The Encyclopedia of Globalization provides a thorough understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of globalization as well as the various historical and analytical interpretations. Consisting of over 400 entries, coverage includes key cultural, ecological, economic, geographical, historical, political, psychological and social aspects of globalization.
Entries in the Encyclopedia vary in length from 500 to 3500 words, depending on the scope of the topic and its relative prominence in studies and politics of globalization. All entries provide bibliographical references for further reading and research.
From the advances in nanotechnology to the controversies surrounding humanitarian intervention, the Encyclopedia of Globalization is a key inter-disciplinary resource to all aspects of globalization. Compiled by a cross-disciplinary editorial team of leading academics on the subject this essential reference work will appeal to students, scholars, researchers, and the general reader interested in the many facets of globalization.
Accounting
Acid Rain
African Religions
African Union
African Caribbean and Pacific Countries
Agenda 21
Agribusiness
Aid
Aids
Air Travel
Alterity
Alternative Trade Schemes
Americanization
Anarchism
Animal Rights Movement
Antarctica Treaty
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Globalization Movements
Arms Trade
Asia Crisis
Asia Europe Meetings
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
Association of South East Asian Nations
Asylum Seekers
Auto Industry
Bank for International Settlements
Banking
Biological Diversity
Biological Weapons
Biotechnology
Borders
Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy
Brain Drain
Bretton Woods System
Buddhism
Cable Television
Capital Adequacy
Capital Controls
Capital Flight
Capitalism
Cartels
Center-Periphery
Chemical Weapons
Child Labor
Children
Christian Orthodoxy
Christianity
Civil Society
Civilization, Standard of
Civilizations
Class
Climate Change
Club of Rome
Cold War
Collective Security
Commodification
Commodity Agreements
Commodity Chains
Common Markets
Commonwealth
Communism
Communitarianism
Community
Comparative Analysis
Comparative Literature
Competition Policy
Confucianism
Connectivity
Consciousness
Consumer Movements
Consumption
Corporate Alliances
Corporate Social Responsibility
Cosmopolitan Democracy
Cosmopolitanism
Credit Cards
Credit-Rating Agencies
Crime
Crimes Against Humanity
Criminal Law
Cuisine
Cultural Defense
Cultural Globalization
Cultural Imperialism
Cultural Property
Cultural Protection
Cultural Relativism
Currency Transactions Tax
Dance
De-Globalization
Debt Crises
Decolonization
Deforestation
Democracy
Deregulation
Derivatives
Desertification
Deterritorialization
Diasporas
Diasporic Writing
Diffusion
Digital Divide
Digitality
Disease
Dollar Standard
Double Movement
Drug Trafficking
E-Commerce
E-Governance
Earth Summit
Ecocriticism
Ecofeminism
Ecojustice
Ecological Modernization
Economic Globalization
Ecumenical Movement
Education
Empires
Employment
End-of-History Thesis
Enlightenment
Environmental Law
Environmental Movements
Esperanto
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Euro
Eurocentrism
Eurocurrency
European Union
Export Processing Zones
Fashion
Feminism
Feminization of Poverty
Financial Stability forum
Fisheries
Food and Agriculture Organization
Food Security
Fordism/Post-fordism
Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Exchange Markets
Foundations
Free Trade
Free Trade Area of The Americas
Free Trade Zones
Gaia Hypothesis
Gender
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Agreement on Trade in Services
Genetically Modified Food
Geneva Conventions
Genocide
Global Advertising
Global Apartheid
Global Assembly Line
Global Branding
Global Care Chains
Global Cities
Global Citizenship
Global Commons
Global Communications
Global Competition
Global Complexity
Global Courts
Global Division of Labor
Global Ecumene
Global Elites
Global Ethics
Global Governance
Global History
Global News Channels
Global Public Goods
Global Public Policy
Global Sourcing
Global Taxes
Global Television Channels
Global Village
Globalism
Globality
Globalization
Glocalization
Gold Standard
Group of Eight
Group of Seventy-Seven
Group of Thirty
Health
Hedge Fund
Hegemony
Heritage
Hinduism
Historiography
Homogenization
Human Rights
Human Rights Movements
Human Trafficking
Humanitarian Action
Humanitarian Intervention
Humanity
Hybridity
Imperialism
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Peoples
Individualism
Industrial Revolution
Inequality
Information Age
Information Technology
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Intelsat
International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
International Criminal Court
International Exhibitions
International Labour Organization
International Law
International Monetary Fund
International Organization of Securities Commissions
International Relations
International Society
International Telecommunication Union
Internationalism
Internet
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Islam
Journalism
Judaism
Justice
Labor Movements
Labor Standards
Land Mines
Language
Late Capitalism
Law Firms
Law of Outer Space
Law of the Sea
League of Arab States
League of Nations
Liberalism
Liberalization
Liberation Theology
Localism
Management
Maps
Marine Pollution
Market
Marxism
McDonaldization
Media Diplomacy
Mercenaries
Mercosur
Mergers and Acquisitions
Micro-Credit Schemes
Migrant Labor
Migration
Military Globalization
Millennium Development Goals
Mining Industry
Missiles
Missionaries
Mobile Telephones
Modernity
Money
Money Laundering
Mono-Culture
MTV
Multiculturality
Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Multilateral Development Banks
Multilateralism
Museums
Music Industry
Nanotechnology
Nation-State
National Identity
Natural Resource Depletion
Neo-Gramscianism
Neoliberalism
Networks
New International Economic Order
New Medievalism
New World Information and Communications Order
New World Order
News Agencies
Nomads
Nongovernmental Organizations
North American Free Trade Agreement
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
North-South Relations
Nuclear Weapons
Occidentalism
offshore Arrangements
Oil Industry
Olympic Games
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Organization of American States
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Orientalism
Ozone Depletion
Pan-Africanism
Paris Club
Passport
Peace
Peace Building
Peace Keeping
Peace Movements
Peasant Movements
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Pesticides
Pharmaceutical Industry
Pilgrimage
Policing
Pollution Havens
Population
Postal Services
Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Poverty
Privatization
Public Sphere
Race
Radio
Rationalization
Reflexive Modernization
Refugees
Regionalism
Religion
Religious Movements New
Religious Revivalism
Resources Law
Retail Industry
Revolution
Risk Society
Roman Catholic Church
Sanctions
Satellites
Science
Self-Identity
Sex Tourism
Sexual Minorities
Slave Trade
Socialism
South Asian Agreement on Regional Cooperation
Southern African Development Community
Sovereignty
Space
Special Drawing Rights
Spirituality
Sports
Standardization
Statistics
Stock Markets
Structural Adjustment Programs
Subaltern Movements
Subsidiarity
Substate Governance
Sustainability
Taxation
Technology
Telecommunications
Telegraph
Telephone
Television
Territoriality
Terrorism
Think Tanks
Time
Tobacco
Torture
Tourism
Toxics
Trade
Trade and Environment
Trade Protectionism
Trade Routes
Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
Trade-Related Investment Measures
Trading Companies
Tradition
Transfer Pricing
Transgovernmental Relations
Translation
Transnational Corporations
Transnationality
Transparency
Transportation
Underground Economy
Unequal Exchange
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Environment Program
United Nations Organization
Universal Jurisdiction
Universalism
Urbanization
Utopianism
Video Technology
Virtual Reality
Voyages of Discovery
Washington Consensus
Water
Weblog
Welfare State
Westernization
Women
Women's Movements
World Bank
World Cinema
World Council of Churches
World Economic forum
World Environment Organization
World Health Organization
World Heritage Convention
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Language System
World Literature
World Music
World Order
World Polity Theory
World Social forum
World Society Theory
World Tourism Organization
World Trade Organization
World Wars
World Wide Web
World-System Theory
Youth Culture
Biography
Roland Robertson, Jan Aart Scholte
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