Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order

This is a must-read volume on globalization in which some of the foremost scholars in the field discuss the latest issues. Truly providing a global perspective, it includes authorship and discussions from the Global North and South, and covers the major facets of globalization: cultural, economic, ecological and political. It discusses the historical developments in governance preceding globalization, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization, and analyzes underdevelopment, anti-globalization movements, global poverty, global inequality, and the debates on international trade versus protectionism. Finally, the volume looks to the future and provides prospects for inter-civilizational understanding, rapprochement, and global cooperation. This will be of great interest to academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science and international relations, economics, social policy, social history, as well as to policy makers.

Provides the most significant research by the founders of the field as well as by second generation scholars Includes substantive essays on globalization processes and anti-globalization movements Is truly comprehensive and offers perspectives from the Global North and Global South

Auteur

Ino Rossi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at St. John's University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Anthropology Full Circle (Praeger, 1987), People in Culture (Praeger, 1980), The Logic of Culture (Bergin & Garvey, 1982).

Résumé
An encyclopedic coverage of regions and issues, some of the best scholarship in the field, and an emphasis on solutions make this book an important contribution."Miguel Angel Centeno, Princeton University
"Exceptionally diverse and comprehensive... [this] is certain to become an essential reference work on the economic, moral, human rights and civilizational aspects of globalization."Daniel Chirot, University of Washington
"...a much-needed comprehensive, updated, and non-Western-centric introduction to the origins, dynamics, and latest trends of globalization as seen from the perspectives of Global North and South."Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University
"..a timely and solid overview of the key theoretical and methodological challenges faced across the social sciences as we seek to understand the possible futures of globalization."Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, University of Maryland
"Ino Rossi has brought together a range of authors covering multiple aspects of our current condition. This diversity of engagements is what we need to sort out our major challenges."Saskia Sassen, Columbia University
"It is the best collection of studies on ecological globalization, latest impact on the Global South, millennia ascent of individual rights, and alternative designs of the future world order."Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
This is a must-read volume on globalization in which some of the foremost scholars in the field discuss the latest issues. Truly providing a global perspective, it includes authorship and discussions from the Global North and South, and covers the major facets of globalization: cultural, economic, ecological and political. It discusses the historical developments in governance preceding globalization, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization, and analyzes underdevelopment, anti-globalization movements, global poverty, global inequality, and the debates on international trade versus protectionism. Finally, the volume looks to the future and provides prospects for inter-civilizational understanding, rapprochement, and global cooperation. This will be of great interest to academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science and international relations, economics, social policy, social history, as well as to policy makers.

Contenu
Chapter 1 Introduction: Globalization and the Millennial Ascent of Individual Rights; Ino Rossi.- PART I. GLOBALIZATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY: CONCEPTUALIZING AND EXPLORING GLOBALIZATION: Introduction: Chapter 2. The Global Turn; Roland Robertson.- Chapter 3. Global Systemic Anthropology and the Analysis of Globalization; Jonathan Friedman.- Chapter4. Media, Sociocultural Change, and Meta-Culture; York Kautt.- Chapter 5. Globalization and the Challenge of the Anthropocene; Leslie Sklair.- Chapter 6. Conceptual Structures for a Theory of World Society; Rudolf Stichweh.- Chapter 7. Principles of Geo-Political Dynamics; Jonathan H. Turner.- Chapter 8. Transdisciplinarity in Globalization Research: The Global Studies Framework; Manfred B. Steger. PART: GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL: ON CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION : Chapter 9 Goals, Values, and Endemic Conicts in the New Global Culture; Martin Albrow.- Chapter 10. The Affectual Landscape of Globalization: New Migration, Generalized Discontent, and Ressentiment; Jörg Dürrschmidt.- Chapter 11. Globalization, Cosmopolitanization, and a New Research Agenda; Joy Zhang.-. PART ON POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION : Chapter 12. Global Transformations in Polity, Policy, and Politics: World Polity, Europe, and the Nation-State; Didem Buhari Gulmez.- Chapter 13. The Politics of the Adjective Global: May's Global Britain and the 'New World'; Sabine Selchow.- Chapter 14. (Postmodern) Populism as a Trope for Contested Glocality; Barrie Axford.- Chapter 15. Globalization and the Rise of the Economic State: PRC and USA in Comparison; Guoguang Wu PART: ON ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: Chapter 16. Trade Globalization and Its Consequences; Michael C. Dreiling.- Chapter 17. The Political Economy of the United States and the Structure of the Millennial World-System; Salvatore Babones.- Chapter 18. Global Inequality and Capitalist World-Economy, 1500Present: A Critique of Neo-Modernization Theories; Sahan S. Karatasli.- Chapter 19. Mind the Gaps! Clustered Obstacles to Mobility in the Core/Periphery Hierarchy; Marilyn Grell-Brisk and Christopher Chase-Dunn.- Chapter 20. Global Inequality and Global Poverty; Robert Holton. PART: ON ECOLOGICAL GLOBALIZATION: Chapter 21. Reconguring Ecology in the Twenty-FirstCentury. Social Movements as Producers of the Global Age; Geoffrey Pleyers.- Chapter 22. Globalization, Marginalization, and the External Arena; Robert Schaeffer.- Chapter 23. Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements; Christopher Chase-Dunn, James Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, and Joel Herrera.- PART: GLOBALIZATION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: VIEWS FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC: Globalization and Political Economy Chapter 24. Globalization in Asia or Asian Globalization?; Habibul Haque Khondker.- Chapter 25. China's Global Rise: From Socialist Self-reliance to the Embracement of Economic Globalization; Yin-wah Chu.- Chapter 26. The Newness of the Chinese Developmental State Under Xi's Administration; Falin Zhang.- Chapter 27. India's Transition: A New Complex of Capitalism and Hindu Nationalism; Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar, and Sayonee Majumdar.- Chapter 28. Socially Sustainable Globalization? The Domestic Politics of Globalization in Australia; Tom Conley. Part: Impact of Globalization on Culture.- Chapter 29. Neoliberalism Without Guarantees: The Glocality of Labor,Education, and Sport in Japan from the 1980s to the 2000s; Koji Kobayashi and Steven J. Jackson.- Chapter 30. The Impact of Globalization on Chinese Culture and Glocalized Practices in China; Ning Wang.- Chapter 31. Border-Crossing and Interfacing in Asia: Approaches, Patterns, and Consequences; Ming-Chang Tsai.- Chapter 32. Transformations in Kinship Relations in a Globalized India: Interrogating Marriage, Law, and Intimacy; Rukmini Sen Part: Globalization, Law and Democracy.- Chapter 33. The Ascent of Asian Strongmen: Emerging Market Populism and t…