ISBN:
9781118687130
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (730 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Globalization
Abstract:
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.
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