Globalization: Links to Academic Resources

Commercial Resources

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Selected Bibliography

These materials have been listed in various academic bibliographies. They have been used, or have been recommended in, university courses. Some of the same titles also appear in the MindTools book selections and direct links to Amazon below. If you have suggestions for materials or would like to write a review of any of these materials, contact us.

Books
Barber, Benjamin, Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy
Brennan, Teresa, Globalization and its Terrors
Brezinski, Zbigniew K., The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership
Chomsky, Noam, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
Chua, Amy, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Maret Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Friedman, Thomas, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man
Gibney, Matthew, ed., Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Giddens, Anthony, Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives
Greider, William, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
Greider, William, The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
Guma, Greg, Uneasy Emire: Repression, Globalization, and What We Can Do
Huntington, Samuel, The Clash of Civilizations
Kaplan, Robert, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Kittrie, Nicholas, Carazo, Rodrigo, and Mancham, James, eds., The Future of Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Krugman, Paul, Pop Internationalism
Mandelbaum, Michael, The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century
Micklethwait, John and Wooldridge, Adrian, A Perfect Future: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization
Pauly, Louis W., Who Elected the Bankers: Surveillance and Control in the World Economy
Pieterse, Jan Nederveen, Globalization and Culture: Global Melange
Singer, Peter, One World: The Ethics of Globalization
Singer, Peter, The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
Soros, George, The Bubble of American Supremacy
Seger, Manfred, Globalizism: The New Market Ideology
Stiglitz, Joseph, Globalization and Its Discontents
Went, Robert, Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical Responses
Zakaria, Fareed, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

Articles
Miles, Jack, “Theology and the Clash of Civilizations” Cross Currents (Winter 2001/2002)

Audio Resources

<a “href=”http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136298”>Interview with Robert Kaplan, author of ‘Warrior Politics’ (Part 2)

Book Reviews

Several reviews of Stiglitz’s ‘Discontents’ book from Arlindo Correia’s site.

Cultural Aspects

BBC News Story – Hostage crisis calms headscarf row

Paper – The Moral Response to Terrorism and the Cosmopolitan Imperative – Louis Pojman

Papers – Academic – Various papers by Dr. David Lavery

UNESCO World Culture Report, 1998 – Culture, Creativity and Markets

DataBases

EarthTrends Goods and Services Exports, percent of GDP

GDP Purchasing Power Parity – Millions of Dollars – Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues

Economic Aspects

Academic Paper – Europe and the Causes of Globalization 1790-2000

Academic Paper – Globalization of the Economy – NBER – 2000

Article – How Europe Sows Misery in Africa

Book Review – Ian Hacking on Sen’s Inequality Reexamined

Chart – from ITU – WORLD INDICATORS – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Columbia News Video – Stiglitz, Soros, Sachs, et. al on the Current Climate of Globalization

Paper – Europe and the causes of globalization, 1790 to 2000

Mansfield University – Business & Economics Numeric Data (Links)

Mark Krikorian on Immigration on National Review Online

Paper – Is The Large U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable

Paper – Poverty in an Age of Globalization. World Bank. 2000

Paper – Weighted Voting Doesn’t Work for the IMF and World Bank.

Short Article – TCS Tech Central Station – The Balance of SavingShrot Article – Understanding Imports and Exports

Environmental Aspects

Article from WorldChanging.com – What’s the Biggest Sustainability Problem in the World

Online Magazines

BaobabConnections.Org

Business in AfricaForeign Policy Your portal to global politics, economics, and ideasYaleGlobal Online Magazine

Organizations

2020 Fund – Creating a sustainable world for everyone’s children.

Africa Renewal (formerly ‘Africa Recovery’), United NationsCenter for International Development at Harvard University (CID)

DATA (Debt, Aids, Trade, Africa) – Organization advocates equity for Africa

Economics Web Institute

Global Policy ForumInternational Forum on GlobalizationInternational Telecommunication Union – subdivision of U.N.

The United Nations and BusinessThe World Bank Group

UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

World Bank Group Site for Poverty – PovertyNet Home

World Resources InstituteWorldwatch Institute – Environment and Social Justice

Outsourcing

Article – Thomas Sowell – Third world sweatshops

Phil Knight (NIKE) pledges to work with U.N.

Political Aspects

Patterns of World Urbanization

The Urbanization of the World

Terrorism

ERRI Counter-Terrorism Archive Page

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