David Held, David Goldblatt, Jonathan Perraton, Anthony Mcgrew

Global Transformations

Politics, Economics, and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military globalization, trade, finance, corporate productivity, migration, culture, and the environment. Each of these topics is covered in a chapter which contrasts the contemporary nature of globalization with that of earlier epochs. In mapping the shape and political consequences of globalization, the authors concentrate on six states in advanced capitalist societies (SIACS): the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and Japan. For comparative purposes, other states -- particularly those with developing economics -- are referred to and discussed where relevant. The book concludes by systematically describing and assessing contemporary globalization, and appraising the implications of globalization for the sovereignty and autonomy of SIACS. It also confronts directly the political fatalism that surrounds much discussion of globalization with a normative agenda that elaborates the possibilities for democratizing and civilizing the unfolding global transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 515
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780804736251
• ISBN-10: 0804736251
• Artikelnr.: 54371457

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. .
The Globalization Debate.
Sources of Contention in the Globalization Debate.
Rethinking Globalization: An Analytical Framework.
Determining the Shape of Contemporary Globalization.
The Book Ahead.
1. The Territorial State and Global Politics. .
1.1 From Empires to Modern Nation-states.
1.2 The Emergence of Global Politics.
1.3 Multilayered Governance and the Diffusion of Political Authority.
1.4 Historical Forms of Political Globalization: The Transformation of
Political Community.
1.5 Differential National Enmeshment.
1.6 Conclusion: Political Globalization and Structural Impacts.
2. The Expanding Reach of Organized Violence. .
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 What is Military Globalization?.
2.3 The Globalization of the War System: Geopolitics and the Evolution of a
World Military Order.
2.4 A Global Arms Dynamic?.
2.5 Emerging Forms of Geogovernance: Organized Violence.
2.6 Historical Forms of Military Globalization: A Comparison.
2.7 Contemporary Patterns of National Enmeshment in the World Military
Order.
2.8 Contemporary Military Globalization and its Political Consequences.
3. Global Trade, Global Markets.
3.1 Trade and Globalization.
3.2 Trade: From Antiquity to the Rise of the Nation-State.
3.3 From the Industrial Revolution to the Second World War: The Rise and
Fall of World Trade.
3.4 The Rise of a Global Trading Order.
3.5 Historical Forms of Trade Globalization: The Transformation of Global
Trade.
3.6 National Enmeshment in the Global Trading System.
3.7 The Impact of Global Trade Relations.
3.8 Conclusion: State Autonomy and Sovereignty.
4. Shifting Patterns of Global Finance. .
4.1 Indicators of Financial Globalization and Financial Enmeshment.
4.2 Early Patterns of Global Financial Activity.
4.3 The Classical Gold Standard Period: 1870-1914.
4.4 The Interwar Years: Global Monetary Disorder.
4.5 The Bretton Woods Era: The Reinvention of Global Finance.
4.6 The Shape of Contemporary Financial Globalization.
4.7 Comparing Historical Forms of Financial Globalization.
4.8 Global Finance and National Enmeshment.
4.9 Economic Autonomy and Sovereignty in an Era of Global Finance.
4.10 Conclusion.
5. Corporate Power and Global Production Networks.
5.1 MNCs and Global Production.
5.2 International Business Before the Industrial Revolution.
5.3 International Production in the Industrial Age: Multinational Business
Expansion 1850-1939.
5.4 The Rise of the Multinational Corporation and the Transnationalization
of Production.
5.5 MNCs and Global Production Networks.
5.6 Historical Forms of Business Globalization.
5.7 Contemporary Patterns of National Enmeshment in Global Production
Networks.
5.8 The Globalization of Business: Domestic Impacts.
5.9 Conclusion.
6. People on the Move. .
6.1 Globalization and Migration.
6.2 Historical Forms of Global Migration.
6.3 Contemporary Patterns of Migration.
6.4 Historical Forms of Global Migration: A Comparison.
6.5 Migration and National Enmeshment.
6.6 Globalization, Migration and the Nation-state.
6.7 Conclusion.
7. Globalization, Culture and the Fate of Nations.
7.1 Analysing Cultural Globalization.
7.2 Cultural Globalization in Historical Perspective.
7.3 The Shape of Contemporary Cultural Globalization.
7.4 Historical Forms of Cultural Globalization: In Sum.
7.5 Contemporary Cultural Globalization and its Political Impact.
7.6 Conclusion.
8. Catastrophe in the Making: Globalization and the Environment. .
8.1 Globalization and the Environment.
8.2 Environmental Globalization in Historical Perspective.
8.3 Changing Historical Forms of Environmental Globalization.
8.4 Stratification of Environmental Degradation and National Enmeshment.
8.5 The Contemporary Pattern of Global Environmental Change and its
Political Impacts.
8.6 Conclusion.
Conclusion: the Shape of Contemporary Globalization. .
Methodological Appendix.
References.
Index.