Globalization, Second Edition A Critical Introduction

by Scholte, Jan Aart

• ISBN13: 9780333977026
• ISBN10: 0333977025
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-07
• Publisher: SPRINGER - VERLAG

Summary

This is a systematically revised and updated new edition of a highly-acclaimed text which was an immediate bestseller on courses around the world. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased coverage of other dimensions of globalization alongside its core focus on the rise of supraterritoriality which the author argues is globalization's most distinctive feature.

Author Biography

Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Politics and International Studies, and Associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes	xi
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Preface to the First Edition	xvii
Acknowledgements	xix
List of Abbreviations	xx
Introduction	1	(1)
Framework of analysis	2	(2)
Change and continuity	4	(2)
Normative and policy issues	6	(7)
PART I FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS
Globalization Debates	13	(36)
Main points of this chapter	13	(2)
Where to start?	15	(7)
Continuity or change?	22	(7)
Liberation or shackles?	29	(8)
What to do?	37	(10)
Conclusion	47	(2)
Defining Globalization	49	(36)
Main points of this chapter	49	(1)
Rise of the g-word	50	(2)
Starting premises for definition	52	(2)
Redundant concepts of globalization	54	(5)
A way forward	59	(16)
Qualifications	75	(9)
Conclusion	84	(1)
Globalization in History	85	(36)
Main points of this chapter	85	(2)
Intimations of globality: to the nineteenth century	87	(4)
Incipient globalization: to the mid-twentieth century	91	(10)
Contemporary accelerated globalization	101	(16)
Conclusion	117	(4)
Explaining Globalization	121	(38)
Main points of this chapter	121	(2)
Contending theories	123	(12)
An eclectic synthesis	135	(17)
Conclusion	152	(7)
PART II CHANGE AND CONTINUITY
Globalization and Production: From Capitalism to Hypercapitalism	159	(26)
Main points of this chapter	159	(2)
Expanded commodification	161	(16)
Altered organization	177	(6)
Conclusion	183	(2)
Globalization and Governance: From Statism to Polycentrism	185	(39)
Main points of this chapter	185	(3)
The obsolescence of statism	188	(4)
The reconstructed state	192	(10)
Multi-scalar public governance	202	(12)
Privatized governance	214	(4)
(Global) civil society	218	(3)
Conclusion	221	(3)
Globalization and Identity: From Nationalism to Hybridization	224	(32)
Main points of this chapter	224	(3)
Globalization and the nationality principle	227	(4)
Plural national identities	231	(8)
Nonterritorial identities	239	(13)
Hybridization	252	(2)
Conclusion	254	(2)
Globalization and Knowledge: From Rationalism to Reflexivity	256	(23)
Main points of this chapter	256	(2)
Epistemology	258	(9)
Ontology	267	(2)
Methodology	269	(4)
Aesthetics	273	(1)
Conclusion	274	(5)
PART III NORMATIVE AND POLICY ISSUES
Globalization and (In)Security	279	(37)
Main points of this chapter	279	(2)
Peace	281	(3)
Crime	284	(1)
Ecological integrity	285	(3)
Health	288	(1)
Poverty	289	(5)
Financial stability	294	(2)
Employment	296	(4)
Working conditions	300	(4)
Identity	304	(2)
Knowledge	306	(2)
Social cohesion	308	(3)
Conclusion	311	(5)
Globalization and (In)Equality	316	(32)
Main points of this chapter	316	(4)
Class inequalities	320	(5)
Country inequalities	325	(9)
Gender inequalities	334	(6)
Other inequalities	340	(4)
Conclusion	344	(4)
Globalization and (Un)Democracy	348	(34)
Main points of this chapter	348	(3)
The limits of statist liberal democracy	351	(4)
Citizen ignorance	355	(6)
Institutional process failures	361	(10)
Structural inequalities	371	(9)
Conclusion	380	(2)
(Re)constructing Future Globalizations	382	(42)
Main points of this chapter	382	(1)
General policy strategy	383	(13)
Enhancing human security	396	(8)
Enhancing social equality	404	(6)
Enhancing democracy	410	(7)
Towards implementation	417	(4)
Conclusion	421	(3)
Conclusion	424	(2)
Bibliography	426	(51)
Index	477