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This book is wonderful. It presents a very clear history of modern globalization and the role the United States has played in this process. It is currently the best book on explaining the historical conditions that have led to modern globalization. -- Gabriel Aquino, Westfield State University Praise for previous editions This clearly written and vastly comprehensive book is a valuable and fascinating read... Schaeffer turns his gaze to topics as varied as inflation, debt crises at home and abroad, stock market booms and busts, hunger and agriculture, free trade agreements, global climate change, democratization, and the global drug trade. In nearly every case, the research is solid and the choice of details fascinating... I would recommend this book for general readers ... or mid-level courses wishing to incorporate a global perspective. Contemporary Sociology Understanding Globalization is an exceptional book that thoroughly covers contemporary issues relating to globalization that students find extremely readable. -- Ione DeOllos, Ball State University Schaeffer presents a balanced and geographically informed perspective on the uneven outcomes of globalization. In the new edition, he has astutely included a discussion of fair trade versus free trade, a new chapter on migration and provides the context for many of the most significant global changes that confront the North and South in the twenty-first century. The book is both accessible and substantial-a rare accomplishment. It has become my 'go-to' book on globalization. -- Lisa Benton-Short, George Washington University

Understanding Globalization is an exceptional book that thoroughly covers contemporary issues relating to globalization that students find extremely readable. -- Ione DeOllos, associate professor of sociology, Ball State University Praise for previous editions: This clearly written and vastly comprehensive book is a valuable and fascinating read... Schaeffer turns his gaze to topics as varied as inflation, debt crises at home and abroad, stock market booms and busts, hunger andagriculture, free trade agreements, global climate change, democratization, and the global drug trade. In nearly every case, the research is solid and the choice of details fascinating... I would recommend this book for general readers ... or mid-level courses wishing to incorporate a global perspective... Contemporary Sociology Schaeffer presents a balanced and geographically informed perspective on the uneven outcomes of globalization. In the new edition, he has astutely included a discussion of fair trade versus free trade, a new chapter on migration and provides the context for many of the most significant global changes that confront the North and South in the twenty-first century. The book is both accessible and substantial-a rare accomplishment. It has become my 'go-to' book on globalization. -- Lisa Benton-Short, George Washington University Praise for previous editions: This clearly written and vastly comprehensive book is a valuable and fascinating read... Schaeffer turns his gaze to topics as varied as inflation, debt crises at home and abroad, stock market booms and busts, hunger and agriculture, free trade agreements, global climate change, democratization, and the global drug trade. In nearly every case, the research is solid and the choice of details fascinating... I would recommend this book for general readers ... or mid-level courses wishing to incorporate a global perspective. Contemporary Sociology

This book is wonderful. It presents a very clear history of modern globalization and the role the United States has played in this process. It is currently the best book on explaining the historical conditions that have led to modern globalization. -- Gabriel Aquino, Westfield State University Understanding Globalization reveals the complex, uneven, and often contradictory outcomes of globalization, such as growing economic inequality in some places, and increasing equality in others. It can facilitate economic integration as it has done in China or exacerbate disintegration and marginalization as it has in Africa. In this fifth edition, Robert Schaeffer explores how globalization impacts long-term processes such as development, democratization, and climate change, and how it can create short-term crises, such as war and conflict, and the 2008 global financial crisis that began in the United States. As a geographer, I appreciate that the book soundly documents the consequences that globalization has on both people and places, and that it seeks to explain a dynamic that is unevenly experienced around the world. The book is both accessible and substantial-a rare accomplishment. It has become my 'go-to' book on globalization. -- Lisa Benton-Short, George Washington University Praise for previous editions: This clearly written and vastly comprehensive book is a valuable and fascinating read. . . . Schaeffer turns his gaze to topics as varied as inflation, debt crises at home and abroad, stock market booms and busts, hunger and agriculture, free trade agreements, global climate change, democratization, and the global drug trade. In nearly every case, the research is solid and the choice of details fascinating. . . . I would recommend this book for general readers . . . or mid-level courses wishing to incorporate a global perspective. * Contemporary Sociology * Understanding Globalization is an exceptional book that thoroughly covers contemporary issues relating to globalization that students find extremely readable. -- Ione DeOllos, Ball State University

This book is wonderful. It presents a very clear history of modern globalization and the role the United States has played in this process. It is currently the best book on explaining the historical conditions that have led to modern globalization. -- Gabriel Aquino, Westfield State University Understanding Globalization reveals the complex, uneven, and often contradictory outcomes of globalization, such as growing economic inequality in some places, and increasing equality in others. It can facilitate economic integration as it has done in China or exacerbate disintegration and marginalization as it has in Africa. In this fifth edition, Robert Schaeffer explores how globalization impacts long-term processes such as development, democratization, and climate change, and how it can create short-term crises, such as war and conflict, and the 2008 global financial crisis that began in the United States. As a geographer, I appreciate that the book soundly documents the consequences that globalization has on both people and places, and that it seeks to explain a dynamic that is unevenly experienced around the world. The book is both accessible and substantial-a rare accomplishment. It has become my 'go-to' book on globalization. -- Lisa Benton-Short, George Washington University Praise for previous editions: This clearly written and vastly comprehensive book is a valuable and fascinating read... Schaeffer turns his gaze to topics as varied as inflation, debt crises at home and abroad, stock market booms and busts, hunger and agriculture, free trade agreements, global climate change, democratization, and the global drug trade. In nearly every case, the research is solid and the choice of details fascinating... I would recommend this book for general readers ... or mid-level courses wishing to incorporate a global perspective. Contemporary Sociology Understanding Globalization is an exceptional book that thoroughly covers contemporary issues relating to globalization that students find extremely readable. -- Ione DeOllos, Ball State University

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Robert K. Schaeffer is professor of sociology at California Polytechnic State University. He is author or coauthor of a number of books, including Social Movements and Global Social Change: The Rising Tide and Fast Forward: Work, Gender, and Protest in a Changing World.

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