Globalization
Material type: TextPublication details: London Routledge 2001Edition: 2th edDescription: 247pISBN:- 9780415238540
- P10.2 W315
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includes index and biblioraphy
1 A world of difference Globalizing solvents: the classical accounts Dimensions of globalization Multi-dimensional theory An explanatory theorem Globalizing developments 2 Trading places: the international economy Industrialization and modernization Convergence World capitalism World trade The international division of labour Multi-national enterprises Production systems Financial management Migrant labour Trans-national classes Main characteristics of an inter-national economy Open spaces: the globalizing economy New economies of time and space Trade The new international division of labour Alliances of capita! Cultural economies Timeless financial markets A globalized economy? States of flux: international politics Development of the nation-state Trans-national connections State functions Conflicts of interest International organizations Globalization and the states-system Wither the state? Globalizing politics Internal crisis External sovereignty New global political actors A new political culture Conclusion Clashing civilizations: international cultures Crusades and Jihads Revolutions and revivals Culture contact Globetrotters and jetsetters Conclusion New world chaos: globalizing cultures Seeing the world as `one place` Fragmentation and syncretism Consumer monarchs Compunications Tourism at home Conclusion 8 Real world arguments Not globalization but neo-Fordism Not the powerless state but the elaborating state Not postmodernization but Americanization Conclusion
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