After Globalization

World Society Studies

Volume 2024

A series edited by the World Society Foundation Zurich, Switzerland
Editors: Christian Suter, Patrick Ziltener 

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Christian Suter and Patrick Ziltener (eds). 2024. After Globalization: The Future of World Society. World Society Studies Vol. 2024. Wien/Zürich: Lit.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52038/9783643804099

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After several decades of significantly increasing global economic, socio-cultural, and political integration, the globalization pendulum is swinging back. But what comes “After Globalization”? The 26 chapters of this volume, originally presented at the Word Society Foundation’s 40^th anniversary celebration in 2022, address from different angles four core issues of “deglobalization”: First, the re-conceptualization of world society within the current context of deglobalization. Second, the dynamics that are (re)shaping the world-economy, including processes of fragmentation, regionalization, reshoring, and global and regional polarization. Third, the current dynamics of global social and cultural structures, including new globalization cleavages, political mobilization, popular protest and resistance, and political participation and democracy. Fourth, the increasing great power conflicts and global rivalries and their repercussions on processes of (de)globalization.

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Preface                                                                                                                                                

1   Towards Deglobalization? Studying World Society in the 21st Century                   
Christian Suter and Patrick Ziltener 

PART I: Conceptualizing World Society in the Face of Deglobalization 

2   Fifty Years of Research on World Society—The Zurich “World Observatory”                  
Christian Suter, Patrick Ziltener, and Hans-Peter Meier-Dallach 

3   Dynamics of Global Change and the Concept(s) of World Society   
Mathias Albert

4   Global Warming and the Concepts of World Society: The Coincidence of Epistemological 
and Political Challenges                                        
Veronika Wittmann

5   No Justice Without a World Society?                                                                               
Nadja Wolf 

6   Producing Functional Ignorance for Global Capitalism: Rise and Decline of the Concept
of the Noosphere                                                                                                                    
Andrzej W. Nowak

7   The “New” Globalization: Rethinking North-South Relations and Inequalities from an 
Afro-Renaissance Perspective                                                               
Salifou Ndam

8   The Decolonization of Knowledge as Challenge for World Society: Reflections from a Sociologist of Social Policies in South Africa and Brazil
Madalitso Zililo Phiri

PART II: The World-Economy in the Context of Deglobalization 

9   Globalization Undone                                                                                                            
Robert K. Schaeffer 

10   Supply Chain Crises: Harbingers of Deglobalization? A Look at Automobiles, Steel, 
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and Amazon                                                                
Paul S. Ciccantell, Spencer Louis Potiker, David A. Smith, and Elizabeth Sowers

11   Beyond the Global Value Chain World                                                                                 
Benjamin Selwyn

12   Chains of Dependency: Changing Importation Practices in the Democratic Republic of 
Congo                                                                                                                                     
Lesley Nicole Braun

13   Is the World Economy “Deglobalizing”? The Shifting Economic Geography of Foreign Investment (FDI) Networks and Its Impact on Economic Growth, 2009–2017 
Jeffrey Kentor and Rob Clark

14   The New Geography of Global Inequality and the Evolution of the World City System 
Since 1993                                                                                                                               
Helge Marahrens and Arthur S. Alderson

15   The Globalization of Production and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Capitalist 
Democracies: Retrenchment and Convergence Revisited                                                      
Anthony J. Roberts and Matthew C. Mahutga

PART III: Social Structures and Cleavages, Social and Political Mobilization and Participation in a Deglobalizing World Society 

16   Transnationalization and Perceptions of Winners of Globalization: Evidence from a 
Conjoint Experiment in Germany                                                                                          
Rasmus Ollroge

17   Has Global Semiperiphery Ended in the Era of Deglobalization? Transforming Epicenter 
of Antisystemic Movements in the Global South                                                                 
Chungse Jung

18   Deglobalizing Patterns of Youth Political Engagement in Countries with Varying 
Democratic and Egalitarian Profiles                                                                                      
Melissa Lopez Reyes, Shayne G. Polias, and Ma. Concha B. de la Cruz

19   The Intensification/Expansion of the Neoliberal Agenda and Resistance in the Philippine Context: Implications for a Movement Towards Deglobalization  
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

20   International Tourists as Guardians of National Democracies?                                       
Georg P. Mueller

21   Globality and Particularity of Legal Norms in South Africa’s Relation with World Society 
Jürgen Schraten

22   Social Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Non-Globalization of World Society            
Daniel Künzler

PART IV: Global Rivalry and Geopolitics “After Globalization” 

23   After Globalization: The Political Economy of Mercantilism                                         
Robert A. Denemark

24   From The Belt & Road Initiative to A Community of Shared Future for Mankind:
Contesting China’s Aspiration and Road Map for a Future World Society                         
Zhan Zhang

25   The Cold War 2.0 Fallacy: An Exploratory Study of the Diplomatic and Commercial 
Relations Between China and the US                                                                                
Alexandre Abdal and Douglas Meira Ferreira

26   Rings of Geopolitical Power: The Emergence of the Space Ring                                       
Albert J. Bergesen

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