Thoroughly revised and updated, The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today. Fully revised and updated with new readings on global governance, world soccer, the recent global financial crisis, global health, American evangelicals, and tropical deforestation Includes coverage on economic globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, and the link between environmentalism and the globalization of social problems Features coverage that ranges across economic, political, cultural, and experiential dimensions of social change Offers a wide variety of perspectives on globalization and captures many of the fault lines in current debates Stimulates discussion by including provocative contemporary worksand by structuring sections around arguments that serve as connecting themes ÍNDICE: Sources and Acknowledgments Preface to the Fourth Edition. GeneralIntroduction. Part I Debating Globalization. Introduction. 1 The Hidden Promise: Liberty Renewed (John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge). 2 How to Judge Globalism (Amartya Sen). 3 From the Great Transformation to the Global Free Market (John Gray). 4 Jihad vs. McWorld (Benjamin Barber). 5 The Clash of Civilizations? (Samuel P. Huntington). Questions. Part II Explaining Globalization Introduction 6 The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy (Immanuel Wallerstein). 7 Sociology of the Global System (Leslie Sklair). 8 Liberalism (Scott Burchill). 9 Realism and Complex Interdependence (Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye). 10 World Society and the Nation-State (John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez). 11 Globalization as a Problem (Roland Robertson). 12 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (Arjun Appadurai). Questions. Part III Experiencing Globalization. Introduction. 13 How Sushi Went Global (Theodore Bestor). 14 McDonalds in Hong Kong (James L. Watson). 15 The Transnational Villagers (Peggy Levitt). 16 The Great Game and the Informal Empire (David Goldblatt). 17 Is Baseball a Global Sport? (William W. Kelly). Strategic Inauthenticity (Timothy Taylor). Questions. PartIV Globalization and the World Economy Introduction. 19 China Makes, The World Takes (James Fallows). 20 Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry (Miguel Korzeniewicz). 21 The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development (Gary Gereffi). 22 Incensed about Inequality (Martin Wolf). 23 Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality? (Robert Hunter Wade). 24 Social Accountability and Corporate Greenwashing (William S. Laufer). 25 Grounded: Income inequality and speculative investment led to the financial meltdown (Branko Milanovic). 26 The twin excesses - financialization and globalization - caused the crash (Ashok Bardhan). 27 Globalisms Discontents (Joseph E. Stiglitz). Questions. Part V Globalization and the Nation-State. Introduction. 28 The Declining Authority of States (Susan Strange). 29 Global Organized Crime (James H. Mittelman). 30 Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Dani Rodrik). 31 Welfare Spending in an Era of Globalization: The North South Divide (John Glenn). 32 World Culture and the Future of Schooling (David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre). Questions. PART VI Global Governance.p The International Monetary Fund (James Vreeland). 34 The Future of the Multilateral Trade System - What Role for the World Trade Organization? (Ann Capling and Richard Higgott). A New World Order (Anne-Marie Slaughter). ISO and theInfrastructure for a Global Market (Craig N. Murphy/JoAnne Yates). 37 Global Health Governance: A Conceptual Review, (Richard Dodgson, Kelley Lee, Nick Drager). 38 The Bill s Grant-making Programme for Global Health (David McCoy, Gayatri Kembhavi, Jinesh Patel, Akish Luintel).
- ISBN: 978-0-470-65563-4
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 528
- Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés