The new edition of Globalism picks up where the first edition left off sandwiched between the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. As global challengers moved from peaceful protest to more violent confrontation, the market ideology of the dominant Western perspective transformed into what Steger terms an imperial globalism led by the United States. With the birth of this new global imperialism came a more militaristic and openly coercive version of the economic globalism of the 1990s, as exemplified by the ongoing global War on Terror. Visit our website for sample chapters!

In the new edition, Steger (politics and government, Illinois State U.) updates and expands his arguments in light of the political and social changes brought about by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He presents globalization as not merely a set of material processes anchored in economics and technology, but a system of ideas circulating in the public realm as stories that attempt to define, describe, and evaluate those processes. The study's overarching intent, Steger writes, is "to contribute to a critical theory of globalization that encourages the reader to recognize the internal contradictions and biases of the globalist discourse and thus provides people with a better understanding of how dominant beliefs about globalization fashion their realities and how these ideas can be changed."
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