Introduction | |
The Global Century.Dateline | |
New York (World Trade Center).Dateline | |
South Pacific (Amazon millionaires) | |
Globalization and issues of power and opportunity, exploitation and exclusion, empowerment and integration | |
Poverty, violence, and environmental destruction and the search for equity, peace, and sustainability | |
Seeking an Equitable World: Issues of Inequality | |
Class: A World of Rich and Poor | |
Dateline: Cantrall, Illinois; Mojokerto, Indonesia.Inequalities Between and Among Nations | |
Theories of Class and Economy | |
An Old Argument: Modernization and Dependency Theories | |
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Humanizing Development | |
Work: The Global Assembly Line | |
Dateline Benin (slave ship); Seattle | |
The Division of Labor | |
The New Frontier | |
Made by Small Hands | |
Free Trade and Fair Trade | |
Race to the Bottom.Ordering the World Market | |
Reversing the Race to the Bottom | |
Gender and Family: Overburdened Women and Displaced Men | |
Dateline: Benton Harbor (single parenting) | |
Nietzsche undone: from superman to super mom | |
Tired, stressed women and angry, alienated men | |
Locked In and Shut Out | |
Global family changes | |
Feminist theory and world feminist movements | |
Education: Access and Success | |
Dateline: Congo and Pakistan | |
The Foundations of Education | |
And who will care for the children?Education Around the World | |
Opening Doors, Opening Minds | |
Seeking A Peaceful World: Issues of Conflict | |
Crime: Fear in the Streets | |
Dateline: Columbia | |
Seeking security | |
Street crime and youth violence in the US and around the world | |
Incarceration around the world | |
This cokes for you: international drug trade | |
International crime cartels | |
War: States of Terror | |
Dateline: Angola, civil war | |
How states made war and how war made states | |
Empires in Collision | |
From Limited War to Total War to Cold War | |
From world war to regional conflict | |
The Global Arms Trade | |
Military expenditures | |
Mills and Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex | |
Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
Heroes or humanitarians: What then should the military do?The last great war? Theories of peace and conflict | |
Democracy and Human Rights: Having Our Say | |
Dateline: Sudan (lost boys, lost girls) | |
From bands to states | |
Nationalism and independence | |
Democracy and its alternatives: forms of government | |
ODonnell and authoritarianism versus democracy | |
Is God a democrat?Campaign problems: Germany, Mexico, US | |
Guerilla movements | |
Sri Lanka and Columbia | |
Central America | |
Freedom fights and terrorists | |
Soldier boys (and girls): Child soldiersAfter the repression: the return of Pinochet, South African Truth Commission, Argentine Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,UN Statement on human rights | |
US policy from Carter to Bush | |
Tiananmen Square and the China debate | |
International law and the world court | |
Ethnicity and Religion: Deep Roots and Unholy Hate | |
Dateline: Pakistan | |
The links between ethnicity, religion and power | |
Ethno-religious tensions and conflict in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, India, Indonesia and New York | |
Huntington and the clash of civilizations | |
Barber on Jihad and McWorld: Resurgent fundamentalism | |
Horowitz and ethnic competition theory | |
The God of the poor: Liberation theory | |
Identity and international terrorism | |
Terror, counter-terror and state terror | |
Seeking A Sustainable World: Environmental Issues | |
Dateline Arizona (Mesa) | |
Ethiopian shoeshine boys | |
The urban millennium: Worldwide urbanization | |
Central place theory | |
Sprawl and hyper-urbanization | |
The global ghetto: spread of shanty towns | |
Seeking livable cities | |
Population and Health: Only the Poor Die Young | |
Dateline Mexico: AIDSThe population bomb debate | |
Demographic transition theory | |
Life expectancy and infant mortality | |
Controversies over population control: China and India, the Cairo conference and the Vatican | |
Controversies over health care reform | |
Chinas barefoot doctors | |
Technology and Energy: Panacea or Pandoras Box?Braz | |
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