New age globalization : meaning and metaphors / Aqueil Ahmad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmad, Aqueil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Physical Description:

303 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Using the frameworks of systems theory, modernization, and the world system, New Age Globalization presents a composite multilevel, multidirectional picture of globalization. Informed by eight different but interdependent subsystems, this book explores globalization in a light unlike most other works that imply globalization to be nothing more than the global economy. The eight subsystems-or dimensions of globalization-include global demographic, economic, environmental-ecological, political, conflictive, cultural, scientific-technological, and religious subsystems. The result of these multiple perspectives and data sources are of interest to a large cross-section of scholars, business leaders, and policy-makers, working in a world order that can make or unmake the lives of millions of people around the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Conceptual Framework for Exploring New Age Globalization 17

2 Global Population and Demographic Trends 33

3 The Global Economy (or Economic Globalization) 61

4 The Global Ecological/Environmental System 103

5 The Global Political System (or Political Globalization) 127

6 Global Conflicts 155

7 Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization) 169

8 Globalization of Knowledge, Science, and Technology: The Past, Present, and Future 179

9 World Religions 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137293411

1137293411

OCLC:

855730570