Ph.D. Reading List

Reading List for the Global Studies Qualifying Exam


Global Histories


Abu-Lughod. J. Before European Hegemony: The World System, ca 1250–1350. Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 3–49, 137–290, 316–373.

Anderson. Benedict. Imagined Communities (2nd ed.) Verso, 1991.

Hobsbawm, E. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Braudel, Ferdinand. The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol. 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Fukuyama, Francis. 1992. The End of History and the Last Man. New York: Free Press.

Huntington, Samuel. 2004 [1993] "The Clash of Civilizations" in Frank J Lechner and John Boli ed. The Globalization Reader – Second Edition. Blackwell. Pp. 36-44.

James, Harold. The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression, Harvard University Press, 2001, 1–100; 168–224.

Kant, Immanuel, "Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent" in Carl J. Friedrich, ed., The Philosophy of Kant (New York: The Modern Library, 1949), pp. 116-131

Mintz, Sidney. 1986. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Penguin Classics.

Osterhammel, Jürgen and Niels P. Peterson. 2003. Globalization: a short history. Princeton University Press.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Vintage Books, 1978.

Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States. AD 990–1990. Basil Blackwell, 1990. Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 5.


Systemic Globalization


Boli, J. & F. Ramirez. "Global Patterns of Educational Institutionalization," in Institutional Structure, G.M. Thomas, et al. pp. 15–172.

Deudney, Daniel, and G. John Ikenberry. 1999. "The Nature and Sources of Liberal International Order," Review of International Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 1999), pp. 179-196.

Evans P. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Princeton University Press, 1995. (especially Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10)

Ferguson, J. The Anti-Politics Machine. Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. xiii-xvi 3–88, 251–288.

Katzenstein, Peter, ed. The Culture of National Security, Columbia University Press, 1996, pp. 33–75.

Mann, M. "Nation-states in Europe and Other Continents: Diversifying, Developing, Not Dying," Daedalus 122:115–140, 1993.

Meyer, John. 2009. World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer. Edited by Georg Krucken and Gili S. Drori. Oxford UP, 2009.

Murakami, Yasusuke. 1996. An Anti-Classical Political-Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century (Stanford UP, 1996), pp. 27-56, 97-117, 263-292.

Nadelmann, E. A. 1990. "Global Prohibition Regimes: The Evolution of Norms in International Society." International Organization 44:479–526, (1990).

Robertson, Roland. Globalization Sage, 1992.

Sassen, Saskia. 2008. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages. Princeton. Chapters, 4 -5.

Soysal, Y. "Citizenship and Claims-Making: Organized Islam in European Public Spheres," Theory and Society, June/July 1997.

Steger, Manfred B. 2009. Globalisms: the great ideological struggle of the twenty-first century Globalization. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Stiglitz, Joseph. 2003. Globalization and its Discontents. W. W. Norton.

Thomson J. and S. Krasner. "Global Transactions and the Consolidation of Sovereignty," in Global Changes and Theoretical Challenges, E. Czempiel and J. N. Rosenau, eds. Lexington Books, 1989, pp. 195–219.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Duke University Press.


Transnationalism


Basch, Linda, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc. 1994. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Chapters 1 & 2.

Constable, Nicole. 2003. Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages. University of California Press, Chapters 1, 2 and 8.

Gilroy, P. The Black Atlantic, Harvard University press, 1993, 1-40, 72-110.

Hannerz, Ulf. Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. [Chapter 3 "Correspondent's Careers"]

Iwabuchi, Koichi. 2002 Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press.

Keck, Marget and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Cornell University Press, 1998. [Chapter 1, 2 & 3]

Keohane, Robert, and Joseph Nye. Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition. New York: Longman, 2000.

Massey, Douglas S., et al. "Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal." Population and Development Review 19(3):431–466 (1993).

Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke University Press, 1999. [Chapter 1]

Parrenas, Rachel Salazar. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. [Chapter 4: "The Transnational Family"]

Portes, Alejandro, Louise. E. Guarnizo, and William J. Haller. "Transnational entrepreneurs: an alternative form of immigrant adaptation," American Sociological Review, 67; 278–298 (2002).

Sklair, Leslie. The Transnational Capitalist Class. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. [Introduction and Chapter 1, 2,3]

Smith, Michael Peter, and Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, eds. Transnationalism from Below. Transaction Publishers, 2004. [Chapters 1, 3, 10]


Global-Local Dynamics


Altman, Robert. 2001. Global Sex. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.[Chaps 1, 2 and 6]

Appadurai, Arjun. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" in Michael Featherstone (ed.) Global Culture, pp. 295–310, (1990). (also in Frank J. Lechner and John Boli, ed. The Globalization Reader - Second Edition. Blackwell, 2003)

Burawoy, Michael. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World University of California Press, 2000. [Introduction]

Croucher, Sheila L. 2003. Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in a Changing World. Rowman and Littlefield.

Dirlik, Arif. "The Global in the Local" in Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary. Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 21–45.

Featherstone, Michael. "Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity" in Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake, eds. Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary. Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 46–77.

Friedman, Jonathan. "Cultural Logics in the Global System," Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 5, Nos. 2–3, 1988.

Hannerz, Ulf. Cultural Complexity, Columbia University Press, 1992, pp. 217–267.

Risse-Kappen, T. 1996. "Exploring the Nature of the Beast: International Relations Theory and Comparative Policy Analysis Meet the European Union," Journal of Common Market Studies 34: 53-80.

Roberson, Roland. "Glocalisation: Time-space and homogeneity-heterogeneity," in Michael Featherstone et al (ed.) Global Modernities. London: Sage, 1995, pp. 25–44.

Street, John. "'Across the Universe': The Limits of Global Popular Culture" in Alan Scott, ed.The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments. Routledge, 1997.

Watson, James L. Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia. Stanford University Press, 1997. [Introduction and Chapters 1, 2, 3]