Chirico, J: Globalization

Chapter One: The World Has Gone GlobalChapter Two: Studying GlobalizationChapter Three: Setting the Stage: Foundations of Globalization Waves of Nationhood Early Waves of Economic Globalization Neo-Colonialism and Cold War Strategic Advantage The Contemporary Period of Nation Building Shaping the Modern State Early Globalization of Liberalism Establishing International Law and OrganizationChapter Four: Making the Global Economy Post WWII Waves of Economic Globalization Shaping a New Wave Globalization as Transitioning Industrial Sectors Globalization as Outsourcing and Offshoring Globalization as Trade in Labor Growing Economic Inequalities: Within and Among Societies The Global Economic Crisis The View from the World Social Forum: Civil Society Reports The View from the Group of 20 The Debt Crisis The Circumstances of Globalization Shaping Globalization: The Possibility of a New Order? Questions, Investigations, and ResourcesChapter Five: Forging a Global Civil Society Defining Civil Society Emergence of Global Civil Society The Challenge of Democracy in Global Civil Society Global Civil Society: Interacting Layers of Governance Civil Society Case Studies Case Study: Treaty to Ban Landmines Case Study: The Environmental Regime The Human Rights Regime The Global Field Questions, Investigations, and ResourcesChapter Six: Who Gets What, When and How: Global Governance Propositions for Global Governance Summary Questions, Investigations, and ResourcesChapter Seven: Globalizing Political Culture and State Governance Globalization of Normative Criteria for Governance Wave Effects in Globalization Questions, Investigations, and ResourcesChapter Eight: Trends and Transitions in Democracy 2011: A New Democratic Wave? The Development of Democracy around the World Questions, Investigations, and ResourcesChapter Nine: Globalizing Culture: Change and Continuity Conversion and Divergence in Globalization Global Culture: Compromise and

JoAnn Chirico is a senior instructor of Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Sociological Research Exercises for the Global Age (SAGE, 2009), a 200-page lab manual of twenty-five research exercises with accompanying essays explaining the theories on which the exercises are based. In addition to other publications, she is co-author, with Roland Robertson, of one of the first sociological analyses of globalization, "Humanity, Globalization and Worldwide Religious Resurgence: A Theoretical Exploration," Sociological Analysis: 46-3, fall 1985.

"The work provides strong coverage of a variety of important theoretical perspectives related to globalization and its evolution."