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A wide-ranging and original history of globalization, examining how
it has developed and what it means for the future Since humans
migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have
found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In
this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of
traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as
they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization
is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence
that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with
increasing speed and ease. In the end, globalization-from the lone
adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions
of great empires-is the product of myriad aspirations and
apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives:
what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of
years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. Chanda
reviews and illustrates the economic and technological forces at
play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking
discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global
world.
The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship
between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the
U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both
central components of the process of globalization. On the other
hand, it appears to be resolutely determined not to live within an
institutional framework of globalized authority. As the world's
only superpower, the United States is often perceived as
championing its own narrow national sovereignty-for example, by
opposing the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court,
and by taking action in Iraq outside the auspices of the UN. The
book treats the paradox of American exceptionalism and
globalization as a "local" happening within the broader process of
globalization. These essays analyze the ways in which the USA has
both played a role in, and reacted against, emerging present-day
globalization. Examples are drawn from the fields of history,
political science, cultural studies, and economics, making this
collection one of the very few to link together so diverse a group
of authors and approaches to the subject of global USA.
The Paradox of a Global USA describes the vexed relationship
between the United States and globalization. On the one hand, the
U.S. has vociferously promoted modernization and open markets, both
central components of the process of globalization. On the other
hand, it appears to be resolutely determined not to live within an
institutional framework of globalized authority. As the world's
only superpower, the United States is often perceived as
championing its own narrow national sovereignty-for example, by
opposing the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court,
and by taking action in Iraq outside the auspices of the UN. The
book treats the paradox of American exceptionalism and
globalization as a "local" happening within the broader process of
globalization. These essays analyze the ways in which the USA has
both played a role in, and reacted against, emerging present-day
globalization. Examples are drawn from the fields of history,
political science, cultural studies, and economics, making this
collection one of the very few to link together so diverse a group
of authors and approaches to the subject of global USA.
Here, an agenda-setting team of experts looks at how terrorism can
be understood, contained, and ultimately defeated. September 11
marked the beginning of a new era - an age of terror in which
counter-terrorism will be one of the highest priorities of national
governments and international institutions. How we proceed in this
new war largely depends on the answer to a prior question: what
exactly happened here and why? In The Age of Terror, eight
historians and policymakers address this question and examine the
considerations and objectives of policy decisions in post-September
11 America.
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