Politics and Culture of Globalisation

Hans Löfgren is Director of the Master of Politics and Policy Program at Deakin University, Australia. He has published extensively on the politics and economics of pharmaceuticals, for example in New Political Science (2007), Australia New Zealand Health Policy (2007) and Social Science & Medicine (2004). Prakash Sarangi is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad. His publications include Liberal Theories of State: Contemporary Perspectives (1996) and Political Exchange and Public Policy: A Cross-National Analysis (1990).

• 1. Introduction: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Globalisation – Hans Löfgren and Prakash SarangiMaking sense of globalisation2. Justice, Globalisation and Diverse Conceptual Worlds – Michael Leahy 3. Ontology of Permanence and Change: A Critique of Globalisation – A. Raghuramaraju 4. Neo-liberal Hyperglobalism in Australian Political Thought – Geoffrey Stokes 5. Hyperglobalisation’s Casualty: The Numerical Small – Purushottama Bilimoria Governance and globalisation 6. Globalization and Indian Federalism: Re-assertion of States’ Rights – Harihar Bhattacharyya 7. Challenges of Globalisation in Urban Local Governance – Sudha Mohan 8. Understanding Community Governance and Rural Regeneration in a Globalised World – Kevin O’Toole 9. Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in South India: ‘Sun-rise’ Industrialisation or Global Cost-shifting of Dirty Goods Manufacturing – G.Vijay 10.India’s Drug Multinationals: Growth Strategies and Global Industry Dynamics – Hans Löfgren Experiencing globalisation 11. ‘The Good Australians’: Anglo-Indians, Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism – Glenn D’Cruz 12. Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance – Stan van Hooft 13. Late Marxism and Parliamentary Government: Indian Communism Today – Geoff Robinson Globalisation, Foreign Relations and Security14. Indo-Australian Relations in the Post-Cold War Period – Y. Yagama Reddy and Ken Boutin 15. Indo-Australian Relations: Beyond Indifference – Gary Smith 16. Terror, Power and Protest – Andrew Vandenberg 17. Globalisation, ‘Glocalisation’ and South Asian Insecurity – B. Ramesh Babu

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