Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: A Friendly Introduction to Global Studies -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Thinking Globally -- Manfred Steger, "Globalization: A Contested Concept" -- Thomas Friedman, "The World Is Ten Years Old" -- Paul James, "Approaches to Globalization" -- Steven Weber, "How Globalization Went Bad" -- Further Reading -- 2. Globalization over Time -- William McNeill, "Globalization: Long Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?" -- Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Imperial Trajectories" -- Immanuel Wallerstein, "On the Study of Social Change" -- Dominic Sachsenmaier, "Movements and Patterns: Environments of Global History" -- Further Reading -- Part II: The March of Globalization, By Region -- 3. Africa: The Rise of Ethnic Politics in a Global World -- Nayan Chanda, "The Hidden Story of a Journey" -- Dilip Hiro, "Slavery" -- Jeffrey Haynes, "African Diaspora Religions" -- Jacob K. Olupona, "Thinking Globally about African Religion" -- Okwudiba Nnoli, "The Cycle of 'State-Ethnicity-State' in African Politics" -- Further Reading -- 4. The Middle East: Religious Politics and Antiglobalization -- Mohammed Bamyeh, "The Ideology of the Horizons" -- Said Amir Arjomand, "Thinking Globally about Islam" -- Jonathan Fox, "Are Middle East Conflicts More Religious?" -- Barah Mikaïl, "Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions" -- Further Reading -- 5. South and Central Asia: Global Labor and Asian Culture -- Richard Foltz, "Religions of the Silk Road" -- Morris Rossabi, "The Early Mongols" -- Vasudha Narayanan, "Hinduism" -- Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, "Revolt, the Modern State, and Colonized Subjects, 1848-1885" -- Carol Upadhya and A.R. Vasavi, "Outposts of the Global Information Economy" -- Further Reading -- 6. East Asia: Global Economic Empires -- Kenneth Pomeranz, "The Great Divergence".

Andre Gunder Frank, "The 21st Century Will Be Asian" -- Steven Radelat, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jong-Wha Lee, "Economic Growth in Asia" -- Ho-Fung Hung, "Is the Rise of China Sustainable?" -- Further Reading -- 7. Southeast Asia and the Pacific: The Edges of Globalization -- Georges Coedès, "The Indianized States of Southeast Asia" -- Benedict Anderson, "Imagined Communities" -- Sucheng Chan, "Vietnam, 1945-2000: The Global Dimensions of Decolonization, War, Revolution, and Refugee Outflows" -- Celeste Lipow MacLeod, "Asian Connections" -- Joel Robbins, "Pacific Islands Religious Communities" -- Further Reading -- 8. Europe and Russia: Nationalism and Transnationalism -- Peter Stearns, "The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?" -- Eric Hobsbawm, "The Nation" -- Seyla Benhabib, "Citizens, Residents, and Aliens in a Changing World" -- Odd Arne Westad, "Soviet Ideology and Foreign Interventions in the Global Cold War" -- Jürgen Habermas, "Citizenship and National Identity" -- Further Reading -- 9. The Americas: Development Strategies -- Charles C. Mann, "Discovering the New World Columbus Created" -- Tzvetan Todorov, "The Reasons for the Victory" -- Francis Fukuyama, "Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States" -- Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, "Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities" -- Further Reading -- Part III: Transnational Global Issues -- 10. Global Forces in the New World Order -- Benjamin Barber, "Jihad vs. McWorld" -- Samuel Huntington, "A Multipolar, Multicivilizational World" -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, "Empire" -- Saskia Sassen, "Global Cities" -- Further Reading -- 11. The Erosion of the Nation-State -- Kenichi Ohmae, "The Cartographic Illusion" -- Susan Strange, "The Westfailure System" -- Zygmunt Bauman, "After the Nation-State-What?".

William I. Robinson, "The Transnational State" -- Further Reading -- 12. Religious Politics and the New World Order -- Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, and Timothy Samuel Shah, "The Twenty-first Century as God's Century" -- Mark Juergensmeyer, "Religion in the New Global Order" -- Olivier Roy, "Al Qaeda and the New Terrorists" -- Richard Falk, "Religion and Humane Global Governance" -- Further Reading -- 13. Transnational Economy and Global Labor -- Richard Appelbaum, "Outsourcing" -- Nelson Lichtenstein, "Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century Capitalism?" -- Robert B. Reich, "Who Is Us?" -- Jagdish Bhagwati, "Two Critiques of Globalization" -- Joseph Stiglitz, "Toward a Globalization with a More Human Face" -- Further Reading -- 14. Global Finance and Financial Inequality -- Benjamin J. Cohen, "Money in International Affairs" -- Stephen J. Kobrin, "Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets" -- Glenn Firebaugh, "The Rise in Income Disparities over the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" -- Dani Rodrik, "Globalization for Whom?" -- Further Reading -- 15. Development and the Role of Women in the Global Economy -- Alvin Y. So, "Social Change and Development" -- Mayra Buvinić, "Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass" -- Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya A. Kurian, and Debashish Munshi, "From the Edges of Development" -- Further Reading -- 16. The Hidden Global Economy of Sex and Drugs -- David Shirk, "The Drug War in Mexico" -- Eduardo Porter, "Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War" -- Kevin Bales, "The New Slavery" -- Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, "Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the Global Economy" -- Further Reading -- 17. Global Environmental and Health Crises -- Catherine Gautier, "Climate Change" -- Ron Fujita, "Turning the Tide" -- Hakan Seckinelgin, "HIV/AIDS" -- Further Reading.

18. Global Communications and New Media -- Yudhishthir Raj Isar, "Global Culture and Media" -- Michael Curtin, "Media Capital in Chinese Film and Television" -- Natana J. DeLong-Bas, "The New Social Media and the Arab Spring" -- Pippa Norris, "The Worldwide Digital Divide" -- Further Reading -- 19. The Global Movement for Human Rights -- Micheline Ishay, "Globalization and Its Impact" -- Alison Brysk, "Transnational Threats and Opportunities" -- Eve Darian-Smith, "Human Rights as an Ethics of Progress" -- David Held, "Changing Forms of Global Order" -- Further Reading -- 20. The Future of Global Civil Society -- Mary Kaldor, "Social Movements, NGOs, and Networks" -- Jan Nederveen Pieterse, "Shaping Globalization: Why Global Futures?" -- Giles Gunn, "Being Other-Wise: Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents" -- Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Making Conversation" -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.