Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

"Making the World Global is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its effects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of “new conditions of academic knowledge production," [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet.” - Rafael Khachaturian (Perspectives on Politics) “[Making the World Global] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together....”- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (International Politics Reviews) "Making the World Global merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples." - Paul A. Kramer (Reviews in American History)

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xviiIntroduction: Globalization and the World  1Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary1. "Creative Imagination" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary  292. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary  62Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary  834. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary  118Part III. Reproducing the Global University5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have "Reform" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies  1416. An Opportunity to Transform the University, and, Frankly, the World: John Sexton and the Global Networked University  168Conclusion: Reworlding the Global  189Notes  195References  231Index  269

Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

"Making the World Global is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its effects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of “new conditions of academic knowledge production," [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet.” - Rafael Khachaturian (Perspectives on Politics) “[Making the World Global] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together....”- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (International Politics Reviews) "Making the World Global merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples." - Paul A. Kramer (Reviews in American History)

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xviiIntroduction: Globalization and the World  1Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary1. "Creative Imagination" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary  292. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary  62Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary  834. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary  118Part III. Reproducing the Global University5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have "Reform" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies  1416. An Opportunity to Transform the University, and, Frankly, the World: John Sexton and the Global Networked University  168Conclusion: Reworlding the Global  189Notes  195References  231Index  269

Isaac A. Kamola is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and coeditor of Politics of African Anticolonial Archive and The Transnational Politics of Higher Education: Contesting the Global/Transforming the Local.

"Making the World Global is a rich and intriguing exploration of academic knowledge production and its effects on the material conditions of the world. In calling for the creation of “new conditions of academic knowledge production," [it] poses a necessary challenge that we should strive to meet.” - Rafael Khachaturian (Perspectives on Politics) “[Making the World Global] is an important book with a guaranteed long shelf life and indeed virtual space life. His theoretical framework is part of emerging works that seek to bring Marxism and Decoloniality together....”- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (International Politics Reviews) "Making the World Global merits high praise for accomplishing something that only some intellectual histories of the U.S. in the world succeed at: tying ideas, their makers, and their institutional homes to their lived consequences for the world's peoples." - Paul A. Kramer (Reviews in American History)

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xviiIntroduction: Globalization and the World  1Part I. Reproducing the National Imaginary1. "Creative Imagination" Is Needed: W. W. Rostow and the Rose of Modernization as a National Imaginary  292. The World's Largest . . . Development Institution: Robert McNamara and the National Development Imaginary  62Part II. Marketing the Global Imaginary3. Marketing Can Be Magic: Theodore Levitt and Globalization as a Market Imaginary  834. Realities of the Global Economy: A. W. Clausen and the Banker's Global Imaginary  118Part III. Reproducing the Global University5. Stakeholders and Co-Investors . . . Have "Reform" on Their Mind: Kenneth Prewitt and the Defunding of Area Studies  1416. An Opportunity to Transform the University, and, Frankly, the World: John Sexton and the Global Networked University  168Conclusion: Reworlding the Global  189Notes  195References  231Index  269