The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations-including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications.

I. Global Studies The emergence of a new academic field 1. What is Global Studies? Manfred B. Steger 2. The Evolution of Global Studies Mark Juergensmeyer 3. Antecedents of the Field Roland Robertson 4. Major Thinkers in Global Studies Paul James II. Global Thinking Analytical approaches and conceptual considerations 5. Researching the Localizations of the Global Saskia Sassen 6. Glocalization Habibul Khondker 7. Global History Dominic Sachsenmaier 8. Transdisciplinarity James Mittelman and Daniel Esser 9. Problem Orientation Paul Battersby 10. Worldview Analysis Mona Kanwal Sheikh 11. Anthropocene Thesis Simon Dalby 12. Global Epistemology Mohammed Bamyeh 13. Global Studies vs. International Studies Sara Curran 14. Inequality from the Perspective of the Global South Manoranjan Mohanty 15. Feminist Perspectives, Critiques and Contributions Valentine Moghadam 16. Decolonizing Global Studies Eve Darian Smith III. Global Concerns Issues and themes at the core of global research and teaching 17. Financialization Ravi Roy and Thomas Willett 18. Labor Rich Appelbaum 19. Transnational Capitalist Class William I. Robinson and Jeb Sprague-Silgado 20. The Impact of Global Financial Crises Walden Bello 21. Trafficking Paul Amar 22. Migration Sucheng Chan 23. War and Militarization Jairus Grove 24. Security: The Disconnect with Globalization Monica Duffy Toft and Allard Duursma 25. Human Rights Michael Forman 26. Democracy Jan Aart Scholte 27. Impoverishment in the Anthropocene Era Upendra Baxi 28. Religious Globalisms Jeffrey Haynes 29. Art and the Process of Globalization Linda Williams 30. Urbanization Peter Taylor 31. Multiculturalism Nandita Sharma 32. The Female Body in Global Media Tuija Parikka 33. Digital connectivity Tanya Lewis 34. Media Industry Jack Lule 35. Global Sports Richard Giulianotti 36. Global Food Politics Hilal Elver 37. Climate change Clive Hamilton 38. Pandemics Kathryn H. Jacobsen 39. Environmental Critique Patrick Bond IV. Global Citizenship Ideas and institutions for an emerging global world 40. Civil Society Karen Buckley 41. Global Citizenship Hans Schattle 42. Global Movements Donatella della Porta 43. Humanitarian Organizations Katherine Marshall 44. Global Law Richard Falk 45. Global Governance Helmut Anheier

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Selling point: First single volume to canvas all aspects of the emerging field of global studies, from theoretical approaches to the major issues and themes Selling point: Focuses on the field of global studies rather than the phenomenon of globalization itself, though the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped Selling point: Features 45 chapters from leading scholars in the field

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on global culture, with emphasis on the global rise of religious violence and the challenge to the secular state. He has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including and the widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2003), and God in the Tumult of the Global Square, co-authored with Dinah Griego and John Soboslai (University of California Press, 2015). He also has edited The Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006). Manfred Steger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and Honorary Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and is the author or editor of over twenty books on globalization, global history, and the history of political ideas, including: The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (Sage, 2013). Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her newest book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2014). Victor Faessel, managing editor of the handbook, is Associate Director of the Mellichamp Initiative on 21st Century Global Dynamics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Selling point: First single volume to canvas all aspects of the emerging field of global studies, from theoretical approaches to the major issues and themes Selling point: Focuses on the field of global studies rather than the phenomenon of globalization itself, though the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped Selling point: Features 45 chapters from leading scholars in the field