Tài liệu The Global Transformations Reader - An Introduction to the Globalization Debate

This completely revised and fully updated second edition brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the globalization debate and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux.
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The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the extent, form and consequences of contemporary globalization. On the one hand there are the globalists, who argue that the world is being fundamentally and irreversibly transformed by globalization. On the other hand there are the sceptics, who believe that the globalists' claims are exaggerated and poorly substantiated. The sceptics contest the very idea of globalization, arguing that the power of national governments, nationalism and geopolitics remain the determining features of our age.

This completely revised and fully updated edition of The Global Transformations Reader brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the argument and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux.

Organized as an accessible and comprehensive teaching text, the Reader is divided into six sections covering all the key issues in the debate:

* controversy over the meaning, causes and historical significance of 'globalization'
* the transformation of state power and civil society;
* changing patterns of national culture;
* the power of global markets;
* global inequality and its consequences; and
* the nature of the global order and normative aspirations for its future.

The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors, reviewing, analysing and assessing the globalization debate. Short but highly informative introductions to each section situate and contextualize the individual readings.

This Reader will be of immense value to all those interested in one of the most important debates of our time. It will appeal to students of politics, international relations, economics, sociology, geography, business studies and cultural studies.

The Global Transformations Reader is part of the internationally acclaimed series on globalization, which also includes Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture and Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance.

Part I Understanding Globalization
Introduction
1 Globalization
2 The Globalizing of Modernity
3 Rethinking Globalization
4 Globalization: What's New? What's Not? (And So What?)
5 What is ' Global' about Globalization?
6 The Problem of Globalisation Theory
7 Globalization - A Necessary Myth?
8 Clash of Globalizations
9 Globalization and American Power
10 Globalization as Empire

Part II Political Power and Civil Society: A Reconfiguration?
Introduction
11 The Declining Authority of States
12 Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?
13 Sovereignty in International Society
14 The Changing Structure of International Law: Sovereignty Transformed?
15 The Security State
16 Governing the Global Economy Through Government Networks
17 Power Shift
18 Globalization and Modes of Regionalist Governance
19 Governance i n a New Global Order

Part I I I The Fate of National Culture in an Age of Global Communication
Introduction
20 Encountering Globalization
21 The Globalization of Communication
22 The New Global Media
23 Globalization and Cultural Identity
24 Towards a Global Culture?
25 Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens

Part IV A Global Economy?
Introduction
26 A New Geo-economy
27 Global Informational Capitalism
28 The Limits to Economic Globalization
29 The Nation-State in the Global Economy
30 Global Market versus the New Regionalism
31 Globalization and the Political Economy of Capitalist Democracies
32 Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
33 Global Markets and National Politics
34 The Effect of Globalization on Taxation, Institutions, and Control of the Macroeconomy

Part V Divided World, Divided Nations?
Introduction
35 Patterns of Global Inequality
36 The Rise of the Fourth World
37 Are Global Poverty and Inequality Getting Worse?
38 Spreading the Wealth
39 Globalization and Gendered Inequality
40 Order, Globalization and Inequality in World Politics
41 The Promise of Global Institutions

Part VI World Orders, Normative Choices
Introduction
42 Global Governance: Prospects and Problems
43 Models of Transnational Democracy
44 Cosmopolitanism: Taming Globalization
45 Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic's View
46 The Post national Constellation
47 Priorities of Global Justice
48 Global Civil Society
49 A World Gone Wrong?
50 Beyond the States System?