TOC:

• Introduction: Concepts of globalization
• Perspectives on globalization: divergence or convergence?
• The history of globalization: pre-modern, modern or postmodern?
• Technology, economy and the globalization of culture
• The globalization of culture: homogeneous or hybrid?
• Global migration: inequality and history
• The effects of migration: is migration a problem or a solution?
• The global economy: capitalism and the economic bases of globalization
• Global inequality: is globalization a solution to world poverty?
• Politics, the state and globalization: the end of the nation-state and social democracy?
• Global politics and cosmopolitan democracy
• Anti-globalization and global justice movements
• The future world order: the decline of American power and the rise of China?