Globalization
People, Perspectives, and Progress
William H. Mott(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 30. May 2004
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-275-97917-1 (ISBN)
Description
This study expands the narrow economic-commercial focus of the topical media and places globalization in a multidisciplinary context as a continuing process and a permanent condition that transforms human living and society. Early chapters review the development of globalization as creating and diffusing knowledge, expanding people's perspectives on living, and continuing progress. These chapters introduce globalization as an iterative, human, and deliberate process of creating new knowledge and using it to reinterpret the world, time, and man's place in both. The later chapters present the major analytical perspectives of globalization-political, cultural, and economic-and a comparison of the primary carriers of globalism and barriers to globalization.
Drawing on classical and modern analysis, as well as narrow, topical journalism, the work focuses each perspective on people through the human processes of creating knowledge and living together. The work expands the economic perspective beyond the fashionable focus on trade and investment into the triggering and shadowing relationships between economic growth, political conflict, and social stress. The political perspective expands international politics and law to global governance, triadic dispute resolution, and global civil society. The cultural and antiglobal perspectives reflect the success of economic globalization in bringing people directly into the narrowly rational processes of international politics and economics. The final analytical chapter collects and compares observations and develops conclusions about globalization across the several perspectives. Speculation about alterative futures for globalizing humanity can constitute a coherent standard, ideal, or direction for policymaking, or an agenda for continuing research and debate.
Drawing on classical and modern analysis, as well as narrow, topical journalism, the work focuses each perspective on people through the human processes of creating knowledge and living together. The work expands the economic perspective beyond the fashionable focus on trade and investment into the triggering and shadowing relationships between economic growth, political conflict, and social stress. The political perspective expands international politics and law to global governance, triadic dispute resolution, and global civil society. The cultural and antiglobal perspectives reflect the success of economic globalization in bringing people directly into the narrowly rational processes of international politics and economics. The final analytical chapter collects and compares observations and develops conclusions about globalization across the several perspectives. Speculation about alterative futures for globalizing humanity can constitute a coherent standard, ideal, or direction for policymaking, or an agenda for continuing research and debate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-275-97917-1 (9780275979171)
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Person
WILLIAM H. MOTT IV is a Predoctoral Tutor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has spent all of his adult life in public service as a military and diplomatic officer, and as a teacher and scholar. In a 30-year career in the U.S. Army with dual foci on Command and Military Diplomacy, he observed, analyzed, and managed behaviors of governments and people under stress and in control in both Europe and Asia. He completed his postgraduate work at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Content
Preface Acknowledgements Knowledge, Perspectives, and People Knowledge and Knowledge Creation The Power of Perspective The Idea of Progress The Political Perspective Cultural Globalization The Economic Perspective The Double Movement: Globalization and Antiglobalism The Global Perspective Select Bibliography Author Index Subject Index