Demystifying Globalization

ATTILA AGH Head of Political Science, Budapest University of Economics and Director, Hungarian Centre for Democracy Studies ANDREAS BUSCH Lecturer, Political Science Department, Heidelberg University JOHN CLAMMER Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo NGAI-LING SUM Simon Research Fellow, International Centre for Labour Studies, Manchester University PETER J. TAYLOR Professor of Geography, University of Loughborough NIGEL THRIFT Professor of Geography, University of Bristol DANIEL WINCOTT Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham

Globalization, within academic, political and business circles alike, conjures an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations and attendant mythologies.Globalization, within academic, political and business circles alike, conjures an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations and attendant mythologies. In this volume a distinguished array of international academics assess the contribution of the globalization thesis, in its various guises, to our understanding of social, political and economic change in contemporary societies. They expose, challenge and demystify many of the exaggerated and overgeneralized claims made about globalization, whilst developing a distinctive 'third wave' perspective on the world we inhabit and the processes currently reconfiguring it.