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This completely revised and fully updated second edition brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the globalization debate and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction - highways and labyrinths
• First candidate - Robert Langham, 'El Prencipe Negro'
• Supposes
• Second candidate - Dom Diego
• More supposes
• Third candidate - friend of Richard Barnfield
• Further supposes
• Fourth candidate - Dick of Lichfield
• Last supposes
• R.L.'s biography
• Envoi
• Bibliography
• Index
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Sources and Acknowledgements
• AcronymsThe Great Globalization Debate: An Introduction
• Part I Understanding Globalization
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Globalization,
• Chapter 2 The Globalizing of Modernity,
• Chapter 3 Rethinking Globalization,
• Chapter 4 Globalization: What''s New? What''s Not? (And So What?),
• Chapter 5 What is Global about Globalization?
• Chapter 6 The Problem of Globalization Theory,
• Chapter 7 Globalization - A Necessary Myth,
• Chapter 8 Clash of Globalizations, Stanley Hoffman, Battenwieser University Professor at Harvard University
• Chapter 9 Globalization and American Power,
• Chapter 10 Globalization as Empire,
• Part II Political Power and Civil Society: A Reconfiguration?Introduction
• Chapter 11 The Declining Authority of States, Susan Strange, formerly a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick
• Chapter 12 Has Globalization Ended the Rise and Rise of the Nation-State?
• Chapter 13 Sovereignty in International Society,
• Chapter 14 The Changing Structure of International Law: Sovereignty Transformed? David Held,
• Chapter 15 The Security State,
• Chapter 16 Governing the Global Economy Through Government Networks,
• Chapter 17 Power Shift,
• Chapter 18 Globalization and Modes of Regionalist Governance,
• Chapter 19 Governance in a New Global Order,
• Part III The Fate of National Culture in an Age of Global CommunicationIntroduction
• Chapter 20 Encountering Globalization,
• Chapter 21 The Globalization of Communication,
• Chapter 22 The New Global Media,
• Chapter 23 Globalization and Cultural Identity,
• Chapter 24 Towards a Global Culture?
• Chapter 25 Global Governance and Cosmopolitan Citizens,

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Anthony McGrew is Professor of International Relations at Southampton University