Introduction / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones -- Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones -- What is globalization? -- Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Competing conceptions of globalization / Leslie Sklair -- Globalization : a world-systems perspective / Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Global inequality -- Global inequality : an introduction / Jonathan H. Turner, Salvatore J. Babones -- Global energy inequalities : exploring the long-term implications / Bruce Podobnik -- Globalization and the environment -- Ecosystems and world systems : accumulation as an ecological process / Alf Hornborg -- Global social change, natural resource consumption, and environmental degradation / Andrew W. Jorgenson -- Globalization, hegemony, and global governance -- Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi -- Contemporary intracore relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan -- Global social movements -- Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Environmentalism and the trajectory of the anti-corporate globalization movement / Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Gould -- National and global foundations of global civil society / Jackie Smith, Dawn Wiest -- Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery : on to global democracy / Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Globalization and the future of democracy / John Markoff.