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Can Globality Bring a Good Society?

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Is globalization a good thing? For its proponents, this contemporary social trend has opened the way variously to worldwide liberal democracy, huge efficiency gains, enhanced consumer satisfaction, increased environmental consciousness, enabled greater intercultural communication, and brought an end to warfare. In contrast, critics have faulted contemporary globalization for in one way and another impeding democracy, imposing a post-colonial imperialism, deepening social inequalities, suppressing vulnerable cultures, undermining every fabric of community, massively aggravating ecological degradation, and compromising every claim to knowledge. With such claims and counterclaims, the stakes in globalization debates are clearly high. The arguments can understandably become passionate.

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  1. Jan Aart Scholte
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  1. Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Preet S. Aulakh (Associate Professor of International Business) (Associate Professor of International Business)

  2. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Michael G. Schechter (Professor of International Relations) (Professor of International Relations)

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Scholte, J.A. (2000). Can Globality Bring a Good Society?. In: Aulakh, P.S., Schechter, M.G. (eds) Rethinking Globalization(s). International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62425-6_2

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