Global Transformations

Politics, Economics and Culture

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ID23701396
AuthorsDavid Held (0000-0003-0537-1508), Anthony Mcgrew, David Goldblatt (0000-0002-0769-5242), Jonathan Perraton (0000-0003-3743-6847)
Year2009
Pages146-147
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRugman reviews international business (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMacmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-137-28787-8_53
OpenAlexW4298012936
ISBN9781137287878
LanguageEN
Citations received62

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.

Economic system · Economics · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Global Economic and Social Development · Law · World Systems and Global Transformations

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