The Encyclopedia of Globalization provides a thorough understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of globalization as well as the various historical and analytical interpretations. Consisting of over 400 entries, coverage includes key cultural, ecological, economic, geographical, historical, political, psychological and social aspects of globalization. Entries in the Encyclopedia vary in length from 500 to 3500 words, depending on the scope of the topic and its relative prominence in studies and politics of globalization. All entries provide bibliographical references for further reading and research. From the advances in nanotechnology to the controversies surrounding humanitarian intervention, the Encyclopedia of Globalization is a key inter-disciplinary resource to all aspects of globalization. Compiled by a cross-disciplinary editorial team of leading academics on the subject this essential reference work will appeal to students, scholars, researchers, and the general reader interested in the many facets of globalization.
Accounting Acid Rain African Religions African Union African Caribbean and Pacific Countries Agenda 21 Agribusiness Aid Aids Air Travel Alterity Alternative Trade Schemes Americanization Anarchism Animal Rights Movement Antarctica Treaty Anti-Americanism Anti-Globalization Movements Arms Trade Asia Crisis Asia Europe Meetings Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Association of South East Asian Nations Asylum Seekers Auto Industry Bank for International Settlements Banking Biological Diversity Biological Weapons Biotechnology Borders Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy Brain Drain Bretton Woods System Buddhism Cable Television Capital Adequacy Capital Controls Capital Flight Capitalism Cartels Center-Periphery Chemical Weapons Child Labor Children Christian Orthodoxy Christianity Civil Society Civilization, Standard of Civilizations Class Climate Change Club of Rome Cold War Collective Security Commodification Commodity Agreements Commodity Chains Common Markets Commonwealth Communism Communitarianism Community Comparative Analysis Comparative Literature Competition Policy Confucianism Connectivity Consciousness Consumer Movements Consumption Corporate Alliances Corporate Social Responsibility Cosmopolitan Democracy Cosmopolitanism Credit Cards Credit-Rating Agencies Crime Crimes Against Humanity Criminal Law Cuisine Cultural Defense Cultural Globalization Cultural Imperialism Cultural Property Cultural Protection Cultural Relativism Currency Transactions Tax Dance De-Globalization Debt Crises Decolonization Deforestation Democracy Deregulation Derivatives Desertification Deterritorialization Diasporas Diasporic Writing Diffusion Digital Divide Digitality Disease Dollar Standard Double Movement Drug Trafficking E-Commerce E-Governance Earth Summit Ecocriticism Ecofeminism Ecojustice Ecological Modernization Economic Globalization Ecumenical Movement Education Empires Employment End-of-History Thesis Enlightenment Environmental Law Environmental Movements Esperanto Ethnicity Ethnography Euro Eurocentrism Eurocurrency European Union Export Processing Zones Fashion Feminism Feminization of Poverty Financial Stability forum Fisheries Food and Agriculture Organization Food Security Fordism/Post-fordism Foreign Direct Investment Foreign Exchange Markets Foundations Free Trade Free Trade Area of The Americas Free Trade Zones Gaia Hypothesis Gender General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade General Agreement on Trade in Services Genetically Modified Food Geneva Conventions Genocide Global Advertising Global Apartheid Global Assembly Line Global Branding Global Care Chains Global Cities Global Citizenship Global Commons Global Communications Global Competition Global Complexity Global Courts Global Division of Labor Global Ecumene Global Elites Global Ethics Global Governance Global History Global News Channels Global Public Goods Global Public Policy Global Sourcing Global Taxes Global Television Channels Global Village Globalism Globality Globalization Glocalization Gold Standard Group of Eight Group of Seventy-Seven Group of Thirty Health Hedge Fund Hegemony Heritage Hinduism Historiography Homogenization Human Rights Human Rights Movements Human Trafficking Humanitarian Action Humanitarian Intervention Humanity Hybridity Imperialism Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous Peoples Individualism Industrial Revolution Inequality Information Age Information Technology Insurance Intellectual Property Intelsat International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes International Criminal Court International Exhibitions International Labour Organization International Law International Monetary Fund International Organization of Securities Commissions International Relations International Society International Telecommunication Union Internationalism Internet Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Islam Journalism Judaism Justice Labor Movements Labor Standards Land Mines Language Late Capitalism Law Firms Law of Outer Space Law of the Sea League of Arab States League of Nations Liberalism Liberalization Liberation Theology Localism Management Maps Marine Pollution Market Marxism McDonaldization Media Diplomacy Mercenaries Mercosur Mergers and Acquisitions Micro-Credit Schemes Migrant Labor Migration Military Globalization Millennium Development Goals Mining Industry Missiles Missionaries Mobile Telephones Modernity Money Money Laundering Mono-Culture MTV Multiculturality Multilateral Agreement on Investment Multilateral Development Banks Multilateralism Museums Music Industry Nanotechnology Nation-State National Identity Natural Resource Depletion Neo-Gramscianism Neoliberalism Networks New International Economic Order New Medievalism New World Information and Communications Order New World Order News Agencies Nomads Nongovernmental Organizations North American Free Trade Agreement North Atlantic Treaty Organization North-South Relations Nuclear Weapons Occidentalism offshore Arrangements Oil Industry Olympic Games Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Organization of American States Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Orientalism Ozone Depletion Pan-Africanism Paris Club Passport Peace Peace Building Peace Keeping Peace Movements Peasant Movements Persistent Organic Pollutants Pesticides Pharmaceutical Industry Pilgrimage Policing Pollution Havens Population Postal Services Postcolonialism Postmodernism Postmodernity Poverty Privatization Public Sphere Race Radio Rationalization Reflexive Modernization Refugees Regionalism Religion Religious Movements New Religious Revivalism Resources Law Retail Industry Revolution Risk Society Roman Catholic Church Sanctions Satellites Science Self-Identity Sex Tourism Sexual Minorities Slave Trade Socialism South Asian Agreement on Regional Cooperation Southern African Development Community Sovereignty Space Special Drawing Rights Spirituality Sports Standardization Statistics Stock Markets Structural Adjustment Programs Subaltern Movements Subsidiarity Substate Governance Sustainability Taxation Technology Telecommunications Telegraph Telephone Television Territoriality Terrorism Think Tanks Time Tobacco Torture Tourism Toxics Trade Trade and Environment Trade Protectionism Trade Routes Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights Trade-Related Investment Measures Trading Companies Tradition Transfer Pricing Transgovernmental Relations Translation Transnational Corporations Transnationality Transparency Transportation Underground Economy Unequal Exchange United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations Environment Program United Nations Organization Universal Jurisdiction Universalism Urbanization Utopianism Video Technology Virtual Reality Voyages of Discovery Washington Consensus Water Weblog Welfare State Westernization Women Womens Movements World Bank World Cinema World Council of Churches World Economic forum World Environment Organization World Health Organization World Heritage Convention World Intellectual Property Organization World Language System World Literature World Music World Order World Polity Theory World Social forum World Society Theory World Tourism Organization World Trade Organization World Wars World Wide Web World-System Theory Youth Culture