*=New to this Edition
Each section ends with a Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Global Studies?
PART I: POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
1. Five Meanings of Global Civil Society, Mary Kaldor
* 2. Framing Global Governance, Five Gaps, Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss
* 3. Political Ideologies in the Age of Globalization, Manfred B. Steger
4. Globalization and the Emergence of the World Social Forums, Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Jeffery S. Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter (Jay) Smith, and Rolando Vasquez
* 5. Global Media, Mobilization, and Revolution: The Arab Spring, Hans Schattle
PART II: ECONOMIES AND TECHNOLOGIES
* 6. How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts, Pietra Rivoli
7. The Specter That Haunts the Global Economy?: The Challenge of Global Feminism, Valentine Moghadam
* 8. Designing Capitalism 3.0, Dani Rodrik
* 9. The Global Network Society, Manuel Castells
* 10. The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and Infrastructural Imperialism, Siva Vaidhyanathan
PART III: CULTURES AND HISTORIES
11. Globalization: Long-Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?, William H. McNeill
* 12. Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses, Nayan Chanda
* 13. Culture: The Glocal Game, Cosmopolitanism, and Americanization, Richard Giulanotti and Roland Robertson
* 14. The American Global Cultural Brand, Lane Crothers
* 15. The Religion Market, Olivier Roy
PART IV: SPACES AND ENVIRONMENTS
16. The Urban Climacteric, Mike Davis
* 17. The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch: Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth, Jeb Brugmann
* 18. Mobile Global Citizens, Luis Cabrera
* 19. An Overheated Planet, Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley
* 20. The One-Degree War, Paul Gilding
References
Notes
Credits
Index