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
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
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
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