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Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field. * Updated annually * Offers clear and concise explanations of the key concepts of Globalization * Includes entries on concepts derived from across the social sciences, from sociology and anthropology to political science, economics, and human geography * Looks at the founding theories as well as the realities of globalization today * Covers the essential topics in the study of globalization, including agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods; coca-colonization, Empire; Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, Transnational Corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum and, Zapatistas * Includes a number of key documents listed as entries such as the Kyoto Protocol and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 5 Volumes www.globalizationencyclopedia.com |