Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels‎,‎ systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce‎.‎ Hence‎,‎ this book approaches the complex question of inequality not only from different regional perspectives‎,‎ covering Africa‎,‎ Asia‎,‎ Europe‎,‎ Latin and Northern America‎,‎ but also from different disciplinary perspectives‎,‎ namely cultural anthropology‎,‎ economics‎,‎ ethnology‎,‎ geography‎,‎ international relations‎,‎ sociology‎,‎ and political sciences‎.‎The contributions are subdivided into three essential fields of research‎:‎ Part I analyzes the socio‎-economic dimension of global exclusion‎,‎ highlighting in particular the impacts of internationalization and globalization processes on national social structures against the background of theoretical concepts of social inequality‎.‎ Part II addresses the political dimension of global inequalities‎.‎ Since the decline of the Soviet Union new regional powers like Brazil‎,‎ China‎,‎ India and South Africa have eme‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎