Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and Senior Advisor on International Education and Globalization to the Dean of Social Sciences. He is also the Research Leader of the Globalization and Culture Program in RMIT University's Global Cities Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the ... Read moreUS State Department and as an advisor to the PBS TV series, "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism." He is the author or editor of twenty-one books on globalization, global history, and the history of political ideas, including: The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008); the award-winning Globalisms: The Great Ideological Struggle of the 21st Century, 3rd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2013). Show Less