Providing a unique, empirically based perspective on the past and future development of globalization as a long-term process emerging in different parts of the world, this book puts current changes in a historical context in a systematic fashion, unpacking the global political, economic, social, and cultural implications of this change. It traces the resemblance of past commercial networks with emerging digital networks and contrasts them with industrial production systems.
Thinking About Globalization: An Introduction * An Evolutionary Theory of Globalization * Drivers of Global Change: Leading Sectors of the Informational Network * Drivers of Leading Sector Change: The Agency and Organizational Level * Drivers of Leading Sector Change: Interstate Rivalry and the Systemic Level * The Continuation of Change of the Global Complex System: An Outlook on Its Future Development
