What is Globalization? Paperback - 2000
by Beck, Ulrich
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- Title What is Globalization?
- Author Beck, Ulrich
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2000-02-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003189482
- ISBN 9780745621265 / 0745621260
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.02 x 0.55 in (22.96 x 15.29 x 1.40 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Globalization, International economic relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99027522
- Dewey Decimal Code 337
First line
From the rear cover
Beck focuses on two main questions: what does globalization mean? and how can it be moulded politically? He begins by examining the ambivalences and paradoxes of globality and globalization, with regard to society, economics, politics, ecology and culture. He sets out the rival perspectives in the globalization debate and assesses the prospects for a transnational state. Central to the book is Beck's argument that a decisive critique of globalism is necessary to make space for the primacy of politics. In the last section, he offers a series of constructive proposals to counter the current paralysis of politics, suggesting ten ways of addressing and answering the challenges of the global age. The book concludes by conjecturing that if our politicians do not respond creatively to the challenge, we will experience what Beck calls 'the Brazilianization of Europe'.
This book will be an important text for students and scholars in politics, sociology, geography and the social sciences generally. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in key social and political issues in the world today.
