Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. In a critical introduction, Friedman evaluates how transnational capital represents a truly global force, but geographical decentralization of accumulation still leads to declining state hegemony in some areas and increasing hegemony in others. The authors examine the growth and increasing autonomy of indigenous populations, and the massively destabililizing effect of migration processes. They describe the rapid increase in criminalization of ethnic and immigrant groups as well as an increase in class stratification, creating new forms of social confrontation and violence. In addition to ethnic, identity-based conflict there are analyses of transnational criminal networks, which also represents disintegration of larger homogeneous territories or hierarchical orders. The authors ask us to reevaluate the dynamics of globalization-the contradictions of centralization and fragmentation around the world-as we discover how best to transform these conditions for the future. This research was originally funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Globalization, the State and Violence will be a valuable reference in anthropology, social theory, international politics and economics, ethnic conflict, immigration, and economic history.

About the Author
Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and professor of social anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Reviews
Jonathan Friedman's Globalization, the State, and Violence is one of the most recent attempts to make sense of the disparate global conditions that are the subject of globalization discourse. . . . [It] stands on its own as a respectable and well-argued piece of research that makes a valid empirical contribution to globalization literature. -- Eric A. Heinze, University of Nebraska * Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 23, No.4, Fall 2003 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780759102811
Author Jonathan Friedman
Format Paperback
Page Count 408
Imprint AltaMira Press
Publisher AltaMira Press
Weight(grams) 644g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 145mm * 26mm