| Research &
Commentary |
| After
Cancun: Possibilities for a New North-South Grand Bargain on Trade |
Foreign Policy In Focus Policy Report by Thomas
I. Palley, Director of the Open Society Institute's Globalization
Reform Project (2003) |
 ASDA
Wal-Mart: the Alternative Report |
War on Want's
report on "how relentless pursuit of the lowest possible prices has had a negative impact
on the company's employees as well as its suppliers" (Sept. 2005; PDF format) |
| The
Box That Makes the World Go Round |
Alexander Jung on the history & the future of containers that "have become the
building blocks of the global village" (Der Spiegel, Nov. 25, 2005) |
| Can
Extreme Poverty be Eliminated? |
Jeffrey Sachs
on the current state of global poverty & how the Millenium Development Goals may be achieved (Scientific American, Sept. 2005; PDF format) |
| China,
India and the Doubling of the Global Labor Force: Who Pays the
Price of Globalization? |
Harvard University
economist Richard Freeman on consequences for workers of the massive
increase in the global supply of labor while the supply of capital
remains virtually unchanged (ZNet, Aug. 30, 2005) |
| Competing
in a Flat World |
Charlie Rose's
interview with Esther Dyson & John Doerr "at the TechNet Innovation Summit about the implications of the flat world, popularized
in Tom Friedmans book "The World is Flat," U.S. competitiveness and where the Internet is heading" (ZDNet.com, Nov. 16, 2005) |
| A
Conversation with Jared Diamond |
Tom Laichas'
interview with the author of Guns, Germs, and Steel & Collapse: How Some Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (World History Connected, May 2005) |
| The
Debate on Globalization, Poverty and Inequality: Why Measurement
Matters |
Martin Ravallion's World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper (Apr. 2003; PDF format) |
| Deliver
Us from Wal-Mart? |
Jeff M. Sellers on the ethics of the retail
giant from the Christian perspective (Christianity Today,
May 2005) |
| E-mail
Debate: Do Corporations Rule? |
From BBC News
series on "Who Runs Your World": Walden Bello & Philippe Legrain debating "whether global corporations are the most powerful beasts in the jungle" (Sept. 2005) |
| Encyclopedia
of Globalization: Trade Routes |
Essay by T.
Matthew Ciolek of Australian National University on the emergence & expansion of trade and supply routes, postal routes & signals routes from 3500 BCE to 2000 CE |
| Globalization,
Poverty, and Inequality since 1980 |
David Dollar's World Bank Policy Research Working
Paper (June 2004) |
| Dreams
of Empire |
Tony Judt's review of 9 books on the American
empire & the New World Order (New York Review of Books,
Nov. 4, 2004) |
| Economic
Globalisation and Equity in East Asia |
Paper by Siow Yue Chia (Global Development Network
(GDN) , 2003; PDF format) |
| Economic
Policy Institute |
"a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that
seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a
prosperous and fair economy" -- research focused on 5 areas:
Living standards/labor markets; Government and the economy; Globalization
and trade; Education; Retirement policy |
| Economic
Reform in this Era of Globalization - 16 country cases |
A G-20 case study (Oct. 2003; PDF format) |
| Effects
of Financial Globalization on Developing Countries: Some Empirical
Evidence |
IMF paper by E. Prasad et al. (2002; PDF format) |
| Europe
Loses Ground: Cultural Media from the Perspective of the Internet |
Thierry Chervel on the failure of European media & intellectuals
to make use of the Internet as a public sphere & hiding behind
an anti-globalization critique (Eurozine, June 2004) |
| A
Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All |
Report by the International Labour Organization's
World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (Feb. 2004) |
| The
Future of Global Governance |
Joseph E. Stiglitz's working paper assessing
democratic deficiencies in global governance & proposing reforms
(Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) , Columbia University, Sept.
2004; PDF format) |
| The
Germans: Fahrvergnügen vs. Globalization |
Der Spiegel special on the German auto
industry in the context of international competition (June 2, 2005) |
| A
Global Look to the Local: Replacing Economic Globalisation with
Democratic Localisation |
Colin Hines's paper seeking "to identify
the forms of economic organisation that might best support the institutionalisation
of democratic participation in decisions on environment and development" (International
Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2003; PDF format) |
| Globalisation & the
Asia-Pacific Revival |
Paper by Arne Bigsten of Goteborg University
(Nov. 2003, PDF format) |
| The
Globalism Institute |
Research institute of Australia's RMIT University "engaged
research into globalisation, transnationalism, nationalism and cultural
diversity": documents & publications; links; activities |
| Globalisation:
the Forgotten Strategy |
Pankaj Ghemawat on arbitrage to exploit differences
as a global strategy for companies (Harvard Business Review,
Jan. 21, 2004) |
| Globalisation,
Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment Versus Productivity Views |
Paper prepared for the NBER Globalization Workshop
by William Easterly, New York University (2004; PDF format) |
| Globalization
and Disease: The Case of SARS |
Brookings Institution Working Paper by Jong-Wha
Lee & Warwick J. McKibbin, (May 20, 2003; PDF format) |
| Globalization,
Technology and Asian Development |
Joseph Stiglitz's paper on the economic dimensions
of globalization, with special reference on Asia (Asian Development
Review, 20:2 ( 2003); PDF format) |
| Globalization:
The Agent of Good Governance? |
Special report published by the Woodrow Wilson
Center's Asia Program (Aug. 2001) |
| Globalization:
The New World: "We Should Expect Upheavals" |
Interview
with Henry Paulson, CEO of Goldman Sachs, about "global imbalances, the rise of China and German pessimism" (Der Spiegel, Nov. 21, 2005) |
| Globalization & Its
Challenges |
Revised version of the Eli lecture delivered
by Stanley Fischer at the American Economic Association meetings
in Jan. 2003 (PDF format) |
| Globalization
and Natural-Resource Conflicts |
Scott Pegg's essay in Naval War College
Review (Autumn 2003; PDF) |
| Globalization
and Poverty |
International Labour Organization paper by Nomaan
Majid (2003; PDF format) |
| Globalization & the
Impact on Asia |
Keynote speech by H.E. Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi
at the Harvard Asia Business Conference (Feb. 2-3, 2001) |
| Globalization
and the Informal Economy: How Global Trade and Investment Impact
on the Working Poor |
Marilyn Carr & Martha Alter Chen's working
paper for International Labour Office (2002; PDF format) |
| Globalization
Inequality Group |
A Brookings Institution forum on the relationship
between globalization & inequality, with downloadable academic
papers |
| Globalization
Research Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Research center with "special focus on
globalization and the Asia-Pacific region": signature projects
including Globalization Curriculum Project & GRC Health Projects;
resources including GRC staff & fellows publications, globalilzation
in the news, & links & readings on terrorism |
| The Globalization
Reseach Network (GRN) |
"brings together the University of Hawaii
at Manoa, the University of South Florida, the University of California
at Los Angeles, and the George Washington University into a collective
arrangement that permits each to pursue globalization research while
pursuing a particularized area expertise": research & activities;
featured projects; learning about globalization; globalization links |
The
Great Reverse
|
3 part series on "the projected Asian-leaning
shift in the global balance of power" (YaleGlobal, Sept. 2004)
Part I on
China & India's rise, by Clyde Prestowitz
Part II on Southeast Asia & the U.S. having to adjust to China's
rise, by Marvin Ott
Part III on
burgeoning Sino-Indian trade ties, by Anna Greenspan |
| Institute
of Development Studies: Globalisation Team Research |
"policy-related research and advisory agenda
... focused on spreading the gains from globalisation" |
| Is
America Losing Its Edge? |
Adam Segal's commentary on the globalization
of research & development & Asia's challenge to America's
technological dominance in the global economy (Foreign Affairs,
Nov.-Dec. 2004) |
| The
Late Developers' Trek |
George Zhibin Gu on opportunities & problems
of late developers such as China & India (Asia Times,
May 4, 2005) |
| Letter
from China: The Cross-pollination of India and China |
Howard W.
French on interpenetration of the world's emerging economic powers
as the next wave in globalization, as exemplified by "huge new investments by India and China in each other's booming economies" (International Herald Tribune, Nov. 9, 2005) |
| The
Millennium Development Goals and Conservation: Managing Nature's
Wealth for Society's Health |
Volume of essays edited by Dilys Roe on how
to achieve both sustainable development & eradication of poverty
(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED),
Nov. 2004; PDF format) |
| The
Miracles of Globalization |
Arvind Panagariya's review of Martin Wolf's Why
Globalization Works (Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct.
2004) |
| Myths
and Corrections |
Will Hutton's review of "two very different
approaches to the globalisation debate in Martin Wolf's Why Globalisation
Works and David Held's Global Covenant" (Guardian
Unlimited, July 10, 2004) |
| NGOs:
Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor |
Sebastian Mallaby's commentary on "media-savvy
Western activists ... staging protests to block projects that allegedly
exploit the developing world" (Foreign Policy, Sept./Oct.
2004; free registration required) |
| Our
House of Cards |
Andrew Leonard's
review of Barry Lynn's End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation, which predicts an imminent economic disaster resulting from globalization (Salon, Sept. 15; 2005) |
| Political
Dimenstions of Globalization and Equity in East Asia |
Wilfrido Villacorta's 2003 paper for Global
Development Network (GDN) (PDF format) |
| Promoting
Fair Globalization in Textiles and Clothing in a Post-MFA Environment |
ILO's "Report
for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Promoting Fair Globalization
in Textiles and Clothing in a Post-MFA Environment," with tables & graphics (2005; PDF format) |
| Q&A:
Jagdish Bhagwati on Trade |
Interview of a leading advocate of free trade
(Council on Foreign Relations, Jan. 16, 2003; free registration with New
York Times required) |
| Santa
Clausewitz, a Minor Chinese God |
Spengler's commentary on the emergence of a
Sino-US duopoly, "the most disruptive force in world economic
life since cheap British textiles crushed India's weaving industry" (Asia
Times, Dec. 21, 2004) |
| Soccer
Vs. McWorld |
Franklin Foer's essay on the limits of globalization
as revealed by the most global of sports (Foreign Policy,
Jan./Feb. 2004) |
| Spreading
Democracy: The World's Most Dangerous Idea |
Eric J. Hobsbawm arguing that the campaign to
spread democracy is dangerous & doomed to failure (Foreign
Policy, Sept./Oct. 2004) |
| Testing
the Currents of Multipolarity |
Michael A. Weinstein on the "tendency toward
a multipolar configuration of world politics" (EurasiaNet Eurasia
Insight, Dec. 16, 2004) |
| 'Wake
Up and Face the Flat Earth' |
YaleGlobal's interview with Thomas L. Friedman,
author of The World Is Flat, on "the flattening of
the global playing field and the forces that are doing it" & the
death of the anti-globalization movement (Apr. 18, 2005) |
| The
Wal-Mart Effect |
Los Angeles Times special series (Nov.
2003) |
| What
Are the Right Institutions in a Globalizing World?: And .. Can
We Keep Them If We've Found Them? |
Roumeen Islam on the debate over degree & area
of standardization of institutions with increasing trade integration
(World Bank Working Paper, Nov. 2004; PDF format) |
| What
Is Globalization Doing to Your Business? |
A Boston Consulting Group report, with Low-Cost
Country (LCC) Matrix comparing the speed & magniture of the migration
of selected industries to LCCs (Feb. 2004; PDF format) |
| Whose
Debt?: Globalisation and Whitefacing in Asia |
Patricia Goon & Allison Craven's paper in Intersections:
Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (Issue 9,
Aug. 2003) |
| Women
Working in Global Supply Chains: Are Retailers Trading away Workers
Rights? |
Summary of
an Oxfam report on "how big brand companies and retailers are driving down employment conditions
for women workers ... [by} exploit[ing] their position at the top
of global supply chains to squeeze their suppliers to deliver" (Jan. 2004) |
| The
World Is Round |
John Gray's
review of Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (The New York Review of Books, Aug. 11, 2005) |
| The
World's First Multinational |
Nick Robins on the lessons for today from the
history of the East India Company as the first "imperial corporation" (New
Statesman, Dec. 13, 2004) |
| A
Year of Living Dangerously |
Francis Fukuyama
drawing on Olivier Roy's Globalized Islam & commenting on radical Islam as a product not of the assertion of traditional
values of Islam, but of the "deterritorialization" of Islam for Muslim immigrants & their children in Western societies (OpinionJournal, Nov. 2, 2005) |
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