Globalization and Violence

Paul James is Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT in Australia, an editor of Arena Journal, and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. He has received a number of awards including the Japan-Australia Foundation Fellowship, an Australian Research Council Fellowship, and the Crisp Medal by the Australasian Political Studies Association for the best book in the field of political studies. He is author/editor of many books including, Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community (Sage Publications, 1996). His latest books are Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism (Pluto, 2005), and Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In (Sage Publications, 2006). His interests are threefold: first, globalism, nationalism and localism, including the changing nature of the nation-state and the effects of an emergent level of global integration; second, social theory with a concentration on theories of culture, community and social formation; and third, contemporary politics and society with an emphasis on debates over technology and social change.WithJohn Tulloch is Professor of Sociology at Brunel University, UK. His research and publications have ranged from film and television studies and theatre through literary theory to history and sociology. His work in film and television theory has shifted from historical analysis to more current production/audience analyses of popular television, such as Australian soap opera and British TV science fiction. Notable influences on his work have been Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall and more recently Ulrick Beck.Peter Mandaville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director of Mason′s Center for Global Studies. He has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles, contributed to publications such as the International Herald Tribune and The New Republic, and consulted extensively for media, government and non-profit agencies. Much of his recent work has focused on the comparative study of religious authority and social movements in the Muslim world. His current research includes projects on Muslim leadership in the West and the relationship between globalization and development. Imre Szemán is Senator William McMaster Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. He is the founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). His main areas of research are globalization, visual cultural studies, contemporary popular culture and social and cultural theory. He has published more than fifty articles and book chapters on a range of topics.Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Academic Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT University. He is also Program Leader of ′Globalization and Culture′, in the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University. He has delivered many lectures on globalization, ideology, and nonviolence in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. He serves on several editorial boards of academic journals as well as on the advisory boards of several globalization research centers around the world.

• VOLUME ONE: GLOBALIZING EMPIRES: OLD AND NEWSECTION ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: TRADITIONAL EMPIRES, EAST AND WESTThe Global Animus - Roland Robertson and David InglisIn the Tracks of World ConsciousnessUnsettling Geographical Horizons - Rhys Jones and Richard PhillipsExploring Premodern and Non-European ImperialismRevolt of Islam, 1700-1993 - Nikki R KeddieComparative Considerations and Relations to ImperialismSECTION TWO: MODERN GLOBALIZING EMPIRES: FROM NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENTThe Imperialism of Free Trade - J Gallagher and R RobinsonThe Imperial Peace - Tarak Barkawi and Mark LaffeyDemocracy, Force and GlobalizationDreams of Global Hegemony and the Technology of War - Jerry HarrisCulture, US Imperialism and Globalization - John Carlos RoweSECTION THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND EMPIRE AFTER SEPTEMBER 11The Post-September 11 Debate over Empire, Globalization and Fragmentation - Walter LaFeber"A Parallel Globalization of Terror" - Mikkel Vedby Rassmussen9-11, Security and GlobalizationGlobalization and the Unchosen - Tom NairnLeaving America behindImperial Headaches - Michael C HudsonManaging Unruly Regions in an Age of GlobalizationSECTION FOUR: DEBATING ′EMPIRE′Empire - Michael Hardt and Antonio NegriWorld OrderGlobalization, the Pudding and the Question of Power - Sebastian OlmaVirgilian Visions - Gopal BalakrishnanA Review of EmpireAn American Empire - Tim WatsonMake for the Boondocks - Tom NairnSECTION FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONSNeo-Liberal Empire - Jan Nederveen Pieterse′Network Power and Globalization′, Ethics and International Affairs, vol. 17, no. 2, 2003, pp. 89-98. Carnegie Council. - David Singh GrewalPost-Dependency - Paul JamesThe Third World in an Era of Globalism and Late CapitalismVOLUME TWO: COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL GLOBALIZATIONSSECTION ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: COLONIZATION AND AFTERThe Future Results of British Rule in India - Karl MarxGlobal Africa - Ali A MazruiFrom Abolitionists to ReparationistsWhat Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian′s Perspective - Frederick CooperSECTION TWO: NARRATIVES OF COLONIALISM: EXPRESSIONS OF PAIN′Draupi′(including her translation of the story by Mahasweta Devi) - Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakThe Song of Ourselves - Chinua AchebeRace, Empire and the Historians - Christopher FyfeBringing Them Home - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity CommissionNational Enquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their FamiliesSECTION THREE: NARRATIVES OF POST-COLONIALISM: ANALYSES OF VIOLENCEDead Certainty - Arjun AppaduraiEthnic Violence in the Era of GlobalizationAt the Edge of the World - Achille MbembeBoundaries, Territoriality and Sovereignty in AfricaTerror as Usual - Michael TaussigWalter Benjamin′s Theory of History as a State of SeigeIn Defense of the Fragment - Gyanendra PandeyWriting about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India TodayGlobalization, Culture and War - Tarak BarkawiOn the Popular Mediation of ′Small Wars′SECTION FOUR: DEBATING THE CLASH OF TRADITIONALISM AND MODERNISMGlobalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning - Peter GeschiereWitchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East AsiaBeing in the World - Jonathan FriedmanGlobalization and LocalizationHistories Forgotten Doubles - Ashis NandyEthnography on an Awkward Scale - Jean Comaroff and John ComaroffPost-Colonial Anthropology and the Violence of AbstractionSECTION FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONSPost-Colonialism and Globalization - Simon DuringTowards a Historicization of Their Inter-RelationPost-Colonial Questions for Global Times - David SlaterGlobalization and the Claims of Post-Coloniality - Simon GikandiThe Criticism of Culture and the Culture of Criticism - Revanthi KrishnaswamyAt the Intersection of Post-Colonialism and Globalization TheoryVOLUME THREE: GLOBALIZING WAR AND INTERVENTIONSECTION ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: FROM INTERSTATE TO GLOBALIZING WARSUnderstanding Global War - George Modelski and Patrick M MorganConnection and Constitution - Tarak BarkawiLocating War and Culture in Globalization StudiesWars of the Globalization Era - Zygmunt BaumanGlobalization and the Study of International Security - Victor D ChaSECTION TWO: THE WAR ON TERROR AS A GLOBAL CONFLICTOn Global Terror - John HinksonSeptember 11 One Year onGlobalicities - Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakTerror and Its ConsequencesThe Silence of Words - Ulrich BeckOn Terror and WarPerpetual War within the State of Exception - Simon CooperBehind the Curve - Audrey Kurth CroninGlobalization and International TerrorismSECTION THREE: DEBATING HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONGlobal Security and Military Intervention - Gwyn PrinsPeacekeeping and the Constraints of Global Culture - Roland ParisThe Globalization of Responses to Conflict and the Peace-Building Consensus - Oliver P RichmondThe Transformation of United Nations Peace-Keeping in the 1990s - Peter Viggo JakobsenAdding Globalization to the Conventional ′End of the Cold War Explanation′War, Globalization and Reproduction - Silvia FedericiIntervention and State Failure - Michael IgnatieffSECTION FOUR: CRITICAL PROJECTIONSViolence and the Systematic Pattern of Declining Global Hegemony - Jonathan FriedmanGlobalization, Power and Society - Sean KayGlobalization, Democratization and the Prospects for Civil War in the New Millennium - T David MasonVOLUME FOUR: TRANSNATIONAL CONFLICTSECTION ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS′Archaic′ and ′Modern′ Globalization in the Eurasian and African Arena - C A BaylyGlobal Migration, 1846-1940 - Adam McKeonTransnational Relations and World Politics - Joseph S Nye and Robert O KeohaneA ConclusionSECTION TWO: REFUGEES, SLAVES AND REGIMES OF GLOBAL DISPLACEMENTExpendable People - Kevin BalesSlavery in the Age of GlobalizationBad Neighbours, Bad Neighbourhood - Myron WeinerAn Enqury into the Causes of Refugee FlowsMilitary Responses to Refugee Disaster - Barry R PosenRefugees and the Global Politics of Asylum - Jeff CrispNews from Nowhere - Liisa H. MalkkiMass Displacement and Globalized "Problems of Organization"Globalization and Migration - Stephen CastlesSome Pressing ContradictionsSECTION THREE: DIASPORAS AND TRANSNATIONAL VIOLENCEDiasporas - James CliffordDiaspora Politics - Charles King and Neil J MelvinEthnonationalism and the Global ′Modernizing′ Project - Asafa JalataVirtual War - Rowena RobinsonThe Internet as the New Site for Global Religious ConflictSECTION FOUR: DEBATING THE SOURCES OF INSECURITYNationalism and Globalization - Mary KaldorInternational Terrorism and the World System - Albert J Bergenson and Omar LizardoTrouble in Paradise - Jean-Germain GrosCrime and Collapsed States in the Age of GlobalizationPART FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONSTransnationalism, Socio-Political Disorder and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony - Jonathan FriedmanRelationg Global Tensions - Paul JamesModern Tribalism and Postmodern NationalismCosmopolitanism and Violence - Gerard DelantyThe Limits of Global Civil Society