by Routledge

    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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