Overview

Globalization has, within academic, political and business circles alike, become the buzz word of the 1990s, conjuring an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations and attendant mythologies. In this volume an array of international academics assess the contribution of the globalization thesis, in its various guises, to our understanding of social, political and economic change in contemporary societies. They expose, challenge and demystify many of the exaggerated and over-generalized claims made about globalization, whilst developing a distinctive ""third wave"" perspective on the world we inhabit and the processes currently reconfiguring it.

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'With welcome scholarly care and attention, this hugely impressive book takes a step back from the often frenzied discussions about globalization. The result is an important volume that supplies both a comprehensive survey of debates about globalization and a series of penetrating interventions into that literature. It is a book that should become essential reading for all students of comparative and international political economy'. - Ben Rosamond, University of Warwick '...a welcome addition to the growing list of publications on the new global economy.- Constantine E. Passaris, Review of Political Economy

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COLIN HAY is lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of books including Re-Stating Social and Political Change, The Political Economy of New Labour: Labouring Under False Pretences?, Theorizing Modernity (with M. O'Brien and S.Penna) and Postwar British Politics in Perspective (with D.Marsh et al). DAVID MARSH is Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of numerous books including The New Politics of British Trade Unionism, Comparing Policy Networks, Theory and Methods in Political Science (with G.Stoker), Marxism and Social Science (with A.Gamble and T.Tant) and Postwar British Politics in Perspective (with J.Buller et al). He is the editor of the British Journal of Political and International Studies.

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