Globalization redux : New name, same game / edited by Tom Conner and Ikuko Torimoto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conner, Tom, 1955-

Torimoto, Ikuko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

vi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas : University Press of America, 2004.

Summary:

This volume is a peer-reviewed collection of essays submitted by participants of two joint conferences on the theme of globalization. The essays collected in this volume deal with a wide variety of subjects related to globalization, ranging from the social sciences to the humanities. Globalization Redux contributes to a better understanding of globalization and its ramifications in a host of domains.

Contents:

Introduction: Globalization Redux: New Name, Same Game / Tom Conner 1

Globalization, Development, and Wages / Sanjay Paul 35

Foreign Direct Investment and Trends in Modern Economics: Fact vs. Fiction / Marc von der Ruhr 45

The IT Revolution and Business: An International Comparison / Hiroyuki Okamoto 59

The Social Justice Implications of Global Warming / Wendy E. Scattergood 67

The United States and the United Nations: Unilateralism in an Era of Globalization / Gratzia Villarroel 109

One Year After the Kim-Kim Talks: North Korea and International Security / Tomohiko Kawaguchi 133

The French Challenge to Globalization / Tom Conner 145

The Globalization of Education / Joseph D. Tullbane, III 157

Leisure and Tourism and the Development of New Urban Spaces in the Global Village / Meiko Murayama 171

National Poems, Global Themes: "Duty" in the Epic Tradition / Edward Risden 183

Beyond Frontiers: William Nelson Lovatt in Late Nineteenth-Century China and Korea / Wayne Patterson 195

The Importance of Ethnic Studies in the Curriculum: The Case of Japanese-Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century / Ikuko Torimoto 203

Primacy of Practice in Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, Japan: Four Rituals and Three "Bodies" / Buchiro Watanabe 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761829229

OCLC:

56431222