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Globalization : a critical introduction / Jan Aart Scholte.
LIBRA JZ1318 .S36 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scholte, Jan Aart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 361 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Written by a leading authority, Jan Aart Scholte's book provides a concise but broad-ranging introduction to globalization covering its definition, measurement, history, causes, consequences and policy implications. The book analyzes the cultural, ecological, economic, geographical, political and psychological aspects of globalization, and provides a carefully weighed and richly illustrated assessment of the benefits and ills that have flowed from globalization as wel as suggestions for steering it towards more positive otucomes in the future.
- Contents:
- Framework of analysis 2
- Change and continuity 4
- Policy issues 5
- Part I Framework of Analysis
- 1 What Is Happening? 13
- Main points of this chapter 13
- Where do we start? 14
- Continuity or change? 20
- Liberation or shackles? 25
- What to do? 33
- 2 What is 'Global' about Globalization? 41
- Main points of this chapter 41
- Rise of a buzzword 43
- Redundant concepts of globalization 44
- A distinctive concept of globalization 46
- A survey of global activities 50
- Farewell to methodological territorialism? 55
- Globality and territoriality 59
- 3 Globalization in History 62
- Main points of this chapter 62
- The emergence of a global imagination: to the 18th century 63
- Incipient globalization: 1850s-1950s 65
- Full-scale globalization: 1960s-Present 73
- 4 What Causes Globalization? 89
- Main points of this chapter 89
- The structuration of globalization 91
- Rationalism 93
- Capitalism 95
- Technological innovation 99
- Regulation 101
- Part II Change and Continuity
- 5 Globalization and Production 111
- Main points of this chapter 111
- Expanded commodification 112
- Altered organization 124
- 6 Globalization and Governance 132
- Main points of this chapter 132
- The reconstructed state 134
- Multilayered public governance 143
- Privatized governance 151
- 7 Globalization and Community 159
- Main points of this chapter 159
- Nations ... and more nations 161
- Nonterritorial communities 172
- Cosmopolitanism 178
- Hybridization 180
- 8 Globalization and Knowledge 184
- Main points of this chapter 184
- Epistemology: modern rationality and its critics 186
- Ontology 195
- Methodology 197
- Aesthetics 200
- Part III Policy Issues
- 9 Globalization and (In)Security 207
- Main points of this chapter 207
- Peace 208
- Ecological integrity 211
- Subsistence 213
- Financial stability 217
- Employment 218
- Working conditions 222
- Identity 226
- Social cohesion 227
- Knowledge 230
- 10 Globalization and (In)Justice 234
- Main points of this chapter 234
- Class stratification 237
- Country stratification 242
- Gender stratification 249
- Other stratifications 255
- 11 Globalization and (Un)Democracy 261
- Main points of this chapter 261
- Globalization and democracy through the state 263
- Democracy in multilayered governance 267
- Democracy through the global marketplace? 272
- Democracy through global communications? 275
- Democracy through global civil society? 277
- 12 Humane Global Futures 283
- Main points of this chapter 283
- General policy strategy 284
- Enhancing human security 291
- Enhancing social justice 297
- Enhancing democracy 302
- Challenges of implementation 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 031223631X
- 0312236328
- OCLC:
- 44420757
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