Part I. Understanding globalization Introduction 1. Globalization - George Modelski 2. The globalizing of modernity - Anthony Giddens 3. Rethinking Globalization - David Held and Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton 4. Globalization: what's new? what's not?(and so what?) - Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye Jr. 5. What is 'global' about globalization? - Jan Aart Scholte 6. The problem of globalisation theory - Justin Rosenberg 7. Globalization - a necessary myth? - Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson 8. Clash of globalizations - Stanley Hoffmann 9. Globalization and american power - Joseph S. Nye Jr. 10. Globalization as empire - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Part II. Political power and civil society: a reconfiguration? Introduction 11. The declining authority of states - Susan Strange 12. Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state? - Michael Mann 13. Sovereignty in international society - Robert O. Keohane 14. The changing structure of international law: sovereignty transformed? - David Held 15. The security state - Ian Clark 16. Governing the global economy through government networks - Anne-Marie Slaughter 17. Power Shift - Jessica T. Mathews 18. Globalization and modes of reionalist governance - Anthony payne 19. Governance in a new global order - James N. Rosenau Part III. The fate of national culture in an age of global communication Introduction 20. Encountering globalization - Kevin Robins 21. The globalization of communication - John B. Thompson 22. The new global media - Rober W. McChesney 23. Globalization and cultural identity - John Tomlinson 24. Towards a global culture? - Anthony D. Smith 25. Global governance and cosmopolitan citizens - Pippa Norris Part IV. A global economy? Introduction 26. A new geo-economy - Peter Dicken 27. Global informational capitalism - Manuel Castells 28. The limits to economic globalization - Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson 29. The nation-state in the global economy - Robert Gilpin 30. Global market versus the new regionalism - Björn Hettne 31. Globalization and the political economy of capitalist democracies - Fritz Scharpf 32. Has globalization gone too far? - Dani Rodrik 33. Global markets and national politics - Geoffrey Garrett 34. The effect of globalization on taxation, institutions, and control of the macroeconomy - Duane Swank Part V. Divided world, divided nations? Introduction 35. Patterns of global inequality - UNDP report 1999 36. The rise of the fourth world - Manuel Castells 37. Are global poverty and inequality getting worse? - Robert Wade/Martin Wolf 38. Spreading the wealth - David Dollar and Aart Kraay 39. Globalization and gendered inequality - Jill Steans 40. Order, globalization and inequality in world politics - Ngaire Woods 41. The promise of global institutions - Joseph Stiglitz Part VI. World, orders, normative choices Introduction 42. Global governance: prospects and problems - Fred Halliday 43. Models of transnational democracy - Anthony McGrew 44. Cosmopolitanism: taming globalization - David Held 45. Can international organizations be democratic? a skeptic's view - Robert A. Dahl 46. The postnational constellation - Jürgen Habermas 47. Priorities of global justice - Thomas W. Pogge 48. Global civil society - Mary Kaldor 49. A world gone wrong? - Chris Brown 50. Beyond the states system? - Hedley Bull