{"product_id":"thinking-globally-9780520278448","title":"Thinking Globally","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE:  A Friendly Introduction to Global Studies   A. INTRODUCTION  1. THINKING  GLOBALLY  What is globalization and how do we make sense of it?   Manfred Steger, \"Globalization: A Contested Concept,\" from Globalization: A Very Short Introduction   Thomas Friedman, \"The World is Ten Years Old,\" from The Lexus and the Olive Tree  Paul James, \"Approaches to Globalization,\" Encyclopedia of Global Studies   Steven Weber, \"How Globalization Went Bad,\" from Foreign Policy   2. GLOBALIZATION OVER TIME  Globalization has a history--the current global era is prefaced by periods of economic interaction, social expansion, and intense cultural encounters.   William McNeill, \"Globalization: Long-Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?\" in New Global Studies  Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, \"Imperial Trajectories,\" in Empires in World History  Immanuel Wallerstein, \"On the Study of Social Change,\" in The Modern World System    Dominic Sachsenmeier, \"Movements and Patterns: Environments of Global History\" in Global Perspectives on Global History    B. THE MARCH OF GLOBALIZATION--BY REGIONS  3. AFRICA: THE RISE OF ETHNIC POLITICS IN A GLOBAL WORLD  The impact of the slave trade and colonialization on Africa, influence of African culture on the Americas, and African aspects of the global rise of ethnic politics.  Nayan Chanda, \"The African Beginning,\" in Bound Together   Dilip Hiro, \"Slavery,\" in Encyclopedia of Global Studies  Jeffrey Haynes, \"Africa Diaspora Religions,\" from Encyclopedia of Global Studies  Jacob Olupona, from \"Thinking Globally About African Religion,\" in The Oxford Handbook of Global Religion  Okwudiba Nnoli, \"The Cycle of 'State-Ethnicity-State' in African Politics,\" from MOST Ethno-Net Africa   4. THE MIDDLE EAST: RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND ANTI-GLOBALIZATION  The rise of global religious cultures from the Middle East, and current religious politics as part of a global challenge to secularism.  Mohammed Bamyeh, \"The Ideology of the Horizons\" in The Social Origins of Islam  Said Arjomand, \"Thinking Globally About Islam,\" in Oxford Handbook of Global Religion   Jonathan Fox, \"Are Middle East Conflicts More Religious?\" in Middle East Quarterly  Barah Mikail, \"Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions,\" FRIDE policy brief   5. SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: THE FLOW OF TRADE AND CULTURE  The spread of Asian cultures from India and Central Asia via trade routes; the role of South Asia in global trade and information technology.  Richard Foltz, \"The Silk Road and Its Travelers\" in Religions of the Silk Road  Morris Rossabi, \"The Early Mongols,\" in Khublai Khan: His Life and Times  Vasudha Narayanan, \"Hinduism\" in The Encyclopedia of Global Studies  Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, \"Revolt, the Modern State, and Colonized Subjects 1848-1885\" in A Concise History of India  Carol Upadhya and A.R. Vasavi, \"Outposts of the Global Information Economy\" in In an Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India's Technology Industry    6. EAST ASIA: GLOBAL ECONOMIC EMPIRES  The role of East Asia in global economic history, and the rise of new economies in China, Japan, and South Korea based on global trade.  Kenneth Pomeranz, \"Exotic Goods and the Velocity of Fashion,\" in The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy  Andre Gunder Frank, \"The 21st Century Will Be Asian\" from The Nikkei Weekly  Steven Radelet, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jong-Wha Lee, \"Economic Growth in Asia\" in Emerging Asia  Ho-fung Hung, \"Is the Rise of China Sustainable?\" China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism   7. SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE EDGES OF GLOBALIZATION  The emergence of Southeast Asia from colonial control; the rise of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands on the edges of globalization.  Georges Coedes, \"Conclusion,\" in The Indianized States of Southeast Asia  Benedict Anderson, \"The Last Wave,\" in Imagined Communities  Sucheng Chan, \"Vietnam, 1945-2001: The Global Dimensions of Decolonization, War, Revolution, and Refugee Outflows.\"  Celeste Lipow MacLeod, \"Asian Connections,\" in Multiethnic Australia: Its History and Future  Joel Robbins, \"Pacific Islands Religious Communities, in Oxford Handbook of Global Religion   8. EUROPE AND RUSSIA: NATIONALISM AND TRANSNATIONALISM  The role of Europe in creating the concept of the nation, transnational politics in the Soviet Union, and the rise of the European Union.  Peter Stearns, \"The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?\" in Globalization in World History  Eric Hobsbawm, \"The Nation as Novelty,\" from Nations and Nationalism since 1780  Seyla Benhabib, \"Citizens, Residents, and Aliens in a Changing World\" from The Postnational Self  Odd Arne Wested, \"The Empire of Justice: Soviet Ideology and Foreign Interventions\" in The Global Cold War   Jurgen Habermas, \"Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe\" in Praxis International   9: THE AMERICAS: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES  The European conquest of the Americas, the rise of new societies, and varying patterns of economic development within a global context.  Charles C. Mann, \"Prologue,\" 1493: Discovering the New World Columbus Created   Tzvetan Todorov, \"Conquest: The Reasons for the Victory,\" in The Conquest of America  Francis Fukuyama, \"Introduction\" in Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States  Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, \"Introduction\" in Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities    C.  TRANSNATIONAL GLOBAL ISSUES  10. GLOBAL FORCES IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER  Paradigms for thinking about the new world order (or disorder) in the post-Cold War global era.  Benjamin Barber, \"Introduction\" from Jihad vs. McWorld  Samuel Huntington, \"The New Era in World Politics-A Multipolar, Multicivilizational World,\" from The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order  Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, \"Preface\" to Empire    Saskia Sassen, \"Cities,\" Encyclopedia of Global Studies   11. THE EROSION OF THE NATION-STATE  The fading strength of the nation-state and the rise of alternative conceptions of world order.  Kenichi Ohmae, \"The Cartographic Illusion\" from The End of the Nation-State  Susan Strange, \"The Westfailure System\"  from Review of International Studies  Zygmunt Bauman, \"After the Nation-State, What?\" in Globalization: The Human Consequences.  William Robinson, \"The Transnational State\" from  A Theory of Global Capitalism   12. RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER  The religious challenge to the secular state in new conceptions of political order.  Monica  Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, Timothy  Samuel Shah, \"The Twenty-First Century as God's Century,\" in God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics  Mark Juergensmeyer,  \"Religion in the New Global Order\"  Olivier Roy, \"Al Qaeda and the New Terrorists\" from Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah   Richard Falk, \"Gaining Perspectives on the Present,\" from Religion and Humane Global Governance   13. TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL LABOR  Economic globalization-- its relation to national economies, the growth of transnational corporations, and the changing role of labor.  Richard P. Appelbaum, \"Outsourcing,\" in The Encyclopedia of Global Studies  Nelson Lichtenstein, \"The Wal-Mart Template for Global Capitalism\"  in New Labor Forum  Robert B. Reich, \"Who is Us?\"  Jagdish Bhagwati, from \"Two Critiques of Globalization,\" in In Defense of Globalization  Joseph Stiglitz, from \"The Way Ahead\" in Globalization and its Discontents    14. GLOBAL FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INEQUALITY  Changes in the concept of money and international financial markets.  Benjamin J. Cohen, \"Money in International Affairs\" from The Geography of Money  Stephen J. Kobrin, \"Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets\" from USIA Electronic Journal  Glenn Firebaugh, \"Massive Global Income Inequality,\" in The New Geography of Global Income Inequality  Dani Rodrik, \"Globalization for Whom?\" Harvard Magazine    15. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN  Competing views of development and the role of women in the global economy.  Alvin Y. So, \"Conclusion\" from Social Change and Development  Mayra Buvinic, \"Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass\" from Foreign Policy pop  Kum Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kuriyan, Debashish Munshi, \"From the Edges of Development\" from On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions   16. THE HIDDEN GLOBAL ECONOMY OF SEX AND DRUGS  Illegal traffic in people and drugs, and the global attempts to control them.  David Shirk, \"Introduction,\" The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Common Threat  Eduardo Porter, \"Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War,\" New York Times  Kevin Bales, from \"The New Slavery,\" in Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy   Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, \"Introduction\" Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the Global Economy   17. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CRISES  The principal environmental and health problems that transcend national boundaries and global attempts to alleviate them.  Catherine Gautier, \"Climate Change,\" Encyclopedia of Global Studies  Ron Fujita, \"Turning the Tide,\" in Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving our Seas  Hakan Seckinelgin, \"HIV\/AIDS\" in Encyclopedia of Global Studies    18. GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA  The role of new media--video, internet, social networking--on global culture and organization.  Yudhishthir Raj Isar, \"Global Culture and Media,\" from The Encyclopedia of Global Studies   Michael Curtin, \"Media Capital in Chinese Film and Television\"  in Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV  Natana DeLong-Bas, \"The New Social Media and the Arab Spring,\" Oxford Islamic Studies Online  Pippa Norris, \"The Worldwide Digital Divide,\" Harvard University Kennedy School of Government   19. THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS  Transnational networks supporting human rights and legal protection for all.  Micheline Ishay, \"Globalization and Its Impact,\" The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era  Alison Brysk, \"Transnational Threats and Opportunities,\" in Globalization and Human Rights  Eve Darian-Smith , \"Human Rights as an Ethic of Progress,\" in Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches   David Held, \"Changing Forms of Global Order,\" Cosmopolitanism    20. THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY  The emerging sense of global citizenship, and nongovernmental organizations and movements comprising a new \"global civil society\"--is this the global future?  Mary Kaldor, \"Social Movements, NGOs and Networks\" from Global Civil Society  Jan Nederveen Pieterse, \"Shaping Globalization\" in Global Futures  Giles Gunn, \"Being Other-Wise\" from Ideas to Die for: Cosmopolitanism in a Global Era  Kwame Anthony Appiah, \"Making Conversation\" from Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864886882647,"sku":"9780520278448","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520278448.jpg?v=1722273261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-globally-9780520278448","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}