Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conducting Global Social Research -- I. What Is Globalization? -- 3. Global Social Change in the Long Run -- 4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization -- 5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective -- II. Global Inequality -- 6. Global Inequality: An Introduction -- 7. Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications -- III. Globalization and the Environment -- 8. Ecosystems and World-Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process -- 9. Global Social Change, Natural Resource Consumption, and Environmental Degradation -- IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance -- 10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism -- 11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory -- V. Global Social Movements -- 12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization -- 13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement -- 14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society -- VI. Democracy and Democratization -- 15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy -- 16. Globalization and the Future of Democracy -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.