Globalization has become the cliche of our times. The virus of neo-liberal globalization has struck almost everybody … analyses several contemporary debates around globalization. With the help of case studies and statistical data, it debunks …

As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to … the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration. This volume collects eleven papers … doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can be measured in terms of …