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This book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms-economic, political, cultural, and technological alike. In addition to case studies on Islamism, feminism, and global justice,-the third edition explores the wave of right-wing populism-its origins, features, varieties, and challengers.

Providing a comprehensive overview of the changing ideological landscape in the age of globalization, Manfred Steger explores the clashing political belief systems of our time: market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalism. He considers their prospects in light of the growing populist challengers in the tumultuous decade to come.

This fully updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of two centuries of transnational feminist efforts to produce a just global order. Hawkesworth analyzes continuities and changes in the nature and scope of gendered inequities and power dynamics within national and international regimes and weighs strategies for social transformation.

This book offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. John Agnew challenges the widely accepted story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization, offering a convincing framework that breaks with the either/or thinking of state sovereignty versus globalization.

Written by one of the world's leading feminist scholars, this masterful and provocative new, up-dated edition charts how women's desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men's fears of being feminized are being manipulated to globalize militarism-and thus what it will take to roll back militarization anywhere.

Focusing on the intersection between globalization and migration, this text traces a dynamic process that has incorporated millions of migrants into a vast economic marketplace. Dickinson explores the contradictions that make it easier for goods and capital to circulate while simultaneously making it harder for people to migrate.

Health and disease are intimately connected with the movement of people, goods, and ideas that embody globalization. Examining the various dimensions of the intersections between globalization and health, this book calls attention to the challenges these relationships present and the opportunities for cross-border collaboration and solidarity.

Explores the accomplishments and the formidable challenges facing global union politics. This work considers whether global union politics has become more active and more influential or has failed to rise to the challenge of global capitalism.

In this text, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that a culture of hybridization is being formed around the world. He argues that this can be a positive force, if transformed in ways that allow identity to be preserved.

What is the hottest American export since 9/11? The contributors to this provocative volume contend that it is Western style globalism--the dominant free market ideology that determines everything from most favored nation status to the declaration of war. In this much-needed post September 11th analysis, an interdisciplinary author team shows how central concepts like globalization, liberty, free markets, and free trade are increasingly being subordinated to and lumped together with the war on terrorism led by the U.S. and its allies.

This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance.Stroem traces the state's increasing control over its citizens and critically examines the social meaning and consequences of surveillance and globalization.

Globalization and terrorism are both fraught concepts; people use them loosely without regard for exactitude and often to further political ends.