Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture

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Stanford University Press, 1999 - Political Science - 515 pages
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.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Territorial State and Global Politics 22335
32
6
85
Global Trade Global Markets
149
Shifting Patterns of Global Finance
189
Corporate Power and Global Production Networks
236
People on the Move
283
Globalization Culture and the Fate of Nations
327
Globalization
376
the Shape of Contemporary Globalization
414
Methodological Appendix
453
Index
493
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David Held is Professor of Politics and Sociology at the Open University. Anthony G. McGrew is Senior Lecturer in Government at the Open University. David Goldblatt is Lecturer in Social Sciences at the Open University. Jonathan Perraton is Lecturer in Economics at Sheffield University.

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