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The Impact of Globalization on the United States
Beverly Crawford, Michelle Bertho, and Edward A. Fogarty, editors
ISBN: 0-275-99181-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99181-4
980 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $300.00 (UK Sterling Price: £206.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • "... [T]he areas explored are the impacts on culture and society, law and government, and business and economics. Each volume features 10-12 essays analyzing changes brought about by globalization over the last few years. The essays are well written and informative, and discuss issues not usually addressed by works on globalization. Each volume provides abbreviations, a table of contents, and an index that allow the user to locate information very easily… The unique perspectives of these essays will be very useful for researchers interested in globalization. Recommended- Lower- level undergraduates through faculty/ researchers; general readers."
    —CHOICE
    3/1/2009
Description: Over the past decade, a virtual cottage industry has arisen to produce books and articles describing the nature, origins, and impact of globalization. Largely and surprisingly absent from this literature, however, has been extensive discussion of how globalization is affecting the United States itself. Indeed, it is rarely even acknowledged that while the United States may be providing a crucial impetus to globalization, the process of globalization — once set in motion — has become a force unto itself. Thus globalization has its own logic and demands that are having a profound impact within the United States, often in ways that are unanticipated.

This set offers the first in-depth, systematic effort at assessing the United States not as a globalizing force but as a nation being transformed by globalization. Among the topics studied are globalization in the form of intensified international linkages; globalization as a universalizing and/or Westernizing force; globalization in the form of liberalized flows of trade, capital, and labor; and globalization as a force for the creation of transnational and superterritorial entities and allegiances. These volumes examine how each of these facets of globalization affects American government, law, business, economy, society, and culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Globalizations Impact on American Culture and Society: An Overview Michelle Bertho
    I. Fragmentation and Transformation of American Society
    Chapter 1
    Capitalisms Churn and Cultural Conflict: How Globalization Has Fractured American Society and Why It Will Be Difficult to Put the Pieces Back Together
    Ronnie Lipschutz
    Chapter 2
    Transnational Migrant Networks, Citizenship Rights, and the Future of the Nation-State: The Case of Latin American Migration to the United States
    James Cohen
    Chapter 3
    From Mother Africa to Blacks with Accents: Diaspora and African American Studies in the United States
    Tyler Stovall
    Chapter 4
    Racial Politics and Racial Theory in the Twenty-First-Century United States
    Howard Winant
    II. Globalization and Fears
    Chapter 5
    Globalization, Race, and the Politics of Fear in the United States
    Andrew Barlow
    Chapter 6
    Un-American Gothic: The Fear of Globalization in Popular Culture
    Paul Cantor
    Chapter 7
    Cultural Globalization and American Culture: The Availability of Foreign Cultural Goods in the United States
    Diana Crane and Susanne Janssen
    III. Globalization as a Source of Creativity and Innovation in Civil Society
    Chapter 8
    Art on the Borderline
    Tirza True Latimer
    Chapter 9
    True Things That Bind Us: Globalization, U.S. Language Pluralism, and Gay Mens English
    William Leap
    Chapter 10
    The Globalization of U.S. Sports: From the Pros to the Playgrounds
    Tim Wendel
    Chapter 11
    Retaining Faith in the Land of the Free
    Sara Heitler Bamberger
    About the Editor and Contributors
    Preface
    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Globalizations Impact on American Government and Law: An Overview
    Beverly Crawford
    I. The Impact of Ungoverned Globalization
    Chapter 1
    Globalization from the Ground Up: A Domestic Perspective
    Alfred C. Aman, Jr.
    Chapter 2
    In the Shadow of Globalization: Changing Firm-Level and Shifting Employment Risks in the United States
    Katherine V.W. Stone
    Chapter 3
    Regulating from Nowhere: Domestic Environmental Law and the Nation-State Subject
    Douglas A. Kysar and Ya-Wei Li
    Chapter 4
    Globalization through Digitization
    Anupam Chander
    II. The Impact of Global Public Governance
    Chapter 5
    Disassembling the Assembly: Congress and the Legislative Gap in Global Governance
    Edward A. Fogarty
    Chapter 6
    Globalization, Delegation, and the U.S. Constitution
    Julian G. Ku and John C. Yoo
    Chapter 7
    Globalization as Constitutional Counterrevolution
    Jay Varellas
    III. The Impact of Private Governance and Public-Private
    Partnerships
    Chapter 8
    Making the World Safe for Standard Setting
    Philip J. Weiser
    Chapter 9
    Global Terror, Private Infrastructure, and Domestic Governance
    Kenneth A. Bamberger
    IV. The Impact of Unilateral Governance
    Chapter 10
    Globalization and Terrorism: The Effects on U.S. Society
    Beau Grosscup
    V. Globalization and American Sovereignty
    Chapter 11
    Arguing over Sovereignty: Globalization and the Structure of Political Conflict in the United States
    Edward S. Cohen
    Chapter 12
    Globalization and Western Political Culture
    Jack Citrin
    About the Editor and Contributors
    Preface
    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Globalization Comes Home: The U.S. Economy and Business
    Beverly Crawford and Edward A. Fogarty
    Part I Employment and Competitiveness
    Chapter 1
    The Myth of the Second Generation: How Are the Children of Immigrants Really Faring?
    Anas Loizillon
    Chapter 2
    Foreign Banking in the United States: An Overview from Large Banks to Underground Banking
    Benton E. Gup
    Chapter 3
    Globalization, Off-shoring, and Economic Convergence: A Survey
    Dwight M. Jaffee
    Chapter 4
    Globalization of Services and White-Collar Work: Implications for Firms, Employment, and Wages in California
    Cynthia A. Kroll
    Chapter 5
    Globalization of U.S. Capital and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy, State, and Society
    Berch Berberoglu
    Chapter 6
    Globalization Complements Business Activity in the United States
    Daniel J. Meckstroth
    Chapter 7
    Globalizations Impact on High-Tech Industries in the United States
    Jeffrey A. Hart
    Part II The Socioeconomic Bargain
    Chapter 8
    From Ford to Gates: How Globalization Is Transforming Patterns of Stratification in the United States
    Gary Hytrek
    Chapter 9
    Globalization and Worker Displacement: Is There Life after Converse?
    Michael D. Schulman, Leslie Hossfeld, Tricia McTague, Donnie Charleston, and Kevin Stainback
    Chapter 10
    External Pressures, Internal Tensions: Global Business, Social Contracts, and the Reshaping of U.S. Work
    Barbara Parker
    About the Editors and Contributors
About the Author: Beverly Crawford is Associate Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written extensively on topics such as ethnic conflict, American foreign policy, European politics, German foreign policy, technology transfer policy, and post-communist transitions. She is also the author of Economic Vulnerability in International Relations and German Power and Foreign Policy. She teaches International Political Economy and American Foreign Policy in International and Area Studies at the University of California Berkeley.

Michelle Bertho is Program Coordinator at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She taught The Enlargement of the European Union in International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and previously at San Francisco State University. Her current research is on private funding and development. Before joining the academic world, Bertho was an international consultant and worked extensively in Europe, the United States, and Africa.

Edward A. Fogarty is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and published work focuses on global governance and nonstate actors, international trade, and the European Union. He has taught courses at the University of California, Berkeley on the European Union, U.S. foreign policy, and international institutions.
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