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• COVER
• PREFACE
• ABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE
• CHAPTER 1: Globalization
• CONCEPTUALIZING GLOBALIZATION
• ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 2: Theorizing Globalization
• IMPERIALISM
• COLONIALISM
• DEVELOPMENT
• AMERICANIZATION
• NEOLIBERALISM
• NEO‐MARXIAN THEORIES
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 3: Structuring the Global Economy
• BEFORE BRETTON WOODS
• BRETTON WOODS AND THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM
• THE END OF BRETTON WOODS
• CHANGES IN, AND CRITIQUES OF, BRETTON WOODS‐ERA ORGANIZATIONS
• OTHER IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
• THE ROLE OF EMERGING ECONOMIES
• THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC)
• THE MYTH OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION?
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 4: Global Economic Flows
• TRADE
• INCREASING COMPETITION FOR COMMODITIES
• THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE FLOW OF OIL
• RACE TO THE BOTTOM AND UPGRADING
• OUTSOURCING
• FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION
• CONSUMPTION
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 5: Global Political Structures and Processes
• ON POLITICAL FLOWS
• THE NATION‐STATE
• IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION‐STATE
• “IMAGINED COMMUNITY”
• CHANGES IN GLOBAL NATION‐STATE RELATIONS
• UNITED NATIONS (UN)
• GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
• CIVIL SOCIETY
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 6: High‐Tech Global Flows and Structures
• TECHNOLOGY, TIME–SPACE COMPRESSION, AND DISTANCIATION
• MASS MEDIA
• THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 7: Global Culture and Cultural Flows
• CULTURAL DIFFERENTIALISM
• CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
• CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 8: Global Flows of Migrants
• MIGRANTS
• MIGRATION
• THE CASE AGAINST THE BACKLASH TO UNDOCUMENTED, OR “ILLEGAL,” IMMIGRATION
• REMITTANCES
• DIASPORA
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 9: Global Environmental Flows
• MODERNIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
• DIFFERENCES AMONG NATION‐STATES
• GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
• OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
• GLOBAL RESPONSES
• COLLAPSE
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 10: Negative Global Flows and Processes
• DANGEROUS IMPORTS
• BORDERLESS DISEASES
• TERRORISM
• WAR
• THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS ON INDIVIDUALS
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 11: Economic Power and Inequality
• CLASS INEQUALITY
• GLOBAL CITIES
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 12: Global Inequalities II
• DEFINING MAJORITY–MINORITY RELATIONS
• RACE AND ETHNICITY
• GENDER
• SEXUALITY
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• CHAPTER 13: Dealing with, Resisting, and the Future of Globalization
• DEALING WITH GLOBALIZATION
• RESISTING GLOBALIZATION
• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• THE FUTURES OF GLOBALIZATION
• CHAPTER SUMMARY
• FURTHER READING
• REFERENCES
• INDEX
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