Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Introductory: Why Social Science Imperialism? -- Introduction -- Evolution of the Concept Globalization -- Key Propositions -- Is Globalization "Westernization"? -- Rationale of Study -- Brief Explanation -- Theoretical Considerations -- What is Imperialism today? -- Why Study Imperialism? -- Domination of Finance -- The US and the World Dollar -- Free Trade as Imperialism -- Imperialism, Capitalism, Technology and Science -- Military Power and Imperialism -- Military Resistance -- Empire and Ideology -- Globalization as Westernization -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 - Social Science, Eurocentrism, Americanization, and Imperialism -- Overview -- Introduction -- Historical evolution of social science studies -- Conceptual and Theoretical Issues of Interdisciplinary Studies -- Contradictions of Specialization -- Examples of sociological narrowness and imperialism -- Why postdisciplinary studies and the need to become a social scientist? -- The Politics of Academic Studies: 1900 - 1945 -- The Cold War: The Ascendancy of Specialization -- Specialized Academic Disciplines as Vehicles for Cultural Imperialism -- Class Power and Rise and Fall of Academic Paradigms -- Challenges of Political Realities and Myths of Autonomy of Social Sciences -- Rise of Variants of Inter-Disciplinary Studies: Corporate or Critical? -- Critique of Neo- Liberal "Interdisciplinary Studies" -- Some Entailments of Theorizing -- Theorizing the "Other" -- Eurocentric Social Science=Imperialism? -- Social Sciences, Eurocentrism and Imperialism -- Two different societies -- Absence of objectivity -- Uniform educational diet? -- Conclusion: Objectivity and Political Commitment -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 - Dissecting Globalization as a Scientific Theory.

Overview -- Introduction -- Background to Neoliberal Globalization Theory -- Globalization Theory -- Uneven Scientism and Neoliberal Regulation -- Globalization Theory and Experience -- Capitalism, free markets, instability and division -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 - Globalization Theory as Repackaged Social Science Imperialism -- Overview -- Introduction -- Background: Globalization Was Imposed, Not 'Evolved' -- Globalization as a False Theory -- A Global Market? -- In the real world -- Combined and uneven development -- Global capital -- Globalization and development -- Global inequality -- Debunking the "great" myths of globalization -- Globalization: Myths and Realities -- Footloose capital? -- Is globalization to blame for lost jobs in U.S.? -- Fighting the job killers -- Socialism or Reform of Capitalism? -- The State of the State -- The State in Global Politics -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 - Toward De-linking From Globalization by the Oppressed and Exploited -- Overview -- Introduction -- The Globalization Apostles' Creed -- Globalization for Whom? -- Globalisation = cultural, political & economic imperialism -- Globalization is a Huge Problem -- 'Another World is Possible' -- Economic Growth -- Free Trade -- Liberalization -- Deregulation -- Privatization -- Developing Countries -- The Strategy of the Transition -- Bibliography -- Epilogue - Which Way for Oppressed and Exploited People? -- Overview -- Chapter 6 - The Elusive Scientific (Theoretical) Land of Promise -- Introduction -- The Rise of Globalist Ideology -- Globalization as False Science: Theory and Practice -- The Myth of Globalization -- Neoliberalism and the "Antiglobalization Movement" -- Narratives of Globalization and Democracy -- "Liberalization Works"? Corporate Globalization and Democracy -- Anticorporate Globalization and Democracy.

The Securitization of Protest -- Conclusion: Globalization/Antiglobalization and the Future of Democracy -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 - The Road to Scientific Paradise -- Overview -- Introduction -- Revisiting Theorizing Globalization -- Some Instructive Dialogues on Globalization -- Class Science and Scientific Truth -- Science and Colonialism -- Science as Part of Culture -- Class Science and Scientific Insight -- Newtonian Physics -- Time and Space -- Similarity and Difference -- Evolution -- Dialectical Materialism -- The Law of the Excluded Middle -- The Social and the Biological -- Environmental Struggles -- The Battle around Science -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Back cover.