Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization

by David Singh Grewal

Overview

Drawing on several centuries of political and social thought, this remarkable and ambitious book shows how globalization works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300144420
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	06/06/2008
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	760
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.51(d)

About the Author

David Singh Grewal is a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Defining Network Power 17

2 The Power of Sociability 44

3 English and Gold 70

4 Power and Choice in Networks 106

5 Evaluating Network Power 141

6 Countering Network Power 166

7 Network Power in Technology 193

8 Global Trade and Network Power 225

9 Global Neoliberalism 247

10 Network Power and Cultural Convergence 266

Conclusion 292

Notes 297

Bibliography 377

Index 395