The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the success of From Modernization to Globalization, published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and development practitioners wishing to get up to speed...

"This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to...

Introduction : The end of geography and the beginning of conflict / B.N.Ghosh -- The contradictory dynamics of globalization / Phillip Anthony O'Hara -- Globalization, cultural conflicts and Islamic resurgence / Mustapha Kamal Pasha -- Globalization and the clash of civilisations / Halil M....