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Findings from the fifth annual A. T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index reveal a resilience to globalization that runs deeper than transient political crises. Countries are ranked according to economic integration, personal contact, technological creativity, & political engagement, giving an idea of which ones are globalizing & which are not. Attention is given to the US, Russia, the People's Republic of China, Canada, the EU, & Iran, as well as to the globalization's relationship with terrorism, public education spending, & corruption & freedom. J. Zendejas

Analyzes results of the A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index which quantifies a range of factors for 50 developed countries and key emerging markets on a country-by-country basis to determine extent of economic and technological integration, and globalization's impact on income inequality, democratization, and corruption. Based on data from sources including the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2000, the International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics Yearbook, the International Telecommunications Union's Yearbook of Statistics 2000, and the Secure Server Survey.

Findings from the fifth annual A. T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index reveal resilience to globalization that runs deeper than transient political crises. Countries are ranked according to economic integration, personal contact, technological creativity, and political engagement, giving an idea of which ones are globalizing and which are not. Attention is given to the US, Russia, the People's Republic of China, Canada, the EU, and Iran, as well as to globalization's relationship with terrorism, public education spending, and corruption and freedom.

Examines the likely effects of globalization on state capacity and action, focusing on three different views that address issues including the Western European welfare state, competition, political economy, and ideology, and which all conclude that globalization will not necessarily deprive states of their capacity to act but may have positive net gains; 1980s and 1990s, chiefly.

Recession, repression, & militarization have marked globalization from above, & the promises of prosperity, democracy, & peace have gone unfulfilled. With the US policy of unilateralism, war & violence are escalating. In the face of globalization from above, activists around the world have formed a movement for globalization from below, challenging the international elites & transnational corporations. In this movement, grassroots groups self-organize & cooperate across national borders, as in the Argentinian piqueteros. US President Bush's unilateralism & opposition to initiatives of the global justice movement are being resisted, but the rapidly developing globalization from below has many challenges ahead. M. Pflum

Recession, repression, & militarization have marked globalization from above, & the promises of prosperity, democracy, & peace have gone unfulfilled. With the US policy of unilateralism, war & violence are escalating. In the face of globalization from above, activists around the world have formed a movement for globalization from below, challenging the international elites & transnational corporations. In this movement, grassroots groups self-organize & cooperate across national borders, as in the Argentinian piqueteros. US President Bush's unilateralism & opposition to initiatives of the global justice movement are being resisted, but the rapidly developing globalization from below has many challenges ahead. M. Pflum

The displacement of the concepts imperialism, colonialism, & neocolonialism by the concept of globalization in the discourse of progressives & leftists is defended in light of changes in the capitalist world system. The question of the special & territorial aspects of capitalist development has been long debated in Marxist literature. The concept of globalization recognizes that the bourgeoisie's quest for class domination is no longer bounded by natural geographic units. Several aspects of the process of globalization are discussed, including the transformation of infrastructure & political territorial organization. The spread of communications systems, the reduction of transaction costs, the growth & mobilization of world labor, the rise of urbanization, & democratization are discussed as facets of globalization. It is argued that the Left must broaden its concern to include numerous nontraditional issues, while at the same time, it must abandon its organizational strategy of avant-garde political parties. 20 References. H. von Rautenfeld

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one