Held & McGrew:Globalization/Anti-Globalization

"Held and McGrew's second edition of Globalization/Anti-Globalization is a thoroughgoing revision of an already outstanding book. Held and McGrew do more than survey the field: they discuss how we might respond to globalization and how we could construct an effective politics to lessen its major negative consequences whilst improving the lives of the vast bulk of the world's population. This is a stunningly impressive book – a must-have reference work on the central debates within the globalization literature."

Steve Smith, University of Exeter

Held and McGrew argue that globalization is still a powerful force, by focusing upon the primary structures of world order namely: patterns of governance, organized violence, the economy, culture and environmental degradation. Patterns of inequality, exclusion and domination are also assessed.

Held & McGrew:Globalization Theory

"A timely and challenging volume from a first-rate roster of contributors."

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton University

This book focuses on elucidating leading theoretical approaches to understanding and explaining globalization, in both its current form and potential future shapes. It is divided into two parts: the first examines competing explanatory theories of globalization in its contemporary form, and the second looks at competing prescriptions for the future of globalization.

Held:Global Transformations Reader

The reader is divided into six sections covering all the key issues in the debate:

• controversy over the meaning, causes and historical significance of 'globalization'
• the transformation of state power and civil society;
• changing patterns of national culture;
• the power of global markets;
• global inequality and its consequences; and
• the nature of the global order and normative aspirations for its future.

Held:Global Transformations

"I was pleasantly and genuinely surprised by the depth and intensity of analysis and argument contained in the book despite its wide-ranging subject matter ... Students of international affairs who long for books that go beyond the minutiae of globalisation and look at the big picture should consider this book compulsory reading."

Nick Grimwade, Times Higher Education Supplement

Clarifies the notion of globalization, and places contemporary developments in a historical context. It provides detailed accounts of how the current phase of globalization is transforming modern societies in the areas of politics, economics, culture and communication, migration, environmental issues, law and military affairs. Throughout the book the authors bring out the implications of globalization for the sovereignty and autonomy of states and for the practice of modern politics and democracy.

Scott Lash and Celia Lury: Global Culture Industry

"This pathbreaking study will stimulate the intellectual debate for years to come."

Manuel Castells, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Tells the compelling story of how material objects such as watches and sportswear have become powerful cultural symbols, and how the production of symbols, in the form of globally recognized brands, has now become a central goal of capitalism.

Pogge: World Poverty and Human Rights (NEW EDITION!)

"This book is the product of a powerful and generative philosophical imagination. ... This is certainly the most acute study of the moral dimensions of world poverty to date; it is also a significant work of philosophy in its own right."

Ethics & International Affairs

Pogge analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.

Held and Kaya: Global Inequality

"This book offers a rich and diverse menu of perspectives on global inequality. There is no better place to start if you want to understand why so many intelligent people disagree so vehemently on the facts, their interpretation, and what to do about them."

Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

Held and Kaya examine the major issues that need to be confronted in conceptualizing, measuring and analysing contemporary patterns of global inequality. In addition, they explore the implications of these patterns for politics and public policy. In explaining the complex global patterns of social stratification, they highlight an intensive debate about whether and to what extent inequality matters. The book also addresses this debate, and seeks to set out the major alternative positions.

Hirst, Thompson & Bromley:Globalization in Question 2nd Edition

"One of those rare books that deserve to be read across the social sciences, from economics to politics, sociology and anthropology. Hirst and Thompson show that views about the international economy widely accepted on the right and the left rest on a series of erroneous factual claims. They make a strong case for a social democratic agenda as not only feasible but also more effective than that of economic liberalism."

Robert Wade, Brown University

The second edition considers issues that have become salient in the period since the first edition was published, including the impact of the internationalization of economic relations on the welfare state, the various debates about the concept of "competitiveness", the Asian crisis, and the relationships between the North and the South in terms of their effects on wage rates and living standards.

Jones:Dictionary of Globalization

"An excellent review of the key concepts linked to globilazation as well as brief resumes of the ideas of many key thinkers in the field. A really valuable text for all those working on globalization."

Diane Perrons, London School of Economics and Political Science

Comprises an A-Z of entries covering every major aspect of the globalization debate from 9/11 to Zapatistas, the World Bank to the World Social Forum.

The entries, ranging from 100 to 500 words in length, are divided into three core categories:

• institutions and organizations
• processes and phenomena
• key thinkers

Each entry is accompanied by a few carefully selected recommendations for further reading to help students deepen their understanding of the topic in question. The dictionary concludes with a section of additional readings grouped around key themes such as economic, political and cultural globalization.