The politics of globalization: a reader

Ch. 1. Globalization as contested terrain

ch. 2. Great transformations and double movements : déjà vu all over again?

The Manifesto of the communist party (excerpts) / Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time / Karl Polanyi

How to judge globalism / Amartya Sen

Globalization and its limits : reports of the death of the national economy are greatly exaggerated / Robert Wade

Sinking globalization / Niall Ferguson

ch. 3. The economics of globalization

The lexus and the olive treee : understanding globalization / Thomas L. Friedman

It's a flat world after all / Thomas Friedman

Why globalization works / Martin Wolf

Globalism's discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz

The two faces of globalization : against globalization as we know it / Branko Milanovic

Stolen harvest : the hijacking of the global food supply / Vandana Shiva

ch. 4. The impact of globalization on poverty and inequality

Spreading the wealth / David Dollar and Aart Kraay

The disturbing rise of poverty and inequality : is it all a "big lie"? / Robert Hunter Wade

Why globalization works / Martin Wolf

In defense of globalization / Jagdish Bhagwati

Ch. 5. Workers and work in the global economy

Dying for growth, part I : transnational corporations and the health of the poor / Joyce V. Millen and Timothy H. Holtz

Reebok and the global footwear sweatshop / Bernard D'Mello

Two cheers for sweatshops / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn

Falling fortunes of the wage earner : average pay dipped last year for the first time in nearly a decade / Steven Greenhouse

ch. 6. National States and globalization

The retreat of the state : the diffusion of power in the world economy / Susan Strange

The fate of the state / Martin Van Creveld

The state and globalization / Saskia Sassen

Guiding globalisation in East Asia : new roles for old developmental states / Linda Weiss

ch. 7. Global governance with global government?

National, regional, and global governance : one phenomemon or many? / Elke Krahmann

Globalization and its discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz

The IMF strikes back / Kenneth Rogoff

The mother of all governments : the world bank's matrix for global governance / Paul Cammack

Dying for growth, part II : the political influence of national and transnational corporations / Joyce V. Millen, Evan Lyon, and Alec Irwin

Ch. 8. Imperialism

Liberal hegemony or empire? American power in the age of unipolarity / G. John Ikenberry

Global capitalism and American empire / Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin

The sorrows of empire : militarism, secrecy, and the end of the republic / Chalmers Johnson

Beyond militarism, arms races, and arms control / Mary Kaldor

Colossus : the price of America's empire / Niall Ferguson

Incoherent empire / Michael Mann

The soft underbelly of American primacy : tactical advantages of terror / Richard K. Betts

ch. 9. Globalization from below

Activists beyond borders : advocacy networks in international politics / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink

No logo : taking aim at the brand bullies / Naomi Klein

Still poor, Latin Americans protest push for open markets / Juan Forero

The ecology of the movements / Notes from nowhere

The global dimensions of religious terrorism / Mark Juergensmeyer

ch. 10. Culture and migration

Horizontal politics : transnational environmental activism and global cultural change / Paul Wapner

Globalization and culture : global mélange / Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Immigration in a global era / Saskia Sassen

Ch. 11. Conclusion: What is to be done : fix it or nix it?

Alternatives to economic globalization : a better world is possible / John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander

The end of poverty : economic possibilities of our time / Jeffrey D. Sachs

Globalization and its discontents / Joseph E. Stiglitz

Deglobalization : ideas for a new world economy / Walden Bello

A world without walls : freedom, development, free trade and global governance / Mike Moore

In defense of globalization / Jagdish Bhagwati.