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Globalization - The Essentials

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A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era
 
Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers. Globalization: The Essentials explores the flows, structures, processes, and consequences of globalization in the modern economic, political, and cultural landscape. This comprehensive introduction offers balanced coverage of areas such as global economic and cultural flows, environmental sustainability, the impact of technology, and racial, economic, and gender inequality -- providing readers with foundational knowledge of globalization.
 
Extensively revised and updated, this second edition includes expanded coverage of human trafficking and migration, global climate change, fake news and information wars, and transnational social movements with increased emphasis on examples from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia:
* Offers a straightforward approach to the multiple facets of globalization and their positive and negative influences on contemporary society
* Employs unique metaphors and a coherent narrative structure to promote intuitive understanding of abstract concepts
* Introduces cutting-edge research, updated statistics, and real-world examples in areas such as rising global populism, social justice movements, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies
* Provides an efficient and flexible pedagogical structure, allowing integration with instructor's own course material
 
Emphasizing student comprehension, a wide range of source material is incorporated including empirical research, relevant theories, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular books and monographs. Examples of current research and recent global developments, such as emerging economies and global health concerns, encourage classroom discussion and promote independent study. Globalization: The Essentials -- a compact edition of the authors' full-sized textbook Globalization: A Basic Text -- provides concise coverage of the central concepts of this dynamic field. Offering a multidisciplinary approach, this textbook is an invaluable primary or supplemental resource for undergraduate study in any social science field, as well as coursework on economics, migration, inequality and stratification, and politics.

List of contents

Preface xii
 
About the Companion Website xiii
 
1 Globalization 1
 
Conceptualization, Origins, and History Conceptualizing Globalization 3
 
From "Solids" to "Liquids" 4
 
"Flows" 7
 
"Heavy" and "Light" 8
 
"Heavy" Structures that Expedite "Flows" 10
 
"Heavy" Structures as Barriers to "Flows" 12
 
Subtler Structural Barriers 16
 
Origins and History of Globalization 17
 
Hardwired 17
 
Cycles 18
 
Phases 18
 
Events 19
 
Broader, More Recent Changes 20
 
Chapter Summary 23
 
Discussion Questions 24
 
Further Reading 24
 
References 25
 
2 Theorizing Globalization 29
 
Imperialism 30
 
Colonialism 32
 
Development 33
 
Americanization 35
 
Anti-Americanism as a Global Process 37
 
Neoliberalism 38
 
Neoliberalism: Basic Ideas 41
 
The Neoliberal State 42
 
Critiquing Neoliberalism: Karl Polanyi 43
 
Contemporary Criticisms of Neoliberalism 44
 
Neo-Marxian Theories 46
 
Transnational Capitalism 46
 
Empire 48
 
Chapter Summary 51
 
Discussion Questions 53
 
Further Reading 53
 
References 54
 
3 Structuring the Global Economy 58
 
Before Bretton Woods 59
 
A Prior Epoch of Globalization 59
 
Economic Development During and After WW II 60
 
Bretton Woods and the Bretton Woods System 61
 
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 63
 
World Trade Organization (WTO) 64
 
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 65
 
World Bank 67
 
The End of Bretton Woods 69
 
Changes in, and Critiques of, Bretton Woods-Era Organizations 70
 
Other Important Economic Organizations 74
 
The Role of Emerging Economies 75
 
The Multinational Corporation (MNC) 76
 
The Myth of Economic Globalization? 79
 
Chapter Summary 80
 
Discussion Questions 81
 
Further Reading 81
 
References 82
 
4 Global Economic Flows 85
 
Trade 86
 
Trade Surpluses and Deficits 86
 
Global Trade: Economic Chains and Networks 87
 
Global Value Chains 88
 
T-Shirts 88
 
iPhones 90
 
Conventional, Hybrid, and Electric Automobiles 91
 
Increasing Competition for Commodities 92
 
The Economic Impact of the Flow of Oil 93
 
Oil Wealth 94
 
Race to the Bottom and Upgrading 96
 
Upgrading in the Less Developed World? 96
 
Outsourcing 98
 
Financial Globalization 100
 
The Great Recession 100
 
Consumption 104
 
Consumer Objects and Services 106
 
Consumers 106
 
Consumption Processes 106
 
Consumption Sites 107
 
Global Resistance 107
 
Chapter Summary 108
 
Discussion Questions 109
 
Further Reading 109
 
References 109
 
5 Global Political Structures and Processes 113
 
On Political Flows 114
 
The Nation-State 115
 
Threats to the Nation-State 116
 
Global Flows 116
 
Universal Human Rights 117
 
Sustainability and Liquid Sovereignty 118
 
In Defense of the Nation-State 119
 
"Imagined Community" 120
 
Changes in Global Nation-State Relations 122
 
The European Union and Brexit 122
 
China 125
 
United Nations (UN) 126
 
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 127
 
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and C

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