Edward A. Kolodziej is Emeritus Research Professor of Political Science and Former Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

• Acknowledgements / List of Illustrations / Introduction / Part I: The Rise of a Global Society / 1. Globalization as the Rise of a Global Society / 2. Properties of the Global Society / 3. Toward a Theory of Global Governance: Pursuing Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy Imperatives / Part II: Critique of the Democratic Solutions to Global Governance / 4. The Global State and its Rivals / 5. The Market System I: The Disposition to Implode / 6. The Market System II: The Challenges of Inequality and Poverty / 7. Democratic Legitimacy Besieged / Part III: Strengthening the Democratic Solution to OWL Imperatives / 8. From Coalition to Concert of Democratic States and Peoples / A Brief Note on Method / Bibliography / Index

Globalization has extended conflicts, contradictions, and benefits from the nation-state to global spaces and back again. This multilevel process has also introduced new challenges and benefits to the local and the global. The central concern of this work is how globalization affects local and global human existence and how the benefits of order, welfare, and legitimacy (OWL) in political, social, and economic domains can be fortified. The book endorses an economically and politically liberal position in which liberal capitalism and democratic rule of law are to be reinforced locally and more systematically extended globally. To accomplish this, a “concert of states” is recommended. The approach is analytical rather than normative, and the book stakes out its claims clearly and thoroughly. But by pragmatically focusing primarily on OWL, the questions of justice are minimized. Globalization is more than a practical matter of governance—it is also a normative force with questionably moral material effects. Addressing the congenital violence many argue is built into the modern, liberal democratic order and is often at the root of much resistance to Westernized globalization may be hindered by such an approach. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.