| Description | | - Looks at the subject with an interdisciplinary framework to explain the dynamics and effects of globalization, eg economically, culturally, socially, politically, environmentally, and ideologically
- Several maps, diagrams, figures, and textboxes to provide examples and background information
- Includes a timeline that helps visualize the models of globalization
- Looks at the history of globalization: is it a new phenomena?
- Explains in accessible language the connection between economic globalization and phenomena such as multinational corporations, World Bank, IMF, and WTO
- Introduces important concepts such as 'Americanization', 'McDonaldization', and 'glocalization'.
- Discusses the role of the media and communication technologies in the process of cultural globalization
- Looks at whether globalization is a 'good' or a 'bad' thing
| | 'Globalization' has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and political activists have invoked the term to describe a variety of changing economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are alleged to have accelerated in the last few decades. Rather than forcing such a complex social phenomenon into a single conceptual framework, Manfred
Steger presents globalization in plain, readable English as a multifaceted process encompassing global, regional, and local aspects of social life. In addition to explaining the various dimensions of globalization, the author explores whether globalization should be considered a 'good' or 'bad' thing - a question that has been hotly debated in classrooms, boardrooms, and on the streets. |
Readership: General readers interested in a short and readable introduction to globalization; college students, both on the advanced undergraduate and graduate level; academics seeking to acquire a basic understanding of the various aspects of globalization.
| Contents |
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Globalization: A Contested Concept
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Is Globalization a New Phenomena?
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Globalization as Economic Process
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Globalization as Political Process
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Globalization as Cultural Process
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Globalization as Environmental Process
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Globalization as Ideological Process
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Challenges to Globalization: From the Anti-WTO Protests in Seattle tothe Terrorist Attacks on New York and Washington
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'Globalizations Studies': A New Academic Discipline?
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Manfred B. Steger, Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University and Affiliate Faculty Member and Publication Director at the Globalization Research Centre at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa
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