'Globalization' is one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term describing a variety of accelerating economic, political, and cultural processes that are changing our experience of the world. Fully updated for 2009, this Very Short Introduction provides an accessible exploration of both the causes and effects of the phenomenon.

Proposes an examination of how globalisation and transnational capitalism have reshaped the terrain and parameters of social, economic and political relations both at the national and the global levels, and how the relations of domination and subordination are reproduced in new forms beyond national borders.

Globalization has become one of the most important topics within politics and economics. This title explains some of the related terminology, summarizes the surrounding theories and examines the international organizations involved.

Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, this title investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time.

Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, this title investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time.

Argues that though globalization should be a powerful force for good, it has been badly mishandled by the West (especially its lead institutions, the World Bank and the IMF), and that the anti-globalizing protesters have much to say that we should listen to.

Chronicles the long and bloody history of Western intervention in Arab lands. This book examines the major events that have shaped the region - ranging from the French in Algeria and the British in Egypt in the nineteenth century to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to the war in Iraq.

Focuses on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. This book argues for the idea of the 'common' to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition.

A study of the semantics and usages of the concept of Latin America in the United States, both in everyday language and in social scientific discourses. It states that Latin America has been historically defined in American English in opposition to a self-congratulatory image of the United States of America.

Contains chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. This book also contains sections that look at military, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization.

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. This book addresses culture in the form of global communications, global religions, global-local consumption, and ideologies of globalism.

Addressing the post-September 11th global landscape, this book shows how globalisation is reshaping our lives. It includes such chapters as Globalisation; Risk; Tradition; Family; and, Democracy.

Featuring contributions by some of the experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, political science and law, this title offers an examination of the complexities surrounding modern globalization.

Arguing that the world did not turn 'global' overnight, this book traces the emergence of globalization. It demonstrates how globalization in the mid-twentieth century opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war and ecological catastrophe.

Presents work in the field of global/civilisational studies by constituting an interdisciplinary and theoretically-informed platform on which complex debates on the political, economic, socio-cultural, philosophical and ecological aspects of the global order could be conducted.

The economic policy of privatisation, which is defined as the transfer of property or responsibility from public sector to private sector, is one of the global phenomenon that increases use of markets to allocate resources. This book covers the research on this field.

Globalisation is a choice. It is the result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. This work explores the golden age of globalisation during the early years of the 20th century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-1945, the divisions of the Cold War world and the turn again towards global integration at the end of the century.

Featuring contributions by some of the experts from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, political science and law, this title offers an examination of the complexities surrounding modern globalization.