Reading list
Richard A. Falk: The Declining World Order: America's Imperial Geopolitics, 2004. Routledge, paper. ISBN: --0-415-94692-1. pp. 3-103, 171-252.
Michael Lind: Made in Texas: George W. Bush & the Southern Takeover of American Politics, 2003. Basic Books, paper. ISBN: --0-465-04122-1. pp. 1-194.
David Held & Anthony McGrew: The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, 2003. Polity, 2nd revised edition. ISBN: --0745631355. Articles on pages 76-78, 82-9, 99-10, 136-14, 156-16, 181-190, 195-20, 202-211, 216-22, 259-273, 274-286, 287-300, 328-331.
Course Compendium (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika at the beginning of term):
- David Rieff and Michael Clough “Civil Society and the Future of the Nation-State: Two Views” The Nation February 22, 1999, pp. 11-18
- Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th -18th Century, vol. 3, The Perspective of the World (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), pp. 24-54
- Saskia Sassen, “Introduction: Whose City is it?”; “The State and the Global City,” from Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: The New Press, 1998), pp. ixx-xxxvi & 195-218
- “Ulrich Beck: The Cosmopolitan Turn,” in Nicholas Gane, ed. The Future of Social Theory (London: Continuum, 2004), pp. 143-166
- Gavin Kitching, “The Role of the Transnational Corporation”, & “The Ricardian Game”, in Seeking Social Justice through Globalization (University Park, Penn: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001), pp.33-48 & 255-277
- Arturo Fontaine Talvera “Trends toward Globalization in Chile” in Berger and Huntington, eds., Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 250-295
- John J. Mearsheim “Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century”, from The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), pp. 380-402, 528-533
- Edward W. Soja, “The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam & Los Angeles,” in Michael Peter smith, ed., After Modernism: Global restructuring and the Changing Boundaries of City Life (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1992), pp. 17-38
- Samuel Huntington, “The Clash of Civilizations” in America and the World (New York: Council of Foreign Relations, 2002) pp. 43-70.
- Peter L. Berger, “Four Faces of Global Culture”, The National Interest, Fall, 1997; reprinted at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi m2751/is n49/ai 20319595
Readings available online:
- Monbiot, “Governing Globalization” openDemocracy e-zine, November 29, 2001 (online)
- The Held-Hirst debate in openDemocracy.org
- Lipschutz, “The Fall of the UN Republic and America’s Reach for Imperium,” (online)