Globalization and the Postcolonial World

Globalization and Postcolonial States

Globalization, Civilization and World Order

How are they related to each other? This chapter seeks to answer these questions. Answering the first is simple. Obviously, the current world order cannot be fully understood without taking ‚globalization‛ into consideration. The effects of Globalization reach every corner of the world in different scope and degree. Why is ‚civilization‛ important? It is important because civilization incorpora...

Globalization and Government Spending around the World

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1999 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta GA, September 1-5 1999. I would like to thanks seminar participants at Harvard University, the Juan March Institute, UCLA, and the Yale Law School for helpful comments. Special thanks to Adam Przeworski, Ronald Rogowski, Alastair Smith and George Tsebelis for pushing...

The Globalization of the World Systems

My responsibility for this workshop is to prepare a short paper on a substantive topic that invites (a) visualization by technical methods of mapping temporal evolution, and/or (b) time-series analysis. I propose to do this by showing the group some data which I have collected, presented and analyzed in fairly straightforward ways, but which seem to me to beg for more sophisticated methods than...

World informatization in conditions of international globalization: Factors of influence

The level of information today is decisive in the socio-economic development of the country. The purpose of the article is to identify the most influential factors in the process of developing informatization in the context of international globalization. The assessment of factors influencing world information is based on the following stages: forming incoming information about the state of wor...