Globalization : A Basic Text.
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Language: | English |
Imprint: | Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015. |
Series: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- SERIES PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION PAGE
- ABOUT THE WEBSITE
- FOR STUDENTS
- FOR INSTRUCTORS
- FIGURES
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER 1: GLOBALIZATION I
- SOME OF THE BASICS
- FROM SOLIDS TO LIQUIDS (TO GASES)
- FLOWS
- HEAVY, LIGHT, WEIGHTLESS
- HEAVY STRUCTURES THAT EXPEDITE FLOWS
- HEAVY STRUCTURES AS BARRIERS TO FLOWS
- SUBTLER STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
- ON THE INCREASING UBIQUITY OF GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
- THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 2: GLOBALIZATION II
- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION?
- IS IT GLOBALIZATION OR TRANSNATIONALIZATION?
- IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION, WHEN DID IT BEGIN?
- GLOBALIZATION OR GLOBALIZATIONS?
- WHAT DRIVES GLOBALIZATION?
- DOES GLOBALIZATION HOP RATHER THAN FLOW?
- IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION, IS IT INEXORABLE?
- DOES GLOBAPHILIA OR GLOBAPHOBIA HAVE THE UPPER HAND?
- WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN BE DONE ABOUT GLOBALIZATION?
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 3: GLOBALIZATION AND RELATED PROCESSES
- IMPERIALISM
- COLONIALISM
- DEVELOPMENT
- WESTERNIZATION
- EASTERNIZATION
- AMERICANIZATION
- COMPARISONS WITH GLOBALIZATION
- THE ERA OF THE "POSTS"
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 4: NEOLIBERALISM
- THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF NEOLIBERALISM
- NEOLIBERALISM: AN EXEMPLARY STATEMENT AND THE BASIC PRINCIPLES
- POPULAR NEOLIBERAL "THEORY": THE CASE OF THOMAS FRIEDMAN
- CRITIQUING NEOLIBERALISM
- NEOLIBERALISM AS EXCEPTION
- NEOLIBERALISM: THE CASE OF ISRAEL
- THE END OF HISTORY
- THE DEATH OF NEOLIBERALISM?
- NEO-MARXIAN THEORETICAL ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS.
- CHAPTER 5: GLOBAL POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
- ON POLITICAL PROCESSES AND FLOWS
- THE NATION-STATE
- IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION-STATE
- "IMAGINED COMMUNITY"
- CHANGES IN GLOBAL NATION-STATE RELATIONS
- OTHER GLOBAL POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND STRUCTURES
- REGIONAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
- GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 6: STRUCTURING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
- BEFORE BRETTON WOODS
- BRETTON WOODS AND THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM
- THE END OF BRETTON WOODS
- CHANGES IN, AND CRITIQUES OF, BRETTON-WOODS-ERA ORGANIZATIONS
- ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
- EUROPEAN UNION (COMMON MARKET)
- NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA)
- MERCOSUR
- OPEC
- THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC)
- WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
- THE MYTH OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION?
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 7: GLOBAL ECONOMIC FLOWS
- TRADE
- INCREASING COMPETITION FOR COMMODITIES
- THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE FLOW OF OIL
- RACE TO THE BOTTOM AND UPGRADING
- OUTSOURCING
- FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION
- CORPORATIONS, PEOPLE, AND IDEAS
- CONSUMPTION
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 8: GLOBAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL FLOWS
- CULTURAL DIFFERENTIALISM
- CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
- CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 9: HIGH-TECH GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
- TECHNOLOGY, TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION, AND DISTANCIATION
- MASS MEDIA
- THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 10: GLOBAL FLOWS OF PEOPLE
- MIGRANTS
- MIGRATION
- HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- TOURISM
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS.
- CHAPTER 11: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
- Modernization And Environmental FLOWS
- DIFFERENCES AMONG NATION-STATES
- GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
- OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
- GLOBAL RESPONSES
- FROM LIGHTNESS TO HEAVINESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
- COLLAPSE
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 12: NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS AND PROCESSES
- DANGEROUS IMPORTS
- BORDERLESS DISEASES
- CRIME
- TERRORISM
- WAR
- THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS ON INDIVIDUALS
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 13: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES ICLASS AND RURAL-URBAN INEQUALITIES
- CLASS INEQUALITY
- RURAL-URBAN INEQUALITY
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 14: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES II
- DEFINING MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS
- RACE AND ETHNICITY
- GENDER
- SEXUALITY
- RESPONDING TO AND RESISTING GLOBAL MINORITY STATUS: THE CASE OF WOMEN
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER 15: DEALING WITH, RESISTING, AND THE FUTURES OF, GLOBALIZATION
- DEALING WITH GLOBALIZATION
- ALTER-GLOBALIZATIONS
- THE FUTURES OF GLOBALIZATION
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- APPENDIX
- ANTHROPOLOGY
- SOCIOLOGY
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- ECONOMICS
- GEOGRAPHY
- PSYCHOLOGY
- LITERARY CRITICISM (POSTCOLONIAL)
- OTHER FIELDS
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- GLOSSARY
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT.