全球化－－跨世紀的顯學

Globalization Studies: A Popular Research Topic at the Turn of the Century

全球化研究已經成為國際學術界研究的新熱點。文章首先根據發表在海外的有關全球化的英文論著，歸納了主流學術界所流行的有關全球化定義、作用和功能的四大學派，包括新左派、新自由派、轉型學派和懷疑學派。同時，文章對此四大學派進行了批判性的評述和比較，最後提出研究全球化問題所應遵循的四大原則，即定性研究原則、定量研究原則、學科交叉原則和價值中立原則。

Globalization studies has been a popular turn-of-the-century research topic. This article is designed to summarize the definitions, functions, and impacts of globalization as found in the leading scholarship on the subject. After discussing the four schools of globalization studies-Neo-Marxism, Neo-Liberalism, the Transformationalist Thesis, and the Skeptical Thesis, the article critically compares and contrasts the similarities and differences found in these four approaches. Finally, the article proposes four principles of globalization studies-qualitative, quantitative, interdisciplinary, and value-free judgment.