International Relations of Social Change

Jan Aart Scholte

Social change has become very obviously internationalized during the current historical epoch. Democratization, industrialization, the growth of capitalism, the emergence of nationalism, the rise and fall of communism, the advent of various types of religious revivalism: most of the key developments in the social life of our times have unfolded on a world scale. Indeed, the most fundamental transformation in recent history has perhaps been the process of globalization itself. This book aims to equip students of international relations and other fields to analyse social change from a global perspective. The author addresses such core problems as what we mean by 'international relations'; the relationship between international and domestic aspects of the process of social transformation; the role of politics, economics, culture, psychology and ecology in the dynamics of change; the...

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