ABSTRACT
Is the state being weakened by globalization? Does national economic policy converge under the competitive pressure of globalization? Who is gaining or losing from globalization, and why? For the last ten years, these questions have been in the focus of public debate and political science research. Meanwhile, research has produced substantial empirical analyses on many aspects of globalization, leading to a substantiation of some arguments and to a weakening of others. While the coverage of globalization in the media is often still shaped by special interests and myths, political science has achieved cognitive progress in several instances. These advances in political science research benefited from economics and included several fields of political science, especially “international relations”, “comparative politics” and “political economy”. In view of the increasingly differentiated research on globalization, this volume attempts to systematically present the core fields and results of research on globalization focusing on the advances made in the last ten years.
