Author Description

About the Author Göran Therborn, is Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University. Publications include Between Sex and Power. Family in the World, 1900-2000 (2004), and Inequalities of World (2006).Habibul Haque Khondker, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh, 1984) is Professor at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has published on nationalism, democracy and globalization. Product Description This interdisciplinary book by a group of Asian and European scholars provides a deeper understanding of globalization as an historical process with special attention to the regional and national contexts. Globalization, this book demonstrates, has its roots in civilizational dialogues and interchanges.