Globalization and Politics

Contents: Preface. 1. Governance and globalizing. 2. Global problems. 3. Political globalization. 4. The international system. 5. Industrialism and private property. 6. Interactions of industrialism and nationalism. 7. Globalization, states and the Third World Countries. 8. South Asia in a globalizing world. 9. The South Asian State in an age of globalization. 10. Globalization and trends of regionalism in South Asia. 11. Regionalism and the imperatives of globalization. 12. Globalization and regionalism. 13. Community, civilization, state, nation, region or the globe? 14. The WTO and the politics of global trade. 15. Governing global public goods in a multi-actor world : the rule of the United Nations. 16. Justifying the global covenant.

"Globalization is a buzzword. It refers to changes of fundamental importance. These charges have profound implications for politics as well.

Aim of this book is selection of important innovative and up to material on this vital subject of great significance. Special care has been exercised to include essays in accordance with the course contents of the Indian and Foreign Universities." (jacket)