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List of Figures | |
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Preface | |
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Globalization I: Liquids, Flows, and Structures | |
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Some of the Basics | |
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From Solids to Liquids (to Gases | |
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Flows | |
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Does Globalization Hop Rather Than Flow? | |
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Heavy, Light, Weightless | |
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Heavy Structures That Expedite Flows | |
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Heavy Structures as Barriers to Flows | |
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Subtler Structural Barriers | |
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Structure and Process | |
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On the Increasing Ubiquity of Global Flows (and Processes) and Structures | |
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Thinking About Global Flows and Structures | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Globalization II: Some Basic Issues, Debates, and Controversies | |
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Is There Such a Thing as Globalization? | |
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If There Is Such a Thing as Globalization, When Did It Begin? | |
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Globalization or Globalizations? | |
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What Drives Globalization? | |
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If There Is Such a Thing as Globalization, Is It Inexorable? | |
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Does Globaphilia or Globaphobia Have the Upper Hand? | |
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If Globalization Is Not Inexorable, Has It Gone Too Far? | |
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What, if Anything, Can be Done About Globalization? | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Globalization and Related Processes I: Imperialism, Colonialism, Development, Westernization, Easternization | |
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Imperialism | |
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Colonialism | |
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Development | |
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Westernization | |
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Easternization | |
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Comparisons with Globalization | |
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The Era of the "Posts" | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Globalization and Related Processes II: Americanization and Anti-Americanism | |
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Clarifying Americanization | |
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Some Useful Conceptual Distinctions | |
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America�s Logistical Technologies | |
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A Broader and Deeper View of the Americanization of Consumer Culture | |
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An American Empire? | |
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Minimizing the Importance of Americanization | |
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Anti-Americanism | |
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Post-Americanization | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Neo-Liberalism: Roots, Principles, Criticisms, and Neo-Marxian Alternatives | |
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The Past, Present, and Future of Neo-Liberalism | |
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Neo-Liberalism: An Exemplary Statement and the Basic Principles | |
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Popular Neo-Liberal "Theory": The Case of Thomas Friedman | |
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Critiquing Neo-Liberalism | |
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Neo-Liberalism as Exception | |
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Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Israel | |
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The End of History | |
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The Death of Neo-Liberalism? | |
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Neo-Marxian Theoretical Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Political Structures and Processes | |
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On Political Processes and Flows | |
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The Nation-State | |
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Threats to the Nation-State | |
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In Defense of the Nation-State | |
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"Imagined Community" | |
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Changes in Global Nation-State Relations | |
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Other Global Political Developments and Structures | |
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Regional Political Organizations | |
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Global Governance | |
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Civil Society | |
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Other Players | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Structuring the Global Economy | |
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Before Bretton Woods | |
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Bretton Woods and the Bretton Woods System | |
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The End of Bretton Woods | |
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Changes in, and Critiques of, Bretton-Woods-Era Organizations | |
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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD | |
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European Union (Common Market | |
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North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA | |
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MERCOSUR | |
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OPEC | |
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The Multinational Corporation (MNC | |
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World Economic Forum | |
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The Myth of Economic Globalization? | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Economic Flows: Production and Consumption | |
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Trade | |
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Increasing Competition for Commodities | |
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The Economic Impact of the Flow of Oil | |
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Race to the Bottom and Upgrading | |
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Outsourcing | |
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Financial Globalization | |
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Corporations, People, and Ideas | |
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Consumption | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Culture and Cultural Flows | |
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Cultural Differentialism | |
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Cultural Hybridization | |
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Cultural Convergence | |
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Cultural Imperialism | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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High-Tech Global Flows and Structures: Technology, Media, and the Internet | |
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Technology | |
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Media | |
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The Internet | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Flows of People: Vagabonds and Tourists | |
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Migrants | |
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Migration | |
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Tourists and Tourism | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Environmental Flows | |
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Differences among Nation-States | |
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Collapse | |
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The Leading Environmental Problems | |
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Global Responses | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Negative Global Flows and Processes: Dangerous Imports, Diseases, Crime, Terrorism, War | |
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Dangerous Imports | |
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Borderless Diseases | |
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Crime | |
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Corruption | |
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Terrorism | |
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War | |
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The Impact of Negative Global Flows on Individuals | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Inequalities I: Patterns of Inequality | |
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Inequality | |
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Rural-Urban | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Global Inequalities II: Global Majority�Minority Relations | |
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Majority�Minority Relations in a Global Context | |
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Social Definitions | |
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Race and Ethnicity | |
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Ethnicity | |
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Race | |
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Gender | |
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Children | |
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Sexual Minorities: Gays and Lesbians | |
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Responding to and Resisting Minority Status: The Case of Women | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Dealing with, Resisting, and the Futures of, Globalization | |
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Dealing with Globalization | |
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Resisting Globalization | |
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The Futures of Globalization | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Appendix: Disciplinary Approaches to Globalization | |
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Anthropology | |
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Sociology | |
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Political Science | |
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Economics | |
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Geography | |
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Psychology | |
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Literary Criticism (Postcolonial | |
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Other Fields | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |