Efnisyfirlit

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• Preface to the first edition
• Preface to the second edition
• List of abbreviations
• 1 A world of difference
• Globalizing solvents: the classical accounts
• Dimensions of globalization
• Multi-dimensional theory
• An explanatory theorem
• Globalizing developments
• Notes
• 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 economy
• Notes
• 3 Open spaces: the globalizing economy
• New economies of time and space
• Trade
• The new international division of labour
• Alliances of capital
• Cultural economies
• Timeless financial markets
• A globalized economy?
• Notes
• 4 States of flux: international politics
• Development of the nation-state
• Trans-national connections
• State functions
• Conflicts of interest
• North versus south
• East versus west
• International organizations
• Globalization and the states-system
• Notes
• 5 Wither the state? Globalizing politics
• Internal crisis
• External sovereignty
• Human rights
• The planetary environment
• New global political actors
• A new political culture
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 6 Clashing civilizations: international cultures
• Crusades and Jihads
• Revolutions and revivals
• Culture contact
• Globetrotters and jetsetters
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 7 New world chaos: globalizing cultures
• Seeing the world as ‘one place’
• Fragmentation and syncretism
• Consumer monarchs
• Compunications
• Tourism at home
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 8 Real world arguments
• Not globalization but neo-Fordism
• Not the powerless state but the elaborating state
• Not postmodernization but Americanization
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• Index