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Book SynopsisA collection of major articles and position papers on the concept of globalisation. This book broadens the scope and lays the ground work for an interdisciplinary collaborative dialog.
Trade Review"If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written about globalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader is the place to start. Meant for students it pulls together pieces from such different sources as Atlantic Monthly and the Harvard Business Review. It ranges from Samuel Huntingdon's influential essay in Foreign Affairs, "The Clash of Civilizations" (1993) to an article on "The Promise of Genetics" from the Futurist in 1997. Organised by topic the book is pleasingly eclectic. For a radical perspective, you can read, for instance, the manifesto of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement of Peru. The book also has a brief guide to globalization resources on the web."--The Economist, October 14, 2000 "Globalisation and the Challenges of the New Century is an anthology of previously published articles... the editors should be congratulated for moving beyond the established canon of political economy to include writings by environmentalists and one piece by an Indian corporate manager rather than more words from the familiar voices of the western business scene. The great strength of the editors' selection, however, is that it tends towards fairly accessible texts... for those who need a more gentle point of entry into contentious debates, these can be very useful additions to teaching curricula."--The Times Higher Education Supplement, Textbook Guide, Issue No. 7, 24 November 2000
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Global Order and Disorder: Speculations
Samuel Huntington: The Clash of civilizations
Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld
Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy
2. Global Order and Disorder: Rejoinders
Faoud Ajami: The Summoning
Eisuke Sakakibara: The End of Progressivism
John Bowen: The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict
3. Redrawing the Map? The New Nature of National Borders
Kenichi Ohmae: The Rise of the Region State
Janet Ceglowski: Has Globalization Created a Borderless World:
Ann-Marie Slaughter: The Real New World Order
4. Conflict and Security in a New World Order
Kofi Annan: The Politics of Globalization
Michael Klare: Redefining Security: The New Global Schisms
David Keen: Organized Chaos: Not the New world We Ordered
Walter Laqueur: Postmodern Terrorism
5. Globalization and the Evolution of Democracy
Francis Fukuyama: The End of History
Fareed Zakaria: The Rise of Illiberal Democracy
Robert Kaplan: Was Democracy Just a Moment?
6. The New Global Economy
Jeffrey Sachs: International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization
Dani Rodrik: Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate
Roger Altman: The Nuke of the 90s
Lester Thurow: New Rules: The American Economy in the Next Century
Aihwa Ong: The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement: Neo-Liberalism and Globalization
7. Doing Business in the Information Age
Thomas Malone and Robert Laubacher: The Dawn of the E-Lance Economy
Stephen Kobrin: Electronic and the End of National Markets
Gurchuran Das: Local Memoirs of a Global Manager
8. Forecasting the Future: Innovations, Technology, Winners, and Losers
Paul Kennedy: Preparing for the 21st Century: Winners and Losers
William E. Halal, Michael D. Kull and Ann Leffmann: Emerging Technologies: What's Ahead for 2001-2030
9. 'Think Global, Act Local': The Environment
Thomas and Tamara Belt: Growth and the Environment: Allies or Foes?
Bill McKibben: A Special Moment in History
Eugen Linden: The Exploding Cities of the Developing World
10. An Emerging Global Culture?
Peter Berger: Four Faces of Global Culture
Madeleine Drohan and Alan Freeman: Winning the Language Wars: English as a Global Language
Joshua Fishman: The New Linguistic Order
David Rothkopf: In Praise of Cultural Imperialism
The Economist: Culture Wars
11. Resource Bibliography (by Robert Goehlert and Anthony Stamatoplos)
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