Table of Contents

Part 1. Globalization, international relations and political geography 1.  Political geography and globalization as we enter the twenty-first century
2. Globalization and the emerging economies: China and India
Part 2. North-South debates
3. Globalization, geography and environmental security
4. Rethinking the geopolitics of the global: the case of North-South relations
5. Globalizing forces and natural disasters
6. Social movements and global politics
7. Development hegemonies and local outcomes Part 3. Gender, power and global processes 8. Shifting grounds, remapping strategies and triad analytics 9. Gender inequalities and feminist politics in a global perspective 10. The places of women in trading places revisited 11. International sex and service Part 4. Politics and economics of movement and space 12. Crisis? What crisis? The politcs of migration regulation in the era of globalization 13. Globalization, migration and citizenship 14. What next for the state? 15. The global capcacity of a world city 16. Globalization and geopolitical world orders Part 5. Knowledge and technologies 17. Power, knowledge and governance 18. Globalization and the Internet 19. The multimedia industry: networks and regional development in a globalized economy 20. Cyber-states and the 'sovereignty' of virtual communities 21. The soft-shell of territoriality in the nuclear era

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This fully revised textbook focuses on the major topics of globalization.

About the Author

Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Gender and Migration (Social Policy) at Middlesex University. Gillian Youngs, University of Leicester (Eds.)