Contemporary Readings in Globalization

SECTION 1: A CHANGING WORLD 1. Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay. - Pranab Bardhan. Journal of South Asian Development. Vol. 1 No. 1 2006. 2. The Wal-Mart You Don't Know. - Charles Fishman. Fast Company. December 2003. 3. The Radical Thesis on Globalization and the Case of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. - Steve Ellner. Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 29 No. 6. 2002. 4. A Coffee Connoisseur on a Mission. - Michaele Weissman. The New York Times. June 22, 2006. 5. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. - David Korten. Yes! Magazine. Summer 2006. SECTION 2: INEQUALITY AND POVERTY 6. Always With Us: Jeffrey Sachs plan to eliminate poverty. - John Cassidy. New Yorker. April 11, 2005. 7. Born into Bondage. - Paul Raffaele. Smithsonian. September 2005. 8. Pulling Rickshaws in the City of Dhaka. - Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen. Environment and Urbanization. Vol. 17 No. 2 2002. 9. The Good Samaritans: Melinda Gates, Bono, and Bill Gates. - Nancy Gibbs. Time. January 2, 2006. 10. Violencia Femicida: Violence Against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis. - Mercedes Olivera. Latin American Perspectives Vol. 33, No. 2. 2006. 11. How One Company Brought Hope to the Poor. - Marco Visscher. Ode Magazine. April 2005. SECTION 3: EDUCATION 12. The Right to Education in a Globalized World. - Ronald Lindahl. Journal of Studies in International Education. Vol. 10 No. 1 Spring 2006. 13. Breaking Down Notions of Us and Them: Answering Globalization with Global Learning. - Angelo Carfagna. FDU Magazine. Spring 2006. 14. A Would-Be Pilot, Hitting Turbulence on the Ground. - Michael Wines. The New York Times. April 30, 2005. SECTION 4: CONFLICT 15. France: The Riots and the Republic. - Graham Murray. Race and Class Vol. 47 No. 2. 2006. 16. Torture: The Struggle Over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era. - Rosemary Foot. International Relations, Vol. 20, No 2. 2006. 17. Peace and Democracy for Haiti: A UN Mission Impossible? - David M. Malone. International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 2. 2006. 18. Globalization and the Study of International Security. - Victor D. Cha. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 3. 2000. 19. The Biggest Failure: A new approach to help the world's internally displaced people. - Ray Wilkinson. Vol 4 No 141. 2006. SECTION 5: HEALTH 20. Outsourcing Your Heart. - Unmesh Kher. Time Magazine. May 21, 2006. 21. Rumor, Fear and Fatigue Hinder Final Push to End Polio. - Celia W. Dugger and Donald. G. McNeil, Jr. The New York Times. March 20, 2006. 22. AIDS and Health-Policy Responses in European Welfare States. - Monika Steffen. Journal of European Social Policy Vol. 14. 2004 23. US Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations. - Celia W. Dugger. The New York Times. May 24, 2006. SECTION 6: ENERGY 24. Exploitation of Energy Resources in Africa. - Julia Maxted. Journal of Developing Societies Vol. 22, No. 1. 2006. 25. While Washington Slept. - Mark Hertsgaard. Vanity Fair. May 2006. 26. Some Convenient Truths: stopping global warming. - Gregg Easterbrook. The Atlantic. September 2006. SECTION 7: Shah M. Tarzi, Sociology Department, Bradley University, 1501 West Bradley Avenue, Peoria, IL 61625, ENVIRONMENT 27. A Financial Framework for Reducing Slums: Lessons from Experience in Latin America. - Bruce Ferguson and Jesus Navarrete. Environment and Urbanization, 2003. SAGE Publications. 28. Tropic of Answer: Ecotourism. - Charles Munn. Grist Magazine. April 14, 2006. 29. Strangers in the Forest. - Lawrence Osborne. New Yorker. April 18, 2005 30. In American Waters. - Scott Sernau. IU International News. Spring 2006.