Using a world systems approach this book examines how globalization is experienced around the world and compares its intensity and impact in industrialized coun

This book summarizes how globalizing capitalism-the economic system now presumed to dominate the global economy-can be understood from a geographical perspectiv

Both the force and the limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifesta

So far there has been only praise for globalization. However, the export wave of China’s manufacturing machine and, more recently, the Global financial crisis

This work challenges the popular view that globalization threatens the role of the nation-state in determining national policy. It examines the fundamental issu