Product Overview
Thoroughly revised and updated, The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.
- Fully revised and updated with new readings on global governance, world soccer, the recent global financial crisis, global health, American evangelicals, and tropical deforestation
- Includes coverage on economic globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, and the link between environmentalism and the globalization of social problems
- Features coverage that ranges across economic, political, cultural, and experiential dimensions of social change
- Offers a wide variety of perspectives on globalization and captures many of the fault lines in current debates
- Stimulates discussion by including provocative contemporary works and by structuring sections around arguments that serve as connecting themes
