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Globalization, within academic, political and business circles alike, conjures an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations and attendant mythologies. In this volume a distinguished array of international academics assess the contribution of the globalization thesis, in its various guises, to our understanding of social, political and economic change in contemporary societies. They expose, challenge and demystify many of the exaggerated and overgeneralized claims made about globalization, whilst developing a distinctive 'third wave' perspective on the world we inhabit and the processes currently reconfiguring it.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Demystifying Globalization; C.Hay & D.Marsh PART I: WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION? Unpacking Globalization: Approaches, Evidence and Data; A.Busch Izations of the World: Americanization, Modernization and Globalization; P.J.Taylor State Sovereignty, Globalization and the Rise of Soft Capitalism; N.Thrift PART II: GLOBALIZATION, REGIONALIZATION AND NATIONAL DIVERSITY Globalization and its 'Other(s)': Three 'New Kinds of Orientalism' and the Political Economy of Trans-border Identity; N.L.Sum Globalization and Regionalization in Central Europe: Positive and Negative Responses to the Global Challenge; A.Agh In, But Not Of the World? Japan, Globalization and the 'End of History'; J.Clammer Globalization and European Integration; D.Wincott Index
