Illustrations

FIGURES

1.1   Debating globalization

1.2   Modes of analysis

1.3   Normative spaces

1.4   Contentious politics: the remaking of globalization

9.1   Immigration to the United States, 1820–2001

22.1   The relationship between education spending and patents

22.2   Income inequality and prison population rate, OECD countries

27.1   Detailed conceptual framework for globalization and health designed by Woodward et al. (1999)

27.2   Projected deaths by major cause and World Bank income group, all ages, 2005

29.1   Historical trends in between-country inequality: 1820–2004

29.2   Inequality trends for selected high-income countries

29.3   Inequality trends in India and China

29.4   Inequality trends for selected East Asian and Latin American countries

TABLES

8.1   Paradigmatic change from a national perspective to a cosmopolitan social science

8.2   Sociology of social inequalities in the tension between the national and the cosmopolitan perspectives

14.1   Some ideal-types of TNC organization: basic characteristics

29.1   Economic measures in China by selected regions, 2003

29.2   Education and health measures in India by selected states, 1998–1999

BOXES

12.1   Friedmann’s ‘World Cities’, 1986 and 1995

12.2   Rankings of 23 of Friedmann’s 30 world cities (from highest to lowest ‘interconnectivity’), 1991

12.3   Recent empirically based estimates of the top world cities

27.1   Our Common Interest: Report for the Commission for Africa (2005)

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