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| Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture | 
| Authors: David Held, Anthony Mcgrew, David Goldblatt, Jonathan Perraton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 474204
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 540
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0804736278
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9780804736275
ASIN: 0804736278
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
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 A guidepost in a changing world October 4, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was first published in 1999 and although it can look a little outdated given the many tumultuous World developments in the following few years, Global transformations still remains a comprehensive treatment of a vast subject with ever changing borders. The authors strike the right balance between theory and evidence, history and geography. However, their main contribution is the areas they cover (i.e. global politics, military globalization, global trade and markets, global finance, multinational corporations and global production networks, globalization and migration, cultural globalization, environmental globalization). The authors state at the beginning that they will concentrate on 6 states (France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, UK and USA), however, they are not able to fulfill this self-imposed constraint. This book does not cover globalization as perceived in the developing word.
They don't explicitly propose either a specific theory or their own view, but they muse with their topic and look at it through different lenses. It is not a readerly text, but an open text that invites interpretations and critical thinking. However, this does not mean that the authors were pursuing a full-fledged post-modern approach, even if here and there the authors give rise to such suspicion.
The authors analyze globalization as a process, therefore it is difficult to predict where it will lead us. It is a historical process that cannot be characterized by an evolutionary logic. However, globalization is not a wholly novel phenomenon, but its intensity has increased. The authors come to prefigure that the current phase of globalization is not going to erode state power or cause "the end of politics" like the end of the Cold War didn't mean "the end of history". Globalization has not altered the absolute autonomy of states, but interactions among states have changed and become more complex. A question still remains: How can globalization be "civilized" and democratized?
The book is highly recommended to all who consider globalization as a defining principle of our time.
Uncover Globalisation June 20, 2004
David Held continues a tradition of uncovering the whole side of social processes. Now it is time to uncover the great cliche of our times: globalisation (considered here as a process)!! Reviews and categorizes current thinking on the issue plus explores the multi-dimensionality of the processes of globalisation in a comparative way with the past globalisations (i.e. military-industrial, trade, finance, production, people on the move, culture).
 valuable text, dull read August 21, 2002
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
One of the most fact-packed, intelligent studies of globalization, but this is noone's beach reading. I recommend reading the intro and thereafter using it as a reference. For a more literary, bizarre, and stimulating take on the contemporary global condition, check out Hardt and Negri's Empire.
 boring, wordy, and dense...definite thumbs down June 26, 2002
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
If your goal is to learn the effect globalization has on the state, society, and politics in general this book provides alot of information but it presented in a way that will put you to sleep. Instead of reading the chapters I would recommend going straight to the tables and grids provided because the author does not do a good job of getting to the point. I also found that the grids and tables were a good source of what each chapter actually summed up. I would, however, have to credit the authors for doing a thorough job of covering the various aspects of globalization- from patterns of global finance to global trade and markets to military globalization. Best chapter is the one that deals with migration-otherwise don't bother with this book- you would probably be better of with another book that covers globalization.
Thumbs down January 28, 2002
2 out of 40 found this review helpful
this book is a load of crap. hope that helped.
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