Abstract
Globalization has become from the early 1990s onwards the central topic of debate in social science and in much public debate, in both developed and developing societies. That something momentous and far-reaching is going on is indisputable even if its likely end state is not yet possible to discern. There is, however, a need, in the bacchanalian whirl of generalization and meta-historical claim which has masked discussion of globalization, for conceptual precision both about what the term is supposed to mean and about what it is that is being globalized. More caution than has often been evident is also required about mixing into one supposedly unified process what are often distinct developments, to leave open how far the different elements of globalization are indeed connected. Changes in family structure, or the rise and fall of secular ideas, or the spread of fast food, are not necessarily related to trade liberalization or the Internet; the collapse of communism was only partially related to the processes known as globalization, even though the two processes coincided in the late 1980s and early l990s; the rise of ethnic and nationalist protest movements, and the cult of identity, may be seen equally as a revolt against globalization and a component of it.
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Amidst a vast literature I have drawn in particular on Paul Hirst and Graham Thompson, Globalisation in Question, The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996);
Harry Gelber, Sovereignty Through Interdependence (London: Kluwer, 1997);
David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999);
Anthony Giddens, Runaway World (London: Profile Books, 1999);
Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization, A Critical Introduction (London: Macmillan, 2000.)
Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics (London: Allen Lane, 1999).
The World Bank, World Development Report 1999/2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 9).
Robert Shiller, Irrational Exuberance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957).
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Halliday, F. (2001). Globalization and its Discontents. In: The World at 2000. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-99427-6_5
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