From the Book - Second edition.
Introduction : Concepts of globalization
Perspectives on globalization : divergence or convergence?
The history of globalization : pre-modern, modern or postmodern?
Technology, economy and the globalization of culture
The globalization of culture : homogeneous or hybrid?
Global migration : inequality and history
The effects of migration : is migration a problem or a solution?
The global economy : capitalism and the economic bases of globalization
Global inequality : is globalization a solution to world poverty?
Politics, the state and globalization : the end of the nation-state and social democracy?
Global politics and cosmopolitan democracy
Anti-globalization and global justice movements
The future world order : the decline of American power and the rise of China?
