The Globalization Reader ^{4th Ed.}

Since its initial publication, The Globalization Reader has been widely acclaimed for its comprehensive coverage of the complexities and controversies surrounding globalization. To reflect the rapid pace of global trends and ongoing scholarship, the Fourth Edition is thoroughly revised and updated while continuing to provide the most wide-ranging and successful introduction to the political, economic, cultural, and experiential dimensions of globalization available today.

Readings from scholars, activists, and organizations ensure balanced viewpoints and insightful coverage of the many layers and aspects of globalization. New topics explored in the Fourth Edition include global governance, world soccer, the recent global financial crisis, global health, American evangelicals, and tropical deforestation. Other readings address economic globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, links between environmentalism and the globalization of social problems, and the alternative globalization movement.

Presenting the most accessible and comprehensive reviews of current debates and research, The Globalization Reader Fourth Edition will clarify readers' understanding of the myriad issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world.

• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Sources and Acknowledgments
• General Introduction
• Part I: Debating Globalization
  
  • Introduction
  1. The Hidden Promise: Liberty Renewed
     John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
  2. How to Judge Globalism
     Amartya Sen
  3. Globalisation: Nine Theses on Our Epoch
     William I. Robinson
  4. Jihad vs. McWorld
     Benjamin R. Barber
  5. The Clash of Civilizations?
     Samuel P. Huntington
  • Part I Questions
• Part II: Explaining Globalization
  
• Introduction
  
6. The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy
   Immanuel Wallerstein
7. Sociology of the Global System
   Leslie Sklair
8. Liberalism
   Scott Burchill
9. Realism and Complex Interdependence
   Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye
10. World Society and the Nation-State
    John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez
11. Globalization as a Problem
    Roland Robertson
12. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
    Arjun Appadurai
• Part II Questions
  
• Part III: Experiencing Globalization
  
• Introduction
  
13. How Sushi Went Global
    Theodore C. Bestor
14. McDonald’s in Hong Kong
    James L. Watson
15. The Transnational Villagers
    Peggy Levitt
16. The Great Game and the Informal Empire
    David Goldblatt
17. Is Baseball a Global Sport? America’s “National Pastime” as Global Field and International Sport
    William W. Kelly
18. Strategic Inauthenticity
    Timothy D. Taylor
• Part III Questions
  
• Part IV: Globalization and the World Economy
  
• Introduction
  
19. China Makes, the World Takes
    James Fallows
20. Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry
    Miguel Korzeniewicz
21. The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development
    Gary Gereffi
22. Incensed about Inequality
    Martin Wolf
23. Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality?
    Robert Hunter Wade
24. Social Accountability and Corporate Greenwashing
    William S. Laufer
25. Grounded: Income Inequality and Speculative Investment Led to the Financial Meltdown
    Branko Milanovic
26. The Twin Excesses – Financialization and Globalization – Caused the Crash
    Ashok Bardhan
27. Globalism’s Discontents
    Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Part IV Questions
  
• Part V: Globalization and the Nation-State
  
• Introduction
  
28. The Declining Authority of States
    Susan Strange
29. Global Organized Crime
    James H. Mittelman
30. Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
    Dani Rodrik
31. Welfare Spending in an Era of Globalization: The North–South Divide
    John Glenn
32. World Culture and the Future of Schooling
    David P. Baker and Gerald K. LeTendre
• Part V Questions
  
• Part VI: Global Governance
  
• Introduction
  
33. The International Monetary Fund
    James Vreeland
34. The Future of the Multilateral Trade System – What Role for the World Trade Organization?
    Ann Capling and Richard Higgott
35. A New World Order
    Anne-Marie Slaughter
36. ISO and the Infrastructure for a Global Market
    Craig N. Murphy and JoAnne Yates
37. Global Health Governance: A Conceptual Review
    Richard Dodgson, Kelley Lee, and Nick Drager
38. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grant-Making Programme for Global Health
    David McCoy, Gayatri Kembhavi, Jinesh Patel, and Akish Luintel
• Part VI Questions
  
• Part VII: Globalization, INGOs, and Civil Society
  
• Introduction
  
39. The Emergence and Transformation of the International Women’s Movement
    Nitza Berkovitch
40. The Evolution of Debates over Female Genital Cutting
    Elizabeth Heger Boyle
41. World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization
    John Boli and George M. Thomas
42. Closing the Corruption Casino: The Imperatives of a Multilateral Approach
    Peter Eigen
43. The Backlash against NGOs
    Michael Bond
44. How Global Is Global Civil Society?
    Neera Chandhoke
45. Global Governance and the Role of NGOs in International Peace and Security
    Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Virginia Haufler
• Part VII Questions
  
• Part VIII: Globalization and Media
  
• Introduction
  
46. Cultural Imperialism
    John Tomlinson
47. Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra-Flow
    Daya Kishan Thussu
48. Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia
    Doobo Shim
49. Watching Big Brother at Work: A Production Study of Big Brother Australia
    Jane Roscoe
50. Bollywood versus Hollywood: Battle of the Dream Factories
    Heather Tyrrell
51. Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care
    Tyler Cowen
• Part VIII Questions
  
• Part IX: Globalization and Religion
  
• Introduction
  
52. Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims
    Charles Kurzman
53. Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
    Olivier Roy
54. The Christian Revolution
    Philip Jenkins
55. American Evangelicals: The Overlooked Globalizers and Their Unintended Gospel of Modernity
    Joshua J. Yates
56. Globalizing Catholicism and the Return to a “Universal” Church
    José Casanova
57. Religious Rejections of Globalization
    Frank J. Lechner
• Part IX Questions
  
• Part X: Global Environmentalism
  
• Introduction
  
58. From One Earth to One World
    World Commission on Environment and Development
59. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
    UN Conference on Environment and Development
60. Greenpeace and Political Globalism
    Paul Wapner
61. Environmental Advocacy Networks
    Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink
62. Toward Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development: Transnational Civil Society Organizing around Big Dams
    Sanjeev Khagram
63. Ozone Depletion
    Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown
64. Forest Stewardship Council
    Kristina Tamm Hallström and Magnus Boström
• Part X Questions
  
• Part XI: Alternative Globalization and the Global Justice Movement
  
• Introduction
  
65. Counterhegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Political Economy
    Peter Evans
66. The Global South: The WTO and Deglobalization
    Walden Bello
67. Counter-Capitalism: Globalisation’s Children Strike Back
    James Harding
68. Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization
    Vandana Shiva
69. Tomorrow Begins Today
    Subcomandante Marcos
70. Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization
    World Social Forum
71. A Better World Is Possible!
    International Forum on Globalization
• Part XI Questions
  

A very comprehensive and thought-provoking book about the current issues in the Global world (and Marketplace). If you want to have a good overview and some different perspectives on the global marketplace, this is definetely the book for you.

A good selection of articles, that for the most part were very readable and nearly always challenging the state of mind. Recommended reading.