Includes bibliographical references and index.

Topics covered include globalization and productivity, governance, community, knowledge, security, justice, democracy, humane global futures.

Framework of analysis -- Change and continuity -- Policy issues -- Framework of Analysis -- What Is Happening? -- Main points of this chapter -- Where do we start? -- Continuity or change? -- Liberation or shackles? -- What to do? -- What is 'Global' about Globalization? -- Main points of this chapter -- Rise of a buzzword -- Redundant concepts of globalization -- A distinctive concept of globalization -- A survey of global activities -- Farewell to methodological territorialism? -- Globality and territoriality -- Globalization in History -- Main points of this chapter -- The emergence of a global imagination: to the 18th century -- Incipient globalization: 1850s-1950s -- Full-scale globalization: 1960s-Present -- What Causes Globalization? -- Main points of this chapter -- The structuration of globalization -- Rationalism -- Capitalism -- Technological innovation -- Regulation -- Change and Continuity -- Globalization and Production -- Main points of this chapter -- Expanded commodification -- Altered organization -- Globalization and Governance -- Main points of this chapter -- The reconstructed state -- Multilayered public governance -- Privatized governance -- Globalization and Community -- Main points of this chapter -- Nations ... and more nations -- Nonterritorial communities -- Cosmopolitanism -- Hybridization -- Globalization and Knowledge -- Main points of this chapter -- Epistemology: modern rationality and its critics -- Ontology -- Methodology -- Aesthetics -- Policy Issues.