Global Problems : The Search for Equity, Peace, and Sustainability
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9780205343928
- ISBN10:
0205343929
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006-01-01
- Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary
Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace, and Sustainability examines the various dimensions of globalization and the social problems of inequality, war and violence, and environmental sustainability that are occurring on a global scale. Clear writing and vivid, current examples help readers to better understand their roles as global citizens. The book is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the challenges of global inequalities: in life chances, wages and work, gender and education. Part II focuses on conflict and violence at all levels: from crime to politics, terrorism to war. Part III focuses on the issue of sustainability and the problems of urbanization, crowding, and environmental destruction.
Table of Contents
| 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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