What is the hottest American export since 9/11? The contributors to this provocative volume contend that it is Western style globalism—the dominant free market ideology that determines everything from most favored nation status to the declaration of war. In this much-needed post September 11th analysis, an interdisciplinary author team shows how central concepts like globalization, liberty, free markets, and free trade are increasingly being subordinated to and lumped together with the war on terrorism led by the U.S. and its allies.

What is the hottest American export since 9/11? The contributors to this provocative volume contend that it is Western style globalism-the dominant free market ideology that determines everything from most-favored-nation status to the declaration of war. In this much-needed post-September 11 analysis, an interdisciplinary team of authors shows how central concepts like globalization, liberty, free markets, and free trade are increasingly being subordinated to and lumped together with the war on terrorism led by the U.S. and its allies. The authors here-hailing from all five continents—contend that globalism is being adapted to particular social and political contexts in various parts of the world. Nonetheless, the impact of globalization with an ideological twist can be devastating as military operations and propaganda supplant transnational trade initiatives as the focal point of global exchange. And ironically, the post-9/11 framework contains a major ideological contradiction: Social forces otherwise profiting from expanded global mobility and interchange must come to grips with necessary limitations on certain aspects of globalization. This volume was handcrafted to outline the major lines of inquiry proposed for the new Globalization series, edited by Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver. Writing in accessible, engaging prose, the contributors to this anchor volume consider themselves critical globalization theorists who seek to provide readers with a better understanding of how dominant beliefs about globalization fashion their realities and how these ideas can be changed to bring about more equitable social arrangements. Books in the series will share the same perspective and goals.

Chapter 1 I Introduction: Rethinking the Ideological Dimensions of Globalization
Chapter 2 I Globalism
Chapter 3 II Ideologies and the Globalization Agenda
Chapter 4 III The Matrix of Global Enchantment
Chapter 5 IV The End of Capitalist Globalization
Chapter 6 V Global Containment: The Production of Feminist Invisibility and the Vanishing Horizon of Justice
Chapter 7 VI Ideology and Globalization: From Globalism and Environmentalism to Ecoglobalism
Chapter 8 VII Globalizing Militaries
Chapter 9 II Antiglobalism
Chapter 10 VIII Ideology in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Chapter 11 IX Globalization: Ideology and Materiality
Chapter 12 X Anti-Capitalist Convergence? Anarchism, Socialism, and the Global Justice Movement
Chapter 13 XI Globalization and the New Realism of Human Rights
Chapter 14 III Globalism in a Global Context
Chapter 15 XII Globalization and National Development: Futurism and Nostalgia in Contemporary Political Economic Thinking
Chapter 16 XIII Globalization and Africa's Intellectual Engagements
Chapter 17 XIV Emergent Globalism and Ideological Change in Post-Revolutionary China
Chapter 18 XV Antiglobalism Globalization in East Asia: Statist versus Societal
Chapter 19 XVI Kozo Kaikaku: The Emergence of Neoliberal Globalization Discourse in Japan
Chapter 20 XVII Global Order and the Historical Structures of Dar-al-Islam
Chapter 21 XVIII The Emperor's Map: Latin American Critiques of Globalism
Chapter 22 XIX Globalization in Hawai'i: The Promise of Globalism and the Reality of Capitalism