List of Figures |
Preface to the First Edition |
Preface to the Second Edition |
List of Abbreviations |
A world of difference / 1: |
Globalizing solvents: the classical accounts |
Dimensions of globalization |
Multi-dimensional theory |
An explanatory theorem |
Globalizing developments |
Trading places: the international economy / 2: |
Industrialization and modernization |
Convergence |
World capitalism |
World trade |
The international division of labour |
Multi-national enterprises |
Production systems |
Financial management |
Migrant labour |
Trans-national classes |
Main characteristics of an inter-national economy |
Open spaces: the globalizing economy / 3: |
New economies of time and space |
Trade |
The new international division of labour |
Alliances of capital |
Cultural economies |
Timeless financial markets |
A globalized economy? |
States of flux: international politics / 4: |
Development of the nation-state |
Trans-national connections |
State functions |
Conflicts of interest |
International organizations |
Globalization and the states-system |
Wither the state? Globalizing politics / 5: |
Internal crisis |
External sovereignty |
New global political actors |
A new political culture |
Conclusion |
Clashing civilizations: international cultures / 6: |
Crusades and Jihads |
Revolutions and revivals |
Culture contact |
Globetrotters and jetsetters |
New world chaos: globalizing cultures / 7: |
Seeing the world as 'one place' |
Fragmentation and syncretism |
Consumer monarchs |
Compunications |
Tourism at home |
Real world arguments / 8: |
Not globalization but neo-Fordism |
Not the powerless state but the elaborating state |
Not postmodernization but Americanization |
References |
Index |
List of Figures |
Preface to the First Edition |
Preface to the Second Edition |