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Globalization has so thoroughly transformed the world that we may now be entering a new phase: post‐globalization. This phase is characterized less by a flattening of old differences than the appearance of new ones.

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.

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. Whilst our understanding of the politics, economics, and social resonance of the phenomenon has become increasingly sophisticated at the macro-level, this book argues that globalization too oftencontinues to be depicted as a set of extra-terrestrial forces with no real physical manifestation, except as effects. T

Globalization is a process of global economic, political and cultural integration and unification.

"Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs. Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dare to go beyond the standard thinking of the day and query the very heart of mobile capital and its impact on daily life. Their alternative vision breathes new life into our sense of evolution and inevitability." Toby Miller, author of Globalization and Sport and -Global Hollywood "Cazdyn and Szeman begin the with the idea that the current economic crisis has historicized globalization, turning it from a process that looked as inevitable as, say, global warming still does, into an episode in the history of capitalism: hence the possibility not just of more globalization but of an 'after globalization.' And hence also, they argue, the renewed possibility of an 'after capitalism.' In powerful critiques of what they describe as the common sense of capital today they sketch out the terms in which changes more radical than substituting generous and honest leaders for the greedy and dishonest ones we've currently got might begin to be imagined." -Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago

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