Includes bibliographical references and index The globalization of markets / Theodore Levitt -- Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy / Arjun Appadurai -- The globalization of modernity / Anthony Giddens -- Mapping the global condition / Roland Robertson -- Globalization: a necessary myth? / Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson -- Preface to Empire / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- The global city model / Saskia Sassen -- The globalization of sexual identities / Dennis Altman -- Globalization: an ascendant paradigm? / James H. Mittelman -- The promise of global institutions / Joseph Stiglitz -- Five meanings of global civil society / Mary Kaldor -- Al Qaeda and the new terrorists / Olivier Roy -- From market globalism to imperial globalism: ideology and American power after 9/11 / Manfred B. Steger -- The world as a polder: What does it all mean to us today? / Jared Diamond -- The spectre that haunts the global economy?: the challenge of global feminism / Valentine Moghadam -- Arguing globalizations: propositions towards an investigation of global formation / Paul James -- The urban climacteric / Mike Davis -- The new public sphere: global civil society, communication networks, and global governance / Manuel Castells -- Globalization and the emergence of the world social forums / Jackie Smith and Marina Karides et al -- Globalization: long term process or new era in human affairs? / William H. McNeill