Synopses & Reviews
"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.
Synopsis
This book offers a stimulating introduction to globalization and its varying impacts across, between, and within societies. It is a highly readable text that contributes to a better understanding of the crucial aspects and dimensions of the developments and transformations that go by the name
of globalization.
About the Author
Manfred B. Steger is Associate Professor Politics and Government at Illinois State University and Affiliate Faculty Member at the Globalization Research Center of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. His academic fields of expertise include theories and ideologies of globalization, comparative political
and social theory, theories of non-violence, and international politics. His most recent publications include Globalism: The New Market Ideology, Gandhi's Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power, Violence and its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Reader, and The Quest for Evolutionary
Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy.
Table of Contents
1. Globalization: A Contested Concept
2. Is Globalization a New Phenomena?
3. Globalization as Economic Process
4. Globalization as Political Process
5. Globalization as Cultural Process
6. Globalization as Environmental Process
7. Globalization as Ideological Process
8. Challenges to Globalization: From the Anti-WTO Protests in Seattle to the Terrorist Attacks on New York and Washington
9. 'Globalizations Studies': A New Academic Discipline?