„Debates about globalization have become stereotyped. Universalists hope for one world united under rational law; postmodernists and their postcolonial and neo-Marxist allies dreamof a heterotopia of autonomous free agents. In this book, RonaldNiezen steps outside this sterile dualism to show how each sidesubscribes to the same Western utopian ideals, which are thenimposed on the facts. Case material from his wide experienceillustrates the failings of ideologically generated theories andoffers a more realistic approach to the actual experience ofglobalization. Elegantly written, free of cant, empiricallygrounded, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately argued, this brilliant book is required reading.“ Charles Lindholm, Boston University „This volume is a thought-provoking, intellectuallyexciting analysis of the quest for a global borderless society ... The author presents many inspired and thought-provoking challengesto the reader and one cannot but be impressed by the logic of hisarguments.“ Cambridge University Press