ABSTRACT
This book examines the changing nature of global inequalities and efforts that are being made to move toward a more egalitarian world society. The contributors are world historical sociologists and geographers who place the contemporary issues of unequal power, wealth and income in a global historical perspective. The geographers examine the roles of geopolitics and patterns of warfare in the historical development of the modern world-system, and the sociologists examine endeavours to improve the situations of poor peoples and nations and to engage the challenges of sustainability that are linked with global inequalities. Overcoming Global Inequalities contains cutting-edge research from engaged social scientists intended to help humanity deal with the challenges of global inequality in the 21st century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|75 pages
Historical Development of Inequalities
chapter |16 pages
1: Commodification of Citizenship
chapter |16 pages
3: Political Prominence and the World-System
chapter |13 pages
4: Foreign Investment, Political Corruption, and Internal Violence
chapter |15 pages
5: Transnationally Implicated Labor Processes as Transnational Social Relations
part II|63 pages
Geopolitics and Warfare as Arenas of Struggle
chapter |42 pages
6: Territorial Alliances and Emerging-Market Development Banking
chapter |19 pages
7: One Logic, Many Wars
part III|80 pages
Social Movements in Struggle