Product Description

A systematically revised and updated new edition of a highly acclaimed text which was an immediate bestseller on courses around the world. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased coverage of other dimensions of globalization alongside its core focus on the rise of supraterritoriality which the author argues is globalization's most distinctive feature.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87845 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

James N. Rosenau, International Studies Review
'[S]uperb...[T]he theoretical perspective works! It informs! It clarifies! It stimulates!

Martin Shaw, Millennium
...[H]ere is a coherent view of globalization that can be tested against other arguments and information...

Tony McGrew, New Political Economy
[A]n impressive analysis of contemporary globalization...

Customer Reviews

If the world is getting smaller why so much 'globalisation'?
This is the ideal guide to globalisation. The term 'globalisation' is often misued to decorate exagerated academic theses and increase sales - the term is sprayed around like perfume to freshen up the appearance of many books (just try googling it). At last, here is a book which avoids the clouds of obsification caused by other authors who either explain the benefits of the currently dominant neoliberal economic doctrine and call this globalisation, or critique the resemblence of imperial and colonial tendencies by powerful elites and are branded as the anti-globalisation movement (a contridiction if ever there was one).

This book describes the core characteristic of globalisation as superteritoriality, in which the emerging priority is no longer the nation-state, but is the realisation of a global-space. Here there is no single globalisation but multiple developments of which economic integration is only one. Globalisation may be unstoppable, but there are opportunities for us to shape the emergent trends of identity, knowledge, production and governance and so give greater emphasis to tackling inequality, promoting democracy and striving for greater security.

Scholte's book is the best available description of globalisation. We need to know more about the world and this may be a textbook but it is an easy read and makes the world more accessible.