: The Possibility of a New Order?
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Five: Forging a Global Civil Society
- Defining Civil Society
- Emergence of Global Civil Society
- The Challenge of Democracy in Global Civil Society
- Global Civil Society: Interacting Layers of Governance
- Civil Society Case Studies
- Case Study: Treaty to Ban Landmines
- Case Study: The Environmental Regime
- The Human Rights Regime
- The Global Field
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Six: Who Gets What, When and How: Global Governance
- Propositions for Global Governance
- Summary
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Seven: Globalizing Political Culture and State Governance
- Globalization of Normative Criteria for Governance
- Wave Effects in Globalization
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Eight: Trends and Transitions in Democracy
- 2011: A New Democratic Wave?
- The Development of Democracy around the World
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Nine: Globalizing Culture: Change and Continuity
- Conversion and Divergence in Globalization
- Global Culture: Compromise and Clash
- Cultural Flows Emerging from Global Life
- Summaru
- Questions, Investigations
- Chapter Ten: Globalization and Everyday Life
- Education
- Global Patterns of Health and Health Care
- Sports
- Questions and Investigations
Chapter Eleven: Religion: Conflict and Compromise
Chapter Eleven: Religion: Conflict and Compromise
Chapter Twelve: Transborder Threats to Well-Being: Inequality and Migration
- Transborder Threats to Wellbeing: Inequality and Migration
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Inequality: The Global Pyramid
- Three Case Studies to Alleviate Poverty
- Migration
- Questions and Investigations
Chapter Thirteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Violent Conflict and Crime
- The Challege of Violent Conflict
- Peace Making and Peace Building
- Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)
- Responding to Risks
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Fourteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Food and the Environment
- A World of Contrast: Starving on a Planet of Plenty
- Threats to the Natural Environment
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Fifteen: Global Trajectories: The City
- Contemporary Cities
- Cities and the Qualities of Life
- Innovative Approaches to City Life
- Questions and Investigations
Description
This groundbreaking text on globalization provides a comprehensive and enlightening overview of globalization issues and topics. Emphasizing the theory and methods that social scientists employ to study globalization, the text reveals how macro globalization processes impact individual lives—from the spread of scientific discourse to which jobs are more or less likely to be offshored. The author presents a clear image of “the big globalization picture” by skillfully exploring, piece by piece, a myriad of globalization topics, debates, theories, and empirical data. Compelling chapters on theory, global civil society, democracy, cities, religion, institutions (sports, education, and health care), along with three chapters on global challenges, help readers develop a broad understanding of key topics and issues. Throughout the text, the author encourages readers to relate their personal experiences to globalization processes, allowing for a more meaningful and relevant learning experience.
Contents
Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global
Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global
Chapter Two: Studying Globalization
Chapter Two: Studying Globalization
Chapter Three: Setting the Stage: Foundations of Globalization
- Waves of Nationhood
- Early Waves of Economic Globalization
- Neo-Colonialism and Cold War Strategic Advantage
- The Contemporary Period of Nation Building
- Shaping the Modern State
- Early Globalization of Liberalism
- Establishing International Law and Organization
Chapter Four: Making the Global Economy
- Post WWII Waves of Economic Globalization
- Shaping a New Wave
- Globalization as Transitioning Industrial Sectors
- Globalization as Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Globalization as Trade in Labor
- Growing Economic Inequalities: Within and Among Societies
- The Global Economic Crisis
- The View from the World Social Forum: Civil Society Reports
- The View from the Group of 20
- The Debt Crisis
- The Circumstances of Globalization
- Shaping Globalization: The Possibility of a New Order?
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Five: Forging a Global Civil Society
- Defining Civil Society
- Emergence of Global Civil Society
- The Challenge of Democracy in Global Civil Society
- Global Civil Society: Interacting Layers of Governance
- Civil Society Case Studies
- Case Study: Treaty to Ban Landmines
- Case Study: The Environmental Regime
- The Human Rights Regime
- The Global Field
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Six: Who Gets What, When and How: Global Governance
- Propositions for Global Governance
- Summary
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Seven: Globalizing Political Culture and State Governance
- Globalization of Normative Criteria for Governance
- Wave Effects in Globalization
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Eight: Trends and Transitions in Democracy
- 2011: A New Democratic Wave?
- The Development of Democracy around the World
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Nine: Globalizing Culture: Change and Continuity
- Conversion and Divergence in Globalization
- Global Culture: Compromise and Clash
- Cultural Flows Emerging from Global Life
- Summaru
- Questions, Investigations
- Chapter Ten: Globalization and Everyday Life
- Education
- Global Patterns of Health and Health Care
- Sports
- Questions and Investigations
Chapter Eleven: Religion: Conflict and Compromise
Chapter Eleven: Religion: Conflict and Compromise
Chapter Twelve: Transborder Threats to Well-Being: Inequality and Migration
- Transborder Threats to Wellbeing: Inequality and Migration
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Inequality: The Global Pyramid
- Three Case Studies to Alleviate Poverty
- Migration
- Questions and Investigations
Chapter Thirteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Violent Conflict and Crime
- The Challege of Violent Conflict
- Peace Making and Peace Building
- Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)
- Responding to Risks
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Fourteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Food and the Environment
- A World of Contrast: Starving on a Planet of Plenty
- Threats to the Natural Environment
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
Chapter Fifteen: Global Trajectories: The City
- Contemporary Cities
- Cities and the Qualities of Life
- Innovative Approaches to City Life
- Questions and Investigations
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August 2013 | 552 pages | Sage US
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This groundbreaking text on globalization provides a comprehensive and enlightening overview of globalization issues and topics. Emphasizing the theory and methods that social scientists employ to study globalization, the text reveals how macro globalization processes impact individual lives—from the spread of scientific discourse to which jobs are more or less likely to be offshored. The author presents a clear image of “the big globalization picture” by skillfully exploring, piece by piece, a myriad of globalization topics, debates, theories, and empirical data. Compelling chapters on theory, global civil society, democracy, cities, religion, institutions (sports, education, and health care), along with three chapters on global challenges, help readers develop a broad understanding of key topics and issues. Throughout the text, the author encourages readers to relate their personal experiences to globalization processes, allowing for a more meaningful and relevant learning experience.
Table Of Contents:
- Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global
- Chapter Two: Studying Globalization
- Chapter Three: Setting the Stage: Foundations of Globalization
- Waves of Nationhood
- Early Waves of Economic Globalization
- Neo-Colonialism and Cold War Strategic Advantage
- The Contemporary Period of Nation Building
- Shaping the Modern State
- Early Globalization of Liberalism
- Establishing International Law and Organization
- Chapter Four: Making the Global Economy
- Post WWII Waves of Economic Globalization
- Shaping a New Wave
- Globalization as Transitioning Industrial Sectors
- Globalization as Outsourcing and Offshoring
- Globalization as Trade in Labor
- Growing Economic Inequalities: Within and Among Societies
- The Global Economic Crisis
- The View from the World Social Forum: Civil Society Reports
- The View from the Group of 20
- The Debt Crisis
- The Circumstances of Globalization
- Shaping Globalization: The Possibility of a New Order?
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Five: Forging a Global Civil Society
- Defining Civil Society
- Emergence of Global Civil Society
- The Challenge of Democracy in Global Civil Society
- Global Civil Society: Interacting Layers of Governance
- Civil Society Case Studies
- Case Study: Treaty to Ban Landmines
- Case Study: The Environmental Regime
- The Human Rights Regime
- The Global Field
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Six: Who Gets What, When and How: Global Governance
- Propositions for Global Governance
- Summary
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Seven: Globalizing Political Culture and State Governance
- Globalization of Normative Criteria for Governance
- Wave Effects in Globalization
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Eight: Trends and Transitions in Democracy
- 2011: A New Democratic Wave?
- The Development of Democracy around the World
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Nine: Globalizing Culture: Change and Continuity
- Conversion and Divergence in Globalization
- Global Culture: Compromise and Clash
- Cultural Flows Emerging from Global Life
- Summaru
- Questions, Investigations
- Chapter Ten: Globalization and Everyday Life
- Education
- Global Patterns of Health and Health Care
- Sports
- Questions and Investigations
- Chapter Eleven: Religion: Conflict and Compromise
- Chapter Twelve: Transborder Threats to Well-Being: Inequality and Migration
- Transborder Threats to Wellbeing: Inequality and Migration
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Inequality: The Global Pyramid
- Three Case Studies to Alleviate Poverty
- Migration
- Questions and Investigations
- Chapter Thirteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Violent Conflict and Crime
- The Challege of Violent Conflict
- Peace Making and Peace Building
- Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)
- Responding to Risks
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Fourteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Food and the Environment
- A World of Contrast: Starving on a Planet of Plenty
- Threats to the Natural Environment
- Questions, Investigations, and Resources
- Chapter Fifteen: Global Trajectories: The City
- Contemporary Cities
- Cities and the Qualities of Life
- Innovative Approaches to City Life
- Questions and Investigations
Recent Product Reviews:
“It's well-written, comprehensive, and challenging—perfect for critically introducing globalization to undergraduates.”
Julie Steinkopf Rice, New Mexico State University
“Clearly, the greatest strength of this book stems from the enthusiasm, expertise and passion of the author…the reader cannot help but be drawn into many of the examples and case studies.”
Ken Wade, Champlain College
“The work provides strong coverage of a variety of important theoretical perspectives related to globalization and its evolution.”
Teresa Sobieszczyk, The University of Montana