Globalization: A Critical Introduction - Tapa dura

" Superb...the theoretical perspective works! It informs! It clarifies! It stimulates!...This is the kind of book that can serve as an introductory text in all fields. It is the kind of work that can promote movement in the direction the academy, its classrooms, and its research centers should be going: toward the unity of knowledge in a world ever more tied together by nonterritorial processes, structures and norms." -- James N. Rosenau," International Studies Review" " Scholte's comprehensive study of the far-reaching impact of globalization is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject. It is an accessible and provocative book on an increasingly complicated topic." -- "Choice" "Superb...the theoretical perspective works! It informs! It clarifies! It stimulates!...This is the kind of book that can serve as an introductory text in all fields. It is the kind of work that can promote movement in the direction the academy, its classrooms, and its research centers should be going: toward the unity of knowledge in a world ever more tied together by nonterritorial processes, structures and norms." --James N. Rosenau," International Studies Review" "Scholte's comprehensive study of the far-reaching impact of globalization is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject. It is an accessible and provocative book on an increasingly complicated topic." --"Choice"

In the midst of globalization being touted as either the cause or solution to every problem, Scholte (international studies, U. of Warwick) offers academic definition, description, periodization, explanation, and judgement and on the basis of those, prescription. He covers the framework of analysis,