This five-volume Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization and is the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field.
_ Offers clear and concise explanations of the key concepts of Globalization
_ Arranged in A to Z format over five volumes
_ Includes entries on concepts derived from across the social sciences, from sociology and anthropology to political science, economics, and human geography
_ Looks at the founding theories as well as the realities of globalization today
_ Covers the essential topics in the study of globalization, including agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods; coca-colonization, Empire; Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, Transnational Corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum and, Zapatistas
_ Includes a number of key documentslisted as entries such asthe Kyoto Protocol and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
