Books for Globalization Courses

Globalization

A Reader

Edited by Charles Lemert, Anthony Elliott, Daniel Chaffee, Eric Hsu

Expected to become a classic in the field and the classroom standard for teachers and their students, this book offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary readings on globalization currently available. Here, for the first time in print, is the full historical...

Published March 28th 2010 by Routledge

Challenges of Globalization

Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance

Edited by Andrew Sobel

Vigorous debates swirl around issues of globalization, as global political economic relations in a nation-state system are complex and incompletely understood phenomena. The experiences of the late 1800's and first half of the twentieth century suggest that globalization requires nurturing to...

Published August 19th 2009 by Routledge

Limits to Globalization

North-South Divergence

By William R. Thompson, Rafael Reuveny

Series: Rethinking Globalizations

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the...

Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge

Globalization

North-South Perspectives

By John Glenn

Rather than claim that there exists a common concept of globalization that all parties can agree to, this book seeks to examine some of the conceptions and the way in which they render different interpretations of particular aspects of globalization. The last two decades have witnessed an explosive...

Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge

Fair Trade

The Challenges of Transforming Globalization

Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson

This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South...

Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge

Globalization: The Key Concepts

Edited by Annabelle Mooney, Betsy Evans

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative for anyone engaging with this ubiquitous topic. Globalization: the Key Concepts offers a...

Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge

Gender, Development and Globalization

Economics as if All People Mattered

By Lourdes Beneria, Gunselli Berik, Maria Floro

With Cold War politics lost as the organizing principle behind international politics, development has become the most import policy goal of every international organization. There is an underside (and a human side) to development, and feminism has made inroads into the highly technical debates and...

Published May 22nd 2003 by Routledge