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9780761829225

Globalization Redux New Name, Same Game

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761829225

  • ISBN10:

    0761829229

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-01
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

This volume is a peer-reviewed collection of essays submitted by participants of two joint conferences on the theme of globalization. The essays collected in this volume deal with a wide variety of subjects related to globalization, ranging from the social sciences to the humanities. Globalization Redux contributes to a better understanding of globalization and its ramifications in a host of domains.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. v
Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introduction: Globalization Redux: New Name, Same Gamep. 1
Globalization, Development, and Wagesp. 35
Foreign Direct Investment and Trends in Modern Economics: Fact vs. Fictionp. 45
The IT Revolution and Business: An International Comparisonp. 59
The Social Justice Implications of Global Warmingp. 67
The United States and the United Nations: Unilateralism in an Era of Globalizationp. 109
One Year After the Kim-Kim Talks: North Korea and International Securityp. 133
The French Challenge to Globalizationp. 145
The Globalization of Educationp. 157
Leisure and Tourism and the Development of New Urban Spaces in the Global Villagep. 171
National Poems, Global Themes: "Duty" in the Epic Traditionp. 183
Beyond Frontiers: William Nelson Lovatt in Late Nineteenth-Century China and Koreap. 195
The Importance of Ethnic Studies in the Curriculum: The Case of Japanese-Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Centuryp. 203
Primacy of Practice in Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, Japan: Four Rituals and Three "Bodies"p. 213
Contributorsp. 231
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