Globalization : prospects and problems /: prospects and problems. (2013)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Globalization : prospects and problems /: prospects and problems. (2013)
- Main Title:
- Globalization : prospects and problems
- Further Information:
- Note: JoAnn Chirico, Pennsylvania State University, Beaver.
- Other Names:
- Chirico, JoAnn
- Contents:
- Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global; Chapter Two: Studying Globalization; Chapter Three: Setting the Stage: Foundations of Globalization; Waves of Nationhood; Early Waves of Economic Globalization; Neo-Colonialism and Cold War Strategic Advantage; The Contemporary Period of Nation Building; Shaping the Modern State; Early Globalization of Liberalism; Establishing International Law and Organization; Chapter Four: Making the Global Economy; Post WWII Waves of Economic Globalization; Shaping a New Wave; Globalization as Transitioning Industrial Sectors; Globalization as Outsourcing and Offshoring; Globalization as Trade in Labor; Growing Economic Inequalities: Within and Among Societies; The Global Economic Crisis; The View from the World Social Forum: Civil Society Reports; The View from the Group of 20; The Debt Crisis; The Circumstances of Globalization; Shaping Globalization: The Possibility of a New Order?; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Five: Forging a Global Civil Society; Defining Civil Society; Emergence of Global Civil Society; The Challenge of Democracy in Global Civil Society; Global Civil Society: Interacting Layers of Governance; Civil Society Case Studies; Case Study: Treaty to Ban Landmines; Case Study: The Environmental Regime; The Human Rights Regime; The Global Field; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Six: Who Gets What, When and How: Global Governance; Propositions for Global Governance; Summary; Questions,Chapter One: The World Has Gone Global; Chapter Two: Studying Globalization; Chapter Three: Setting the Stage: Foundations of Globalization; Waves of Nationhood; Early Waves of Economic Globalization; Neo-Colonialism and Cold War Strategic Advantage; The Contemporary Period of Nation Building; Shaping the Modern State; Early Globalization of Liberalism; Establishing International Law and Organization; Chapter Four: Making the Global Economy; Post WWII Waves of Economic Globalization; Shaping a New Wave; Globalization as Transitioning Industrial Sectors; Globalization as Outsourcing and Offshoring; Globalization as Trade in Labor; Growing Economic Inequalities: Within and Among Societies; The Global Economic Crisis; The View from the World Social Forum: Civil Society Reports; The View from the Group of 20; The Debt Crisis; The Circumstances of Globalization; Shaping Globalization: The Possibility of a New Order?; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Five: Forging a Global Civil Society; Defining Civil Society; Emergence of Global Civil Society; The Challenge of Democracy in Global Civil Society; Global Civil Society: Interacting Layers of Governance; Civil Society Case Studies; Case Study: Treaty to Ban Landmines; Case Study: The Environmental Regime; The Human Rights Regime; The Global Field; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Six: Who Gets What, When and How: Global Governance; Propositions for Global Governance; Summary; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Seven: Globalizing Political Culture and State Governance; Globalization of Normative Criteria for Governance; Wave Effects in Globalization; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Eight: Trends and Transitions in Democracy; 2011: A New Democratic Wave?; The Development of Democracy around the World; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Nine: Globalizing Culture: Change and Continuity; Conversion and Divergence in Globalization; Global Culture: Compromise and Clash; Cultural Flows Emerging from Global Life; Summaru; Questions, Investigations; Chapter Ten: Globalization and Everyday Life; Education; Global Patterns of Health and Health Care; Sports; Questions and Investigations; Chapter Eleven: Religion: Conflict and Compromise; Chapter Twelve: Transborder Threats to Well-Being: Inequality and Migration; Transborder Threats to Wellbeing: Inequality and Migration; Risk and Uncertainty; Inequality: The Global Pyramid; Three Case Studies to Alleviate Poverty; Migration; Questions and Investigations; Chapter Thirteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Violent Conflict and Crime; The Challege of Violent Conflict; Peace Making and Peace Building; Transnational Organized Crime (TOC); Responding to Risks; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Fourteen: Transborder Threats to Human Well-Being: Food and the Environment; A World of Contrast: Starving on a Planet of Plenty; Threats to the Natural Environment; Questions, Investigations, and Resources; Chapter Fifteen: Global Trajectories: The City; Contemporary Cities; Cities and the Qualities of Life; Innovative Approaches to City Life; Questions and Investigations; … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (552 pages)
- Subjects:
- 303.48/2
Globalization -- Textbooks - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781483315447
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