PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What Is Global Studies?PART I: POLITICS and SOCIETIES1. Mary Kaldor: Five Meanings of Global Civil Society2. Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss: Framing Global Governance, Five Gaps3. Manfred B. Steger: Political Ideologies in the Age of Globalization4. Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Jeffrey S. Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter (Jay) Smith, and Rolando Vasquez: Globalization and the Emergence of World Social Forums5.

Hans Schattle: Global Media, Mobilization, and Revolution: The Arab SpringDiscussion Points and Guide to Further Readings and Recommended WebsitesPART II: ECONOMIES and TECHNOLOGIES6. Pietra Rivoli: How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts7. Valentine Moghadam: The Specter that Haunts the Global Economy: The Challenge of Global Feminism8. Dani Rodrik: Designing Capitalism 3.09. Manuel Castells: The Global Network Society10. Siva Vaidhyanathan: The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and Infrastructural ImperialismDiscussion Points and Guide to Further Readings and Recommended WebsitesPART III: CULTURES and HISTORIES11. William H.

McNeill: Globalization: Long Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?12. Nayan Chanda: Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses13. Richard Giulanotti and Roland Robertson: Culture: The Glocal Game, Cosmopolitanism and Americanization14. Lane Crothers: The American Global Cultural Brand15. Olivier Roy: The Religion MarketDiscussion Points and Guide to Further Readings and Recommended WebsitesPART IV: SPACES and ENVIROMENTS16. Mike Davis: The Urban Climacteric17. Jeb Brugmann: The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch: Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth18. Luis Cabrera: Mobile Global Citizens19.

Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley: An Overheated Planet20. Paul Gilding: The One-Degree WarDiscussion Points and Guide to Further Readings and Recommended WebsitesIndex.