Understanding globalization : the social consequences of political, economic, and environmental change
A study of how political and economic changes affect people's lives in different settings around the world. It argues that globalization is not completely new, but builds on international institutions created just after World War II. This new edition is updated and contains five new chapters.
Print Book, English, 2002
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Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., 2002
xi, 379 pages ; 24 cm
9780742519978, 9780742519985, 074251997X, 0742519988
1107155547
Chapter One: Theories of Globalization; Chapter Two: Globalizing Production in the United States, WesternEurope, and Japan; Chapter Three: Dollar Devaluations; Chapter Four: Fighting Inflation; Chapter Five: Debt Crisis and Globalization; Chapter Six: Falling Commodity Prices; Chapter Seven: Technology, Food, and Hunger; Chapter Eight: Global Climate Change; Chapter Nine: Free Trade Agreements; Chapter Ten: The Emergence of a Global Environmental Movement; Chapter Eleven: Dictatorship and Democracy; Chapter Twelve: Division and War in Yugoslavia; Chapter Thirteen: Mafias and the Drug Trade; Index; About the Author.
Previous ed.: 1997
Includes index