Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow at Western Sydney University. He also served as a globalization consultant for the U.S. Department of State. He is the author or editor of twenty-seven books on globalization and social theory, including The Rise of the Global Imaginary (Oxford University Press, 2008); the award-winning Globalisms: Facing the Populist Challenge, 4th ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020); and Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Paul James, Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Updated fifth edition explores the history and impact of globalization, highlighting new developments in the advancing of climate change, the presidency of Donald Trump, and the Mexico-US border. * Journal of Economic Literature (Volume 59, no. 1) * (Review from previous edition) This work is concise and accessible and to be recommended to a general audience seeking to gain a first overview of the broad and complex dynamics connected to the term globalization. * Dominic Sachsenmaier, The American Historical Review *