Towards a systematic dialectic of globalization

Tony Smith

pp. 179-198

in: Bertell Ollman, Tony Smith (eds), Dialectics for the new century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

A great number of theorists have discussed from a great variety of perspectives a great number of issues associated with "globalization".¹ Some contributions to these debates share sufficient "family resemblances' to justify speaking of a shared position, defined by a specific model of globalization purporting to describe the main features of the contemporary global order and a set of claims regarding this model, especially normative claims.