Globalization : A Basic Text.

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.

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