Globalization and Civilizations challenges established assumptions about thenature of civilizations and the supposed inevitability of the conflict betweenthe Is... » 

Globalization and Civilizations challenges established assumptions about thenature of civilizations and the supposed inevitability of the conflict betweenthe Islamic and Western worlds. Uniquely this edited book criticallyinterrogates the concept of civilization by asking whether it is still validin the globalized world economy of the twentyfirst century. The first half ofthe book provides an historical and theoretical context to understand the ideaof civilization in political science and demonstrates how the various socialeconomic political and cultural processes of globalization have radicallyaltered perceptions of civilization. The second half of the book looksparticularly at nonWestern examples of the interaction between globalizationand civilization and includes case studies on the Arab world Islam ChinaIndia and Europe «