The Globalization Reader

by Frank J. Lechner (Editor)

Thoroughly revised and updated, The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.Fully revised and updated with new readings on global governance, world soccer, the recent global financial crisis, global health, American evangelicals, and tropical deforestationIncludes coverage on economic globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, and the link between environmentalism and the globalization of social problemsFeatures coverage that ranges across economic, political, cultural, and experiential dimensions of social change Offers a wide variety of perspectives on globalization and captures many of the fault lines in current debatesStimulates discussion by including provocative contemporary works and by structuring sections around arguments that serve as connecting themes

Genres: Sociology, Economics, Politics, Nonfiction, International Relations, Textbooks, Anthropology

542 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 1999

Reviews

[Ashley Freix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall a pretty good book. Read the 6th edition for my Globalization graduate level course. The only thing I found a little challenging about the book is that many of the chapters pulled from other authors who's work is pretty outdated. I hope their next version has more recent studies (2015 and forward). I learned a TON from this book.

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 ⭐️’s
Forgot to update this as “read” after I finished my globalization class!
I really did learn a lot from this (even if I did just skim most of our assigned readings), but a lot of it is also pretty dull and confusing because it’s a whole bunch of essays.

[Kevin Nobel · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book gives the reader a great sense of the state of the world and globalization's impact on every part of it...just mostly for twenty years ago.

[Bianca]

read 4th edition (2011).

[Nanto]

Kompilasi sejumlah tulisan mengenai globalisasi. globalisasi dipandang dari sejumlah kajian: politik, budaya, dll. beberapa tulisannya sudah banyak dikenal the clash of civilization-nya huntington, the end of history-nya fukuyama, dan yang termasuk klasik di HI adalah the complex of interdependence-nya Keohane dan Nye.

[Alyssa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another one from that geography class. Probably kept it because it was interesting, but I can't really remember.

[Nicolas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required reading for school.