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• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction to the Second Edition
• Debate and Controversy
• Globalization and Inequality
• Globalization and the Environment
• Limits to Globalization
• Understanding Globalization: Old Themes and New Challenges
• Global Complexities
• The Robustness of the Nation State
• Nationalism and Ethnicity
• Understanding Globalization: Questions of Time and Space
• The History and Geography of Globalization
• One World or Many?
• Definitions, Concepts and Representations
• Globalization and the Need for a Multidisciplinary Research Base
• The Author’s Social Location
• Book Plan: Linking Globalization with the Nation State
• 2 The Long History of Globalization
• Preliminary Issues
• History of Global Structures and Networks
• Globalization and Civilization
• Understanding Globalization: Seeing the World as a Single Place
• Summarizing Why Images of the World Matter
• Four Images of World Order
• Globalization, the Great Divide and Alternative Global Histories
• Recent Phases in the History of Globalization
• Concluding Remarks
• 3 The Global Economy
• The Recent Intensification of Economic Globalization
• Some Contours of Economic Globalization
• The Multinational Enterprise: Global Organization of Production and Consumption
• Global Marketing and the Consumer
• The Wider Institutionalization of the Global Economy
• Organizations and Networks
• Institutional Regulation of the Global Economy
• The Global Economy, Global Regulation and the Nation State
• Economic Regulation: An Unequal Multi-actor System
• Conclusion
• 4 Is the Nation State Finished?
• Defining the Nation State
• Variations and Commonalities Among Nation States in Relation to Global Challenges
• Globalization and the Sovereignty of the State
• Global Capitalism, MNEs and the Nation State
• Dilemmas Facing the Nation State
• Are there State-Based Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism?
• Multinationals and the Third World
• The Historical Dynamic of the Nation State
• Conclusion: The Nation State and Multiple Challenges to State Sovereignty
• 5 Global Governance: Towards a Global Polity?
• Introduction
• A Short Historical Sociology of the Global Polity
• The Internationalization of the State and the UN
• Nation States and Beyond
• Environmental Protection: A Case Study in the Operation of the Emerging Global Polity
• Conceptualizing Global Politics
• Conclusion
• 6 Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Globalizing World
• Some Initial Conceptual and Historical Guidelines
• Nationalism and the Nation State
• Theories of Nationalism and the Nation State
• The Invention of Tradition
• Nationalism: Making Sense of a Complex Debate
• Ethnicity and Nationhood
• Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
• Globalization, Nation State and Ethnicity
• Conclusion
• 7 Globalization and Culture?
• Defining Culture
• Globalization, Cultural Dominance and Cultural Homogenization
• Cultural Homogenization and Americanization
• Polarization, not Homogenization
• Hybridization
• Is Global Culture becoming Cosmopolitan?
• Conclusion
• 8 Conclusion
• Analytical Challenges
• Is Globalization about to be Superseded by a Resurgence of Nation States?
• What Should be Done about Globalization? Is it Good or Bad?
• Are there Grounds for Global Optimism?
• Drawing a Moral Balance Sheet?
• Bibliography
• Index