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Scholte, Jan Aart

Globalization: a critical introduction/ Jan Aart Scholte - 2nd ed. - Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - xxv, 492 p. ; 24 cm.

Framework of analysis --
Change and continuity --
Policy issues --
Framework of Analysis --
What Is Happening? --
Main points of this chapter --
Where do we start? --
Continuity or change? --
Liberation or shackles? --
What to do? --
What is 'Global' about Globalization? --
Main points of this chapter --
Rise of a buzzword --
Redundant concepts of globalization --
A distinctive concept of globalization --
A survey of global activities --
Farewell to methodological territorialism? --
Globality and territoriality --
Globalization in History --
Main points of this chapter --
The emergence of a global imagination: to the 18th century --
Incipient globalization: 1850s-1950s --
Full-scale globalization: 1960s-Present --
What Causes Globalization? --
Main points of this chapter --
The structuration of globalization --
Rationalism --
Capitalism --
Technological innovation --
Regulation --
Change and Continuity --
Globalization and Production --
Main points of this chapter --
Expanded commodification --
Altered organization --
Globalization and Governance --
Main points of this chapter --
The reconstructed state --
Multilayered public governance --
Privatized governance --
Globalization and Community --
Main points of this chapter --
Nations ... and more nations --
Nonterritorial communities --
Cosmopolitanism --
Hybridization --
Globalization and Knowledge --
Main points of this chapter --
Epistemology: modern rationality and its critics --
Ontology --
Methodology --
Aesthetics --
Policy Issues.

ISBN: 9780312236311

Subjects--Topical Terms:
International relations
Globalization
International economic relations
Commercial policy

Dewey Class. No.: 303.4 / SCH/G