Rethinking Globalization [Hardcover]

Today the debates on globalization between its evangelists and detractors?are still raging. In this concise, balanced and accessible new text, Nick Bisley assesses the nature and extent of globalization, the key debates surrounding it and its impact on and significance for world politics.

Introduction.- Parameters of the Globalization Debate.- Globalization Past and Present.- Globalization and the State.- States, Markets and a Global Economy.- International Institutions, Governance and Globalization.- Globalization and the Changing Face of War.- Identity, Nationalism and Globalization.- Still an Anarchical Society?.- Conclusion: Globalization, World Politics and the 21st Century.

NICK BISLEY is Senior Lecturer and Director, Graduate Programme in Diplomacy and Trade, Monash University, Australia.

• A concise and accessible new introduction to a major field of study
  
• Stands back from overpolemical debate on 'globalization' in an attempt to rethink the key issues