Globalization includes complex processes, easy to identify but difficult to explain. Why, for instance, are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who struggle daily to atain the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized neighbours. In these two regions' divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations for political and cultural autonomy that sparked the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Near East.

Table of Contents:
Preface to Series / Preface to the English Edition Introduction / Yassine Essid and William D. Coleman Part 1: Adapting and Integrating -- Governing in Globalization 1 Globalization, Governance, and Autonomy / Abdeljabbar Bsaies 2 Globalization, Autonomy, and the Euro-Mediterranean Space: The Issues of Regional Cooperation and the Challenges of Sovereignty / Faika Charfi and Sameh Zouari Part 2: Globalization in the Great Texts 3 'Asabiyya, Market, and Society: The Contemporary Relevance of Ibn Khaldun's Vision of Social Change / Olivia Orozco de la Torre 4 Transmission of Texts and Globalization of Knowledge: Inter-religious Dialogue in Castile in the Fifteenth Century / Sonia Fellous Part 3: Religions and Globalization 5 Islam: Globalization, Autonomy, and Internationality / Mohamed Yassine Essid 6 Muslim Women in the Mediterranean Region: Discriminatory Autonomy / Latifa Lakhdhar Part 4: Cultural Autonomy -- Music and Food 7 Local Tunisian Music and Globalization: Between Musical Autonomy and Commercial Autonomy / Myriem Lakhoua 8 Globalization and Food Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Amado A. Millán Fuertes 9 The Fuentes de Ebro Sweet Onion: Autonomy through Globalization / Rulof Kerkhoff 10 Globalization of Food Practices in Amman / Almudena Hasan Bosque 11 Food Globalization and Autonomy Strategies: The Case of Meat in Tunisia / Paula Durán Monfort Part 5: Cultural Autonomy -- Languages and Education 12 Globalized Literature and Autonomy: The Arabic Novel in the West / François Zabbal 13 The Use of English in North Africa: From Globalization to Autonomy / Mongi Bahloul 14 Globalization, Autonomy, and Higher Education: The French and Tunisian Cases / Houda Ben Hassen Part 6: Globalization and Autonomy -- The Economic Question 15 The Economics of Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region / Lotfi Bouzaïane 16 Globalization and Autonomy in the Mediterranean Region: The Roles of the Main Stakeholders / Rim Ben Ayed Mouelhi 17 The Challenge of Financial Globalization in Countries South of the Mediterranean Basin / Samouel Béji 18 Industrial Policy in the Mediterranean Region and Capacities for Autonomy in a Context of Globalization / Jihen Malek 19 The South Mediterranean Countries and Economic Opening: The State of Affairs / Nizard Jouini 20 The Mediterranean and Outsourcing / Fatma Sarraj Epilogue 21 Globalization and Autonomy: The Individual in the Maghreb / Interview with Dr. Hashmi Dhaoui Notes; Works Cited; Index