In the new edition, Steger (politics and government, Illinois State U.) updates and expands his arguments in light of the political and social changes brought a... » 

In the new edition, Steger (politics and government, Illinois State U.) updates and expands his arguments in light of the political and social changes brought about by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He presents globalization as not merely a set of material processes anchored in economics and technology, but a system of ideas circulating in the public «