PREFACE:

A Friendly Introduction to Global Studies

A. INTRODUCTION

1. THINKING GLOBALLY

What is globalization and how do we make sense of it?

Manfred Steger, “Globalization: A Contested Concept,” from Globalization: A Very Short Introduction

Thomas Friedman, “The World is Ten Years Old,” from The Lexus and the Olive Tree

Paul James, “Approaches to Globalization,” Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Steven Weber, “How Globalization Went Bad,” from Foreign Policy

2. GLOBALIZATION OVER TIME

Globalization has a history—the current global era is prefaced by periods of economic interaction, social expansion, and intense cultural encounters.

William McNeill, “Globalization: Long-Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?” in New Global Studies

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, “Imperial Trajectories,” in Empires in World History

Immanuel Wallerstein, “On the Study of Social Change,” in The Modern World System

Dominic Sachsenmeier, “Movements and Patterns: Environments of Global History” in Global Perspectives on Global History

B. THE MARCH OF GLOBALIZATION—BY REGIONS

3. AFRICA: THE RISE OF ETHNIC POLITICS IN A GLOBAL WORLD

The impact of the slave trade and colonialization on Africa, influence of African culture on the Americas, and African aspects of the global rise of ethnic politics.

Nayan Chanda, “The African Beginning,” in Bound Together

Dilip Hiro, “Slavery,” in Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Jeffrey Haynes, “Africa Diaspora Religions,” from Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Jacob Olupona, from “Thinking Globally About African Religion,“ in The Oxford Handbook of Global Religion

Okwudiba Nnoli, “The Cycle of ‘State-Ethnicity-State’ in African Politics,” from MOST Ethno-Net Africa

4. THE MIDDLE EAST: RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND ANTI-GLOBALIZATION

The rise of global religious cultures from the Middle East, and current religious politics as part of a global challenge to secularism.

Mohammed Bamyeh, “The Ideology of the Horizons” in The Social Origins of Islam

Said Arjomand, “Thinking Globally About Islam,” in Oxford Handbook of Global Religion

Jonathan Fox, “Are Middle East Conflicts More Religious?” in Middle East Quarterly

Barah Mikail, “Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions,” FRIDE policy brief

5. SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: THE FLOW OF TRADE AND CULTURE

The spread of Asian cultures from India and Central Asia via trade routes; the role of South Asia in global trade and information technology.

Richard Foltz, “The Silk Road and Its Travelers” in Religions of the Silk Road

Morris Rossabi, “The Early Mongols,” in Khublai Khan: His Life and Times

Vasudha Narayanan, “Hinduism” in The Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, “Revolt, the Modern State, and Colonized Subjects 1848-1885” in A Concise History of India

Carol Upadhya and A.R. Vasavi, “Outposts of the Global Information Economy” in In an Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India’s Technology Industry

6. EAST ASIA: GLOBAL ECONOMIC EMPIRES

The role of East Asia in global economic history, and the rise of new economies in China, Japan, and South Korea based on global trade.

Kenneth Pomeranz, “Exotic Goods and the Velocity of Fashion,” in The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

Andre Gunder Frank, “The 21st Century Will Be Asian” from The Nikkei Weekly

Steven Radelet, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jong-Wha Lee, “Economic Growth in Asia” in Emerging Asia

Ho-fung Hung, “Is the Rise of China Sustainable?” China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism

7. SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: THE EDGES OF GLOBALIZATION

The emergence of Southeast Asia from colonial control; the rise of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands on the edges of globalization.

Georges Coedes, “Conclusion,” in The Indianized States of Southeast Asia

Benedict Anderson, “The Last Wave,” in Imagined Communities

Sucheng Chan, “Vietnam, 1945-2001: The Global Dimensions of Decolonization, War, Revolution, and Refugee Outflows.”

Celeste Lipow MacLeod, “Asian Connections,” in Multiethnic Australia: Its History and Future

Joel Robbins, “Pacific Islands Religious Communities, in Oxford Handbook of Global Religion

8. EUROPE AND RUSSIA: NATIONALISM AND TRANSNATIONALISM

The role of Europe in creating the concept of the nation, transnational politics in the Soviet Union, and the rise of the European Union.

Peter Stearns, “The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?” in Globalization in World History

Eric Hobsbawm, “The Nation as Novelty,” from Nations and Nationalism since 1780

Seyla Benhabib, “Citizens, Residents, and Aliens in a Changing World” from The Postnational Self

Odd Arne Wested, “The Empire of Justice: Soviet Ideology and Foreign Interventions” in The Global Cold War

Jurgen Habermas, “Citizenship and National Identity: Some Reflections on the Future of Europe” in Praxis International

9: THE AMERICAS: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

The European conquest of the Americas, the rise of new societies, and varying patterns of economic development within a global context.

Charles C. Mann, “Prologue,” 1493: Discovering the New World Columbus Created

Tzvetan Todorov, “Conquest: The Reasons for the Victory,” in The Conquest of America

Francis Fukuyama, “Introduction” in Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

Denis Lynn Daly Heyck, “Introduction” in Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities

C. TRANSNATIONAL GLOBAL ISSUES

10. GLOBAL FORCES IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Paradigms for thinking about the new world order (or disorder) in the post-Cold War global era.

Benjamin Barber, “Introduction” from Jihad vs. McWorld

Samuel Huntington, “The New Era in World Politics-A Multipolar, Multicivilizational World,” from The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Preface” to Empire

Saskia Sassen, "Cities," Encyclopedia of Global Studies

11. THE EROSION OF THE NATION-STATE

The fading strength of the nation-state and the rise of alternative conceptions of world order.

Kenichi Ohmae, “The Cartographic Illusion” from The End of the Nation-State

Susan Strange, “The Westfailure System” from Review of International Studies

Zygmunt Bauman, “After the Nation-State, What?” in Globalization: The Human Consequences.

William Robinson, “The Transnational State” from A Theory of Global Capitalism

12. RELIGIOUS POLITICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

The religious challenge to the secular state in new conceptions of political order.

Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah, “The Twenty-First Century as God’s Century,” in God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

Mark Juergensmeyer, “Religion in the New Global Order”

Olivier Roy, “Al Qaeda and the New Terrorists” from Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah

Richard Falk, "Gaining Perspectives on the Present,” from Religion and Humane Global Governance

13. TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL LABOR

Economic globalization-- its relation to national economies, the growth of transnational corporations, and the changing role of labor.

Richard P. Appelbaum, “Outsourcing,” in The Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Nelson Lichtenstein, “The Wal-Mart Template for Global Capitalism” in New Labor Forum

Robert B. Reich, "Who is Us?"

Jagdish Bhagwati, from “Two Critiques of Globalization,” in In Defense of Globalization

Joseph Stiglitz, from “The Way Ahead” in Globalization and its Discontents

14. GLOBAL FINANCE AND FINANCIAL INEQUALITY

Changes in the concept of money and international financial markets.

Benjamin J. Cohen, “Money in International Affairs” from The Geography of Money

Stephen J. Kobrin, “Electronic Cash and the End of National Markets” from USIA Electronic Journal

Glenn Firebaugh, “Massive Global Income Inequality,” in The New Geography of Global Income Inequality

Dani Rodrik, “Globalization for Whom?” Harvard Magazine

15. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN

Competing views of development and the role of women in the global economy.

Alvin Y. So, “Conclusion” from Social Change and Development

Mayra Buvinic, “Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass” from Foreign Policy pop

Kum Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kuriyan, Debashish Munshi, “From the Edges of Development” from On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions

16. THE HIDDEN GLOBAL ECONOMY OF SEX AND DRUGS

Illegal traffic in people and drugs, and the global attempts to control them.

David Shirk, “Introduction,” The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Common Threat

Eduardo Porter, “Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War,” New York Times

Kevin Bales, from “The New Slavery,” in Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, “Introduction” Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the Global Economy

17. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CRISES

The principal environmental and health problems that transcend national boundaries and global attempts to alleviate them.

Catherine Gautier, “Climate Change,” Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Ron Fujita, "Turning the Tide," in Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving our Seas

Hakan Seckinelgin, “HIV/AIDS” in Encyclopedia of Global Studies

18. GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NEW MEDIA

The role of new media—video, internet, social networking—on global culture and organization.

Yudhishthir Raj Isar, “Global Culture and Media,” from The Encyclopedia of Global Studies

Michael Curtin, “Media Capital in Chinese Film and Television” in Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV

Natana DeLong-Bas, ”The New Social Media and the Arab Spring,” Oxford Islamic Studies Online

Pippa Norris, “The Worldwide Digital Divide,” Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

19. THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Transnational networks supporting human rights and legal protection for all.

Micheline Ishay, “Globalization and Its Impact,” The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era

Alison Brysk, “Transnational Threats and Opportunities,” in Globalization and Human Rights

Eve Darian-Smith, “Human Rights as an Ethic of Progress,” in Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches

David Held, “Changing Forms of Global Order,” Cosmopolitanism

20. THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY

The emerging sense of global citizenship, and nongovernmental organizations and movements comprising a new “global civil society”—is this the global future?

Mary Kaldor, “Social Movements, NGOs and Networks” from Global Civil Society

Jan Nederveen Pieterse, “Shaping Globalization” in Global Futures

Giles Gunn, “Being Other-Wise” from Ideas to Die for: Cosmopolitanism in a Global Era

Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Making Conversation” from Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

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