Description
This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Introduction.
Vitual Tax-Payers.
The National State Caught between World Economy and Individualization: What is to be Done?.
The Globalization Shock: A Belated Discussion.
Part I: Dimensions, Controversies, Definitions: .
1. The World Horizon Opens Up: On the Sociology of Globalization.
2. Transnational Civil Society: How a Cosmopolitan Vision is Emerging.
3. Contours of World Society: Rival Perspectives.
Part II: Perspectives:.
4. Errors of Globalism.
5. Responses to Globalization.
6. Europe and Globalization.
Conclusion: Decline a la Carte: The Brazilianization of Europe.
Further Reading.
Index.
