Abstract
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University, where he also serves as Acting Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Prior to coming to Warwick, he taught at the University of Sussex, Brighton and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Aside from his many articles, book chapters, and reports, Dr. Scholte is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave, 2000; 2nd Edition Forthcoming in 2005) and International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993), co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and editor of Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge, 2002). He has two new books on the immediate horizon: Civil Society and Global Democracy, forthcoming from Polity Press in 2005; and the Encyclopedia of Globalization (co-edited with Roland Robertson), to be published by Routledge in 2006. A scholar of considerable learning and expertise in many domains of globalization studies, Scholte's current research focuses on questions of democratizing the globalization studies. At present, Scholte is also an active member of the Steering Committee of the Globalization Studies Network.