Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order

Ino Rossi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at St. John's University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Anthropology Full Circle (Praeger, 1987), People in Culture (Praeger, 1980), The Logic of Culture (Bergin & Garvey, 1982).

An encyclopedic coverage of regions and issues, some of the best scholarship in the field, and an emphasis on solutions make this book an important contribution.”Miguel Angel Centeno, Princeton University“Exceptionally diverse and comprehensive… [this] is certain to become an essential reference work on the economic, moral, human rights and civilizational aspects of globalization.”Daniel Chirot, University of Washington“…a much-needed comprehensive, updated, and non-Western-centric introduction to the origins, dynamics, and latest trends of globalization as seen from the perspectives of Global North and South.”Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University“..a timely and solid overview of the key theoretical and methodological challenges faced across the social sciences as we seek to understand the possible futures of globalization.”Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, University of Maryland“Ino Rossi has brought together a range of authors covering multiple aspects of our current condition. This diversity of engagements is what we need to sort out our major challenges.”Saskia Sassen, Columbia University"It is the best collection of studies on ecological globalization, latest impact on the Global South, millennia ascent of individual rights, and alternative designs of the future world order."Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyThis is a must-read volume on globalization in which some of the foremost scholars in the field discuss the latest issues. Truly providing a global perspective, it includes authorship and discussions from the Global North and South, and covers the major facets of globalization: cultural, economic, ecological and political. It discusses the historical developments in governance preceding globalization, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization, and analyzes underdevelopment, anti-globalization movements, global poverty, global inequality, and the debates on international trade versus protectionism. Finally, the volume looks to the future and provides prospects for inter-civilizational understanding, rapprochement, and global cooperation. This will be of great interest to academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science and international relations, economics, social policy, social history, as well as to policy makers.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Globalization and the Millennial Ascent of Individual Rights; Ino Rossi.- PART I. GLOBALIZATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY: CONCEPTUALIZING AND EXPLORING GLOBALIZATION: Introduction: Chapter 2. The Global Turn; Roland Robertson.- Chapter 3. Global Systemic Anthropology and the Analysis of Globalization;  Jonathan Friedman.- Chapter4.  Media, Sociocultural Change, and Meta-Culture; York Kautt.- Chapter 5. Globalization and the Challenge of the Anthropocene; Leslie Sklair.- Chapter 6. Conceptual Structures for a Theory of World Society; Rudolf Stichweh.- Chapter 7. Principles of Geo-Political Dynamics; Jonathan H. Turner.- Chapter 8. Transdisciplinarity in Globalization Research: The Global Studies Framework;  Manfred B. Steger. PART: GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES: CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL: ON CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION : Chapter 9 Goals, Values, and Endemic Conflicts in the New Global Culture; Martin Albrow.- Chapter 10. The Affectual Landscape of Globalization: New Migration, Generalized Discontent, and Ressentiment; Jörg Dürrschmidt.- Chapter 11. Globalization, Cosmopolitanization, and a New Research Agenda; Joy Zhang.-. PART ON POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION : Chapter 12. Global Transformations in Polity, Policy, and Politics: World Polity, Europe, and the Nation-State;  Didem Buhari Gulmez.- Chapter 13. The Politics of the Adjective Global: May’s Global Britain and the ‘New World’; Sabine Selchow.- Chapter 14.  (Postmodern) Populism as a Trope for Contested Glocality; Barrie Axford.- Chapter 15. Globalization and the Rise of the Economic State: PRC and USA in Comparison;  Guoguang Wu PART:  ON ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: Chapter 16. Trade Globalization and Its Consequences; Michael C. Dreiling.- Chapter 17. The Political Economy of the United States and the Structure of the Millennial World-System;  Salvatore Babones.- Chapter 18. Global Inequality and Capitalist World-Economy, 1500—Present: A Critique of Neo-Modernization Theories;  Sahan S. Karatasli.- Chapter 19. Mind the Gaps! Clustered Obstacles to Mobility in the Core/Periphery Hierarchy; Marilyn Grell-Brisk and Christopher Chase-Dunn.- Chapter 20. Global Inequality and Global Poverty; Robert Holton. PART: ON ECOLOGICAL GLOBALIZATION: Chapter 21. Reconfiguring Ecology in the Twenty-First–Century. Social Movements as Producers of the Global Age; Geoffrey Pleyers.- Chapter 22. Globalization, Marginalization, and the External Arena; Robert Schaeffer.- Chapter 23.  Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements; Christopher Chase-Dunn, James Fenelon, Thomas D. Hall, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson, and Joel Herrera.- PART: GLOBALIZATION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: VIEWS FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC: Globalization and Political Economy Chapter 24. Globalization in Asia or Asian Globalization?; Habibul Haque Khondker.- Chapter 25. China’s Global Rise: From Socialist Self-reliance to the Embracement of Economic Globalization; Yin-wah Chu.- Chapter 26. The Newness of the Chinese Developmental State Under Xi’s Administration;  Falin Zhang.- Chapter 27. India’s Transition: A New Complex of Capitalism and Hindu Nationalism; Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar, and Sayonee Majumdar.- Chapter 28. Socially Sustainable Globalization? The Domestic Politics of Globalization in Australia; Tom Conley. Part: Impact of Globalization on Culture.- Chapter 29. Neoliberalism Without Guarantees: The Glocality of Labor,Education, and Sport in Japan from the 1980s to the 2000s; Koji Kobayashi and Steven J. Jackson.- Chapter 30.  “The Impact of Globalization on Chinese Culture and “Glocalized Practices” in China”; Ning Wang.- Chapter 31.  Border-Crossing and Interfacing in Asia: Approaches, Patterns, and Consequences; Ming-Chang Tsai.- Chapter 32. Transformations in Kinship Relations in a Globalized India: Interrogating Marriage, Law, and Intimacy;  Rukmini Sen Part: Globalization, Law and Democracy.- Chapter 33. The Ascent of Asian Strongmen: Emerging Market Populism and the Revolt Against Liberal Globalization;  Richard Javad Heydarian.- Chapter 34. Globalization and Indian Political Modernity; Leïla Choukroune.- Chapter 35. Whose Democracy? Governing Indonesia in a Globalized World; Lena Tan PART: VIEWS FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: Globalization and Political Culture.- Chapter 36. Globalization, Democracy, and Good Governance in Africa; Ngozi Nwogwugwu.- Chapter 37. Political Globalization in an African Perspective: Continuity and Change; Goran Hyden Globalization, Poverty and Economic Development.- Chapter 38. Human Capital Contribution to the Economic Growth of Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Health Status Matter? Evidence from Dynamic Panel Data; Abel Kinyondo and Mwoya Byaro.- Chapter 39. Globalization, Poverty, and Development in Africa: Looking Past to the Future; Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Ebenezer Babajide Ishola,and Israel Kehinde Ekanade.- Chapter 40. Africa’s Industrialization and Prosperity: Time for Structural Change;  David Sseppuuya PART: VIEWS FROM LATIN AMERICA: Globalization and Political Economy.- Chapter 41. Latin America: Between the Promises of Globalization and the Chimera of Nationalism; Ronaldo Munck.- Chapter 42. Globalization and the Transformation of Latin America’s Political Economy; William I. Robinson.- Chapter 43. The Caribbean and Global Capitalism: Five Strategic Traits; Jeb Sprague.- Part Impact of Globalization on Culture: Chapter 44. Through Thick and Thin: Globalization and Contested Conceptualizations of the Rule of Law in Latin America; Craig L. Arceneaux.- Chapter 45.  Indigenous People in Pluricultural Nations of Latin America; June Nash PART: DESIGNS FOR A FUTURE WORLD ORDER: Introduction: TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC GLOBALIZATION Chapter 46. Re-embracing the Masses Economically by Financialization;  Jürgen Schraten.- Chapter 47. A Manifesto for Good Globalization: Or, the Manifesto as Method; Paul James.- Chapter 48. Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel;  Rebecca Álvarez and Christopher Chase-Dunn.- Chapter 49. Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization;  Vishwas Satgar PART: ALTERNATIVE CIVILIZATIONAL DESIGNS: Chapter 50. Global Mobilization in the Name of Islam: the Global Imaginary of Political Islam;  Amentahru Wahlrab and Rebecca A. Otis.- Chapter 51.  Tian Xia: A Confucian Model of State Identity and Global Governance;  Tongdong Bai.- Chapter 52.  Russian Civilization and Global Culture: Alternative or Coexistence?; Ilya Ilyin and Olga Leonova.- Chapter 53.  (Re)Constructing Neo-Confucianism in a “Glocalized” Context;  Ning Wang PART: TOWARD AN INTER-CIVILIZATIONAL AND COSMIC WORLD ORDER: Chapter 54. From Cultural Pluralism and Civilizational Disintegration to a Global Cultural-cum-civilizational System;  Alexander N. Chumakov.- Chapter 55. From World Politics to a World Political System;  Olga Leonova and Ilya Ilyin.- Chapter 56. The Final Frontier of Global Society and the Evolution of Space Governance; Eytan Tepper .- PART. CONCLUSION: Chapter 57. Toward a New Globalization Paradigm and a UDHR-Based Inter-civilizational World Order - Ino Rossi