Globalization: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780333977026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str.

Jan Aart Scholte

Opis

A systematically revised and updated new edition of a highly acclaimed text which was an immediate bestseller on courses around the world. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased coverage of other dimensions of globalization alongside its core focus on the rise of supraterritoriality which, the author argues, is globalization's most distinctive feature.

Recenzje

Reviews of previous edition:
'[S]uperb...[T]he theoretical perspective works! It informs! It clarifies! It stimulates!...This is a book that can serve as an introductory text in all fields. It is the kind of work that can help promote movement in the direction the academy, its classrooms, and its research centers should be going: toward the unity of knowledge in a world ever more tied together by nonterritorial processes, structures, and norms.' (James N. Rosenau, International Studies Review)

'Do we need another book on globalization? Jan Aart Scholte is modest enough to pose this question, but his text is a plausible riposte. What we get in here is the most accessible textbook yet produced: this book can be recommended to students with confidence that here is a coherent view of globalization that can be tested against other arguments and information...Scholte's book is the best available version of the globalization paradigm.' (Martin Shaw, Millennium)

'[A]n impressive analysis of contemporary globalization that convincingly demonstrates why superterritoriality needs to be taken more seriously in the academy and beyond.' (Tony McGrew, New Political Economy)

Reviews of current edition:
'... required reading for anyone interested in the various dimensions of contemporary globalization. Scholte has succeeded in writing a book that is, in fact, much more than an 'introduction'.' (Wil Hout, Development and Change)

Spis treści

PART I: FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS.- Globalization Debates.- Defining Globalization.- Globalization in History.- Explaining Globalization.- PART II: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY.- Globalization and Production.- Globalization and Governance.- Globalization and Identity.- Globalization and Knowledge.- PART III: NORMATIVE AND POLICY ISSUES.- Globalization and (In)Security.- Globalization and (In)Equality.- Globalization and (Un)Democracy.- Future Globalizations.- Conclusion.

O autorze

JAN AART SCHOLTE is Professor of Politics and International Studies, and Co-Director for the Study of Globalsation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, UK.