Luke Martell, University of Sussex

Preface to the second edition

Introduction: concepts of globalization

1. Perspectives on Globalization: divergence or convergence?

2. History of Globalization: pre-modern, modern or postmodern?

3. Technology, Economy and the Globalization of Culture

4. The Globalization of Culture: homogeneous or hybrid?

5. Global Migration: history and inequality

6. The Effects of Migration: is migration a problem or solution?

7. The Global Economy: capitalism and the economic bases of globalization

8. Global Inequality: is globalization a solution to world poverty?

9. Politics, the State and Globalization: the end of the nation-state and social democracy?

10. Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Democracy

11. Anti-Globalization and Global Justice Movements

12. The Future World Order: the decline of American power and the rise of China?

Conclusion

Polity Press, 2017