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In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research.

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.

In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research.

The narrative of populism as a "rising tide" has enjoyed currency at least since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the success of the "Leave" campaign in the UK referendum on membership of the EU earlier in that year. And yet, on the eve of what proved to be President Trump's election defeat some four years later, the British journalist Nick Cohen felt able to muse "(w)e're endlessly told why populism works. Now see how it might fail" (...

This is an interdisciplinary examination of populism as a factor in global change, drawing on international politics, sociology, and global studies.

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.

In this new work, Axford seeks to contribute to the development of global theory, particularly where it engages with the contested idea of globality, a concept which musters as consciousness, condition, framework, even system.

Global Theory from Within and Without is a critical examination of the concept of globalization. There are in sociological theory many definitions of globalization. Sociological theory constructs a new theory of globalization starting from the structural changes of social systems at the beginning of the 21th century. The research subject is the ongoing connection of global studies and the research program of multiple modernities. The structura...

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Second edition published by Routledge 2002"--T.p. verso.

∗ A comprehensive interpretation of the impact of globalization. ∗ Provides an important re-evaluation of major theories of the world system, as well as its own original analysis which focuses on economic interdependence and the impact of modern communication systems.

This book explores the ways in which study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform current debates about globalization and thus afford greater understanding of emergent globalities.

`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axford's discussion of the changing nature of political practice and technologies of political communication in relation to wider discourse of "crisis" is insightful and well argued....This is a genuinely thought provoking and generally very ...

Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization. Barrie Axford expertly guides readers through the full range of perspectives on the topic, from international political economy to geography, global anthropology to cultural and communication studies. In so doing he draws out the common threads between competing theories, as well as pinpointing the problems that cha...

Theories of Globalization offers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization. Barrie Axford expertly guides readers through the full range of perspectives on the topic, from international political economy to geography, global anthropology to cultural and communication studies. In so doing he draws out the common threads between competing theories, as well as pinpointing the problems that cha...

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