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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introduction: Globalization and the Millennial Ascent of Individual Rights

   • Ino Rossi

   Pages 1-20

3. GLOBALIZATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY: CONCEPTUALIZING AND EXPLORING GLOBALIZATION

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-23

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   2. The Glocal Turn

      • Roland Robertson

      Pages 25-38

   3. Global Systemic Anthropology and the Analysis of Globalization

      • Jonathan Friedman

      Pages 39-60

   4. Media, Sociocultural Change, and Meta-Culture

      • York Kautt

      Pages 61-76

   5. Globalization and the Challenge of the Anthropocene

      • Leslie Sklair

      Pages 77-87

   6. Conceptual Structures for a Theory of World Society

      • Rudolf Stichweh

      Pages 89-103

   7. Principles of Geo-Political Dynamics

      • Jonathan H. Turner

      Pages 105-123

   8. Transdisciplinarity in Globalization Research: The Global Studies Framework

      • Manfred B. Steger

      Pages 125-138

4. GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ON CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-140

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   2. Goals, Values, and Endemic Conflicts in the New Global Culture

      • Martin Albrow

      Pages 143-159

   3. The Affectual Landscape of Globalization: New Migration, Generalized Discontent, and Ressentiment

      • Jörg Dürrschmidt

      Pages 161-175

   4. Globalization, Cosmopolitanization, and a New Research Agenda

      • Joy Zhang

      Pages 177-189

5. ON POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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6. ON POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION

   1. Global Transformations in Polity, Policy, and Politics: World Polity, Europe, and the Nation-State

      • Didem Buhari Gulmez

      Pages 193-208

   2. The Politics of the Adjective Global: May’s Global Britain and the ‘New World’

      • Sabine Selchow

      Pages 209-224

   3. (Postmodern) Populism as a Trope for Contested Glocality

      • Barrie Axford

      Pages 225-240

   4. Globalization and the Rise of the Economic State: PRC and USA in Comparison

      • Guoguang Wu

      Pages 241-259

7. ON ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261

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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.

• Understanding Globlization
• Global Systemic Anthropology
• Cultural Processes and Globalization
• Political Processes and Globalization
• Economic Processes and Globalization
• Social Movements and Global Ecology
• Globalization’s New Frontiers
• Globalization in Asia
• China and the Transformation of World Economy
• Economic Development in India
• Sustainable Globalization and Rising Inequality in Australia
• Impact of Globalization on East Asian Cultures
• Political Islam and Globalization
• Globalization and the Development of Africa
• Promises of Globalization in Latin America
• Globalization and Central America

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.

• St. John’s University, New York City, USA

  Ino Rossi

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).

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