ABSTRACT
Globalization and Social Change challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization. Rather than seeing globalization as 'the end station of capitalism', it presents the development of this phenomenon as a disruptive and conflicting process.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality
chapter 3|21 pages
Globalization and social change
Drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation
part |2 pages
Part II Critical perspectives on the role of politics
part |2 pages
Part III East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme
part |2 pages
Part IV Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts
part |2 pages
Part V Globalization and forms of resistances