Globalization, Second Edition A Critical

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.

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.

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

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