Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. The authors analyze the increasing criminalization of ethnic populations, the massively destabililizing effect of migration processes, and new forms of transnational criminal networks that represents disintegration of larger homogeneous territories. This book will be a valuable reference in anthropology, social theory, international politics and economics, ethnic and immigration studies, and economic history.

Chapter 1: Globalization, Dis-integration, Reorganization, the Transformations of Violence Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2: Class Projects, Social Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Globalization Chapter 3: Economic Globalization and the Redrawing of Citizenship Chapter 4: Beyond the Informal Economy: New Trends in Post-Fordist Transition Chapter 5: The New Paradigm of Violence Chapter 6: The Case for Citizenship as Social Contract: A Tale of Two Girls Chapter 7: American Neoliberalism, "Globalization" and Violence: Reflections from the United States and Southeast Asia Chapter 8: Killing Me Softly: Violence, Globalization, and the Apparent State Chapter 9: Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization, Disjunctions and Continuities in Sri Lanka Chapter 10: Imagining Monsters: A Structural History of Warfare in Chad Chapter 11: "Trouble Spots": Projects, Bandits and State Fragmentation Chapter 12: State-Classes, the Logic of Rentier Power and Social Disintegration: Global Parameters and Local Structures of the Decline of the Congo

Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Ytudes, Ycole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and professor of social anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden.