Globalization: The Return of Borders to a Borderless World?

Front Cover
Globalization
Copyright Page
Contents
List of tables
Introduction
	Background to this book
	Can globalization be reversed?
1. What is globalization?
	The meaning(s) of globalization
		Skeptics
		Hyperglobalists
		Transformationalists
	The multiple and interdependent dimensions of globalization
	Transformational theory: territory, actors, and identity
2. Globalization in historical perspective
	Early respacializations
	The ancient Mediterranean
	Intercontinental linkages from Late Antiquity to the dawn of Europe’s “Age of Discovery”
	The Atlantic bridged, European sovereign states, empires, and global capitalism
	From the Cold War to twenty-first-century globalization
	Conclusion
3. The essentials of globalization
	Spreading capitalism
	Global governance
	The triumph of democracy?
	Global civil society
	Cultural homogenization?
	English as the lingua franca
	Transgovernmental linkages and networks
	Diffusion of global power?
	Collective environmental degradation
	From military to human security
	The changing nature of military security
4. Globalization and information and communication technologies
	ICT, geography, and territory
	Skilled and participant publics
	ICT and political participation
	Economic implications of ICT
	Security implications
	ICT, globalization, and localization
5. The global versus the local
	Deterritorialization and denationalization
	Glocalization
	The dialectical relationship between the global and the local
	Globalizing versus localizing cultural currents
	A world of shifting boundaries and evolving authority
6. The normative implications of globalization
	Central normative issues
		A “democratic deficit”?
		A cut-throat world of neoliberal capitalism
		Reactive and structural violence
		The erosion of human rights?
		A race to the bottom?
		Cultural conformity or modernity?
		Migrants, drugs, bugs, trafficking, and terrorism
		States, war, and violence
		Sovereignty and its discontents
	The counter-globalization movement
	A mixed verdict
7. Regional dynamics: Europe and Asia
	Globalization and Europe
		Western Europe
		Post-communist Central Europe
	Globalization and Asia
		Southeast Asia
		East Asia
		Central Asia
		South Asia
8. Regional dynamics: Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa
	Globalization and the Russian Federation
	Latin America
	The Middle East
	Africa
9. Two steps forward, one step back?
	Anti-globalization currents
	Nationalism and ethnicity
		The return of the state
		State failure
		Opposition to immigration
	Neomercantilism
	Environmental nationalism
10. The balance sheet
	The political dialectic
	The cultural dialectic
	The military dialectic
	The economic dialectic
	The environmental dialectic
	Enfin
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