Globalization: The Return of Borders to a Borderless World?

by Ferguson; Yale H.

• ISBN13: 9780415521963
• ISBN10: 0415521963
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Written by two leading scholars of global politics, this is a major new textbook for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and events. The text: identifies the different political, economic, technological, and cultural meanings of globalization; examines its historical origins from the ancient past through the cold war and into the twenty-first century; describes the multiple attributes and consequences of globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state; discusses recent trends such as the increased use of social media and events like the Arab Spring; assesses the normative implications of globalization; analyzes the challenges to globalization posed by contemporary events such as the global financial crisis. This textbook will be essential reading for all students of globalization, and will be of great interest to students of global politics and global governance.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Background to this book	p. 2
Can globalization be reversed?	p. 10
What is globalization?	p. 16
The meaning(s) of globalization	p. 17
Skeptics	p. 18
Hyperglobalists	p. 21
Transformationalists	p. 25
The multiple and interdependent dimensions of globalization	p. 26
Transformational theory: territory, actors, and identity	p. 28
Globalization in historical perspective	p. 40
Early respacializations	p. 42
The ancient Mediterranean	p. 43
Intercontinental linkages from Late Antiquity to the dawn of Europe's "Age of Discovery"	p. 50
The Atlantic bridged, European sovereign states, empires, and global capitalism	p. 54
From the Cold War to twenty-first-century globalization	p. 62
Conclusion	p. 67
The essentials of globalization	p. 75
Spreading capitalism	p. 75
Global governance	p. 78
The triumph of democracy?	p. 84
Global civil society	p. 85
Cultural homogenization?	p. 89
English as the lingua franca	p. 91
Transgovernmental linkages and networks	p. 93
Diffusion of global power?	p. 94
Collective environmental degradation	p. 96
From military to human security	p. 97
The changing nature of military security	p. 98
Globalization and information and communication technologies	p. 109
ICT, geography, and territory	p. 112
Skilled and participant publics	p. 113
ICT and political participation	p. 114
Economic implications of ICT	p. 117
Security implications	p. 120
ICT, globalization, and localization	p. 123
The global versus the local	p. 131
Deterritorialization and denationalization	p. 136
Glocalization	p. 138
The dialectical relationship between the global and the local	p. 140
Globalizing versus localizing cultural currents	p. 143
A world of shifting boundaries and evolving authority	p. 145
The normative implications of globalization	p. 152
Central normative issues	p. 155
A "democratic deficit"?	p. 155
A cut-throat world of neoliberal capitalism	p. 157
Reactive and structural violence	p. 161
The erosion of human rights?	p. 162
A race to the bottom?	p. 164
Cultural conformity or modernity?	p. 166
Migrants, drugs, bugs, trafficking, and terrorism	p. 167
States, war, and violence	p. 170
Sovereignty and its discontents	p. 171
The counter-globalization movement	p. 172
A mixed verdict	p. 176
Regional dynamics: Europe and Asia	p. 186
Globalization and Europe	p. 188
Western Europe	p. 188
Post-communist Central Europe	p. 192
Globalization and Asia	p. 194
Southeast Asia	p. 196
East Asia	p. 198
Central Asia	p. 204
South Asia	p. 207
Regional dynamics: Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa	p. 220
Globalization and the Russian Federation	p. 221
Latin America	p. 226
The Middle East	p. 231
Africa	p. 234
Two steps forward, one step back?	p. 247
Anti-globalization currents	p. 249
Nationalism and ethnicity	p. 249
The return of the state	p. 252
State failure	p. 254
Opposition to immigration	p. 256
Neomercantilism	p. 261
Environmental nationalism	p. 266
The balance sheet	p. 277
The political dialectic	p. 281
The cultural dialectic	p. 282
The military dialectic	p. 283
The economic dialectic	p. 283
The environmental dialectic	p. 285
Enfin	p. 285
Index	p. 291
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