This project has brought together more than 80 experts from around the world to write about various issues of globalization. It has been an arduous task but immensely rewarding. I wish to acknowledge the contributors for all their hard work and dedication. I appreciate the staff and support at ABC-CLIO for their patience and guidance, especially Jim Ciment, Wendy Roseth, and Christine Marra. I also wish to thank my student assistants, Ioulia Tsoi and Merissa Stith,who very ably performed the difficult task of keeping the project on track. I wish to thank my family,Nivedita, Jaanhvi, and Avaneesh, for their support, love, and encouragement. I wish to acknowledge and thank my mother, Padma,for her unflinching belief in my abilities, my late father, Kamalakar, for inculcating a global perspective in me, and my sister, Shobhana, who is a source of inspiration always.