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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 | |