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Globalization / Malcolm Waters.
Lippincott Library HF1359 .W39 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waters, Malcolm, 1946-
- Series:
- Key ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International economic relations--Social aspects.
- International economic relations.
- International relations--Social aspects.
- International relations.
- Cultural relations.
- International finance--Social aspects.
- International finance.
- Internationalism.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying the centre of sociological debates. Widely discussed by journalists and a key goal for many businesses, globalization has become a buzz word in recent years. In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of Globalization, Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the process, including a chapter on the critiques of the globalization thesis that have emerged since the first edition was published. In addition to this Waters considers the direction in which the world is heading.
- Contents:
- 1 A world of difference 1
- Globalizing solvents: the classical accounts 7
- Dimensions of globalization 10
- Multi-dimensional theory 14
- An explanatory theorem 17
- Globalizing developments 21
- 2 Trading places: the international economy 26
- Industrialization and modernization 28
- Convergence 31
- World capitalism 34
- World trade 40
- The international division of labour 44
- Multi-national enterprises 46
- Production systems 49
- Financial management 50
- Migrant labour 52
- Trans-national classes 54
- Main characteristics of an inter-national economy 56
- 3 Open spaces: the globalizing economy 60
- New economies of time and space 61
- Trade 68
- The new international division of labour 71
- Alliances of capital 76
- Cultural economies 78
- Timeless financial markets 85
- A globalized economy? 88
- 4 States of flux: international politics 94
- Development of the nation-state 96
- Trans-national connections 98
- State functions 106
- Conflicts of interest 110
- International organizations 116
- Globalization and the states-system 119
- 5 Wither the state? Globalizing politics 123
- Internal crisis 127
- External sovereignty 130
- New global political actors 146
- A new political culture 152
- 6 Clashing civilizations: international cultures 160
- Crusades and Jihads 161
- Revolutions and revivals 165
- Culture contact 170
- Globetrotters and jetsetters 175
- 7 New world chaos: globalizing cultures 182
- Seeing the world as 'one place' 184
- Fragmentation and syncretism 187
- Consumer monarchs 196
- Compunications 201
- Tourism at home 206
- 8 Real world arguments 210
- Not globalization but neo-Fordism 212
- Not the powerless state but the elaborating state 218
- Not postmodernization but Americanization 222.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415238536
- 0415238544
- OCLC:
- 44550523
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