Globalization Redux: New Name, Same Game

by Joseph D. Tullbane III (Contribution by), Sanjay Paul (Contribution by), Mario von der Ruhr (Contribution by), Hiroyuki Okamoto (Contribution by), Wendy E. Scattergood (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761829225
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Tom Conner is Associate Professor of Modern Foreign Languages and Donald B. King Scholar of French Studies at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin.

Ikuko Torimoto received her Doctor of Education from Western Michigan University. She is Associate Professor of Japanese at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction: Globalization Redux: New Name, Same Game
Chapter 4 Globalization, Development, and Wages
Chapter 5 Foreign Direct Investment and Trends in Modern Economics: Fact vs. Fiction
Chapter 6 The IT Revolution and Business: an International Comparison
Chapter 7 The Social Justice Implications of Global Warming
Chapter 8 The United States and the United Nations: Unilateralism in an Era of Globalization
Chapter 9 One Year After the Kim-Kim Talks: North Korea and International Security
Chapter 10 The French Challenge to Globalization
Chapter 11 The Globalization of Education
Chapter 12 Leisure and Tourism and the Development of New Urban Spaces in the Global Village
Chapter 13 National Poems, Global Themes: "Duty" in the Epic Tradition
Chapter 14 Beyond Frontiers: Will Nelson Lovatt in Late Nineteenth-Century China and Korea
Chapter 15 The Importance of Ethnic Studies in the Curriculum: The Case of Japanese-Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 16 Primacy of Practice in Shingon Buddhism at Mount Koya, Japan: Four Ritual and Three "Bodies'
Chapter 17 Contributors