Manfred Steger

The Rise of the Global Imaginary

Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A tour de force examination of the contemporary ideological landscape by one of the world's leading analysts of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780199286942
• ISBN-10: 0199286949
• Artikelnr.: 26573823

Autorenporträt

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Academic Director of the Globalism Institute at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. His academic fields of expertise include global studies, political and social theory, peace studies, and international politics. He has served as consultant on globalization for the US State Department and he has been an adviser for the 2005 US PBS television series, "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism." He has presented dozens of invited lectures and keynote addresses on globalization in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. His most recent publications include Globalism: Market Ideology Meets Terrorism, 2nd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005; 1st ed. 2002); Judging Nonviolence: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists (Routledge, 2003); Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003).