Globalizations are plural

Examines globalization as plural, historical processes in the social sciences and in world issues; 14 articles. Contents: Globalizations: dimensions, historical waves, regional effects, normative governance, by Göran Therborn; Three concepts of globalization, by Jens Bartleson; The constituent economic principles of globalization in historical perspective: myths and realities, by Paul Bairoch; Coloniality of power and eurocentrism in Latin America, by Aníbal Quijano; Globalization: sources and effects on national states and societies, by John W. Meyer; Globalization or the age of transition? a long-term view of the trajectory of the world system, by Immanuel Wallerstein; Economic globalization, crisis and the emergence of Chinese business communities in Southeast Asia, by Henry Wai-chung Yeung; Neither states nor markets: the role of economic organization in Asian Development, by Gary Hamilton, et al.; Structural adjustment and the globalization of social policy in Latin America, by Asa Cristina Laurell; Globalization in the neighborhood: from the nation-state to Bilkent Center, by Banu Helvacioglu; Transnational networking and the social production of representations of identities by indigenous people's organizations of Latin America, by Daniel Mato; Globalization, development politics and local knowledge, by Mamadou Diawara; Territory and territoriality in the global economy, by Saskia Sassen; Regulating globalization? the reinvention of politics, by David Held.