Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Jacques Hersh

• Introduction 1. Globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh Part I. The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology and reality 2. Globalization in question David Harvey 3. The future of global polarization Samir Amin 4. Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation Manfred Bienefeld Part II. Critical perspectives on the role of politics 5. The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution Anne Showstack Sassoon 6. Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge Andrew Jamison 7. The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory Joachim Hirsch Part III. East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme 8. Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and specualtors Amiya Kumar Bagchi 9. Globalization and class politics in South Korea Kwang-Yeong Shin 10. Globalization, democratization and labour social welfare in Thailand Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt Part IV. Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts 11. States and governance in the era of 'globalization' Philip McMichael 12. Civilization conflicts and globalization: a critique Jacques Hersh 13. From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization? Mark Juergensmeyer Part V. Globalization and forms of resistances 14. Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance Barry K. Gills 15. Lessons from Ladakh? local responses to globalization and social change Martijn van Beek 16. Conceptualizing a new social contract Ellen Brun