Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading globalization.'' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide.

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Introduction. Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective; G. Preyer, M. Bös. I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System. The Continual Reconstruction of Multiple Modern Civilizations and Collective Identities; S.H. Eisenstadt. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective; C.C. Dunn. World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Incorporation and Resistance to State Expansion; T.D. Hall. After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism; R.E. Lee. II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships. Globalization and the Evolution of Membership; G. Preyer. Enacting Globalization - Transnational Networks and the Deterritorialisation of Social Relationship; B. Axford. Immigration and the Open Society: The Normative Patterns of Membership in the Nation State; M. Bös. A Transformation of National Identity? Refugees and German Society after World War II; U. Gerhardt, B. Hohenester. III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines. The Collapse of the Moral Boundaries of Peripherial Countries; C. Davies, E. Trivizas. Beyond East'' and West''. On the European and Global Dimensions of the Fall of Communism; F.P. Wagner. Socioeconomic Restructurings of the Local Settings in the Era of Globalization; F. Entrena. Index. Contributors.