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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

A review essay on books by (1) Alex Callinicos, An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (Oxford, UK: Polity, 2003); (2) Walden Bello, Deglobalization (London: Zed, 2002); & (3) David Held & Anthony McGrew (Globalization and Anti-Globalization (Oxford, UK: Polity, 2002).

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.

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.