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Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World is a 1995 book by American political scientist Benjamin Barber, in which he puts forth a theory that describes the struggle between "McWorld" (globalization and the corporate control of the political process) and "Jihad" (Arabic term for "struggle", here modified to mean tradition and traditional values, in the form of ...
Adam Lupel is the Vice President and Chief Executive Officer at the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York. [2] [3]He was managing editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory [4] before joining IPI in 2006 as editor.
Globalization is sometimes perceived as a cause of a phenomenon called the "race to the bottom" that implies that to minimize cost and increase delivery speed, businesses tend to locate operations in countries with the least stringent environmental and labor regulations. Pressure to do this is increased if competitors lower costs by the same means.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus LS, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization is a book by Wayne Ellwood, an editor for the New Internationalist.It was first published in 2001 by Verso Books.. It covers topics such as globalization around the world, the Bretton Woods Institutions, developing countries' debt, poverty, the environment, and possible means of redesigning the global economy.
Pages in category "Low-importance Globalization articles" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 402 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Antipode; Development and Change; Economic Geography; Global Affairs; Global Education Magazine; Global Environmental Politics; Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
One World: The Ethics of Globalisation is a 2002 book about globalization by the philosopher Peter Singer.In the book, Singer applies moral philosophy to four issues: the impact of human activity on the atmosphere; international trade regulation (and the World Trade Organization); the concept of national sovereignty; and the distribution of aid.