Globalization : a basic text

 Content: Globalization I: Liquids, flows, and structures --
 Globalization II: Some basic issues, debates, and controversies --
 Globalization and related processes I: Imperialism, Colonialism, development, Westernization, Easternization --
 Globalization and related processes II: Americanization and anti-Americanism --
 Neo-Liberalism: roots, principles, criticisms, and neo-marxian alternatives --
 Global political structures and processes --
 Structuring the global economy --
 Global economic flows: production and consumption --
 Global culture and cultural flows --
 High-Tech global flows and structures: technology, media, and the Internet --
 Global environmental flows --
 Negative global flows and processes: dangerous imports, diseases, crime, terrorism, war --
 Global inequalities I: patterns of inequality --
 Global inequalities II: Global majority-minority relations --
 Dealing with, resisting, and the futures of globalization
 Abstract:             
              The first full-scale textbook of its kind,  Globalization: A Basic Text  provides a balanced introduction to the major topics in globalization studies.                 Read more...