1. See Martin Albrow, The Global Age, Stanford, 1997;
2. and also Barrie Axford, The Global System: Economics, Politics, Culture, New York, 1995; from a conceptual perspective
3. Roland Robertson, Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture, London, 1992 (reprinted 1998).
4. See the debate conducted in Amsterdam at The Erasmus Foundation (ed.), The Limits of Pluralism: Neo-Absolutisms and Relativism Amsterdam, 1994 (for my contribution on Islamic Neo-Absolutism, see pp. 29–35). See also John Kekes, The Morality of Pluralism, Princeton, NJ, 1993, for new major theses on pluralism, see pp. 17–37.
5. Manuel Castells, The Power of Identity, Oxford, 1997, p. 8.