Description: Based on years of fieldwork and empirical research, this study elucidates the tensions that globalization has created and shows why Latin America is a battleground for those seeking to shape the twenty-first century's world order.
Brief description: William I. Robinson is a professor of sociology, global studies, and Latin American and Iberian studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books on globalization, including A Theory of Global Capitalism, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Review Quotes: A scathing indictment of neoliberal globalization from an explicitly anti-capitalist perspective . . . An exemplary treatment of Latin America's present day political economy and social predicaments.
--Jeffery R. Webber, Monthly Review