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Further reading
General studies of the economic dimension of globalization include David Held
et al., Global Transformations (1999), and The Global Transformations Reader
(2nd edn 2003), and Jan Aart Scholte, Globalization (2000 – with a 2nd edn
forthcoming in 2005). Earlier valuable works from a variety of positions
include; Anthony McGrew et al., Global Politics: Globalization and the Nation
State (1992); Christopher Chase-Dunn, Global Formation: Structures of the
World Economy (1989); P. Dicken, Global Shift: The Internationalization of
Economic Activity (2004); Paul Kennedy, Preparing for the Twenty-first
Century (1993); Kenichi Ohmae, The Borderless World (1990) and Michael
Veseth, Selling Globalization: The Myth of the Global Economy (1998). Paul
Hirst and Grahame Thompson, Globalization in Question: The International
Economy and the Possibilities of Governance (1999) is a thoroughly researched
and compellingly argued rebuttal of, at least, extreme versions of the thesis;
a new edition is due in 2005. The relationship between liberalism and globalization
is explored in the Millennium special issue, ‘The Globalization of Liberalism’
(1995). On the general debate on globalization, two characteristic papers by the
late Susan Strange cover a great deal of the debate – the review essay ‘Globaloney’
(1998a) expresses one point of view, but the posthumous ‘The Westfailure
System’ (1999) shows the reverse of the medal.
On globalization as a social and cultural phenomenon, there is a vast amount
of literature. Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and
Culture, 3 vols (1996/7), is a monumental study, with Martin Albrow,
The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity (1996), equally ambitious,

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if on a smaller canvas. Zygmund Bauman, Globalization: The Human
Consequences (1998), Ulrich Beck, World Risk Society (1999), Saskia Sassen,
Globalization and its Discontents (1998) and Leslie Sklair, The Sociology of
the Global System (1995), offer further sociological perspectives. Anthony
Giddens’ Reith Lecture, The Runaway World (1999), is aimed at a wider 
non-academic market, but is highly thought-provoking nonetheless. John
Tomlinson,  Globalization and Culture (1999), pulls together a great deal of
material on this subject.
From within the world of IR theory, there have been a number of excellent
contributions from different perspectives. Without relying on the term global-
ization, J. N. Rosenau, Along the Domestic–Foreign Frontier: Exploring
Governance in a Turbulent World (1997), is a valuable contribution to this lit-
erature. Richard Falk’s Predatory Globalization: A Critique (1999) is a useful
corrective to the overenthusiasm of hyperglobalizers from the doyen of World
Order Modelling; Ian Clark’s Globalization and International Relations
Theory (1999) represents the classical tradition at its best, and Martin Shaw
(ed.) Politics and Globalization: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency (1999) is a very
useful collection representing what may come to be known as the ‘Sussex
School’. It should be stressed that these references are only a small selection of
the available material; David Held et al. (2003) and Jan Aart Scholte (2000)
have excellent bibliographies.
The lack of material on IR and the new technologies is (still) striking. For
a broadly positive account of the future see Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and