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www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/about.html
"The Globalization Website," created in 2000 by Frank Lechner, Associate
Professor of Sociology at Emory University, is a good place to start
because the site has a number of resources and links for anyone who wants
clear definitions, globalization issues in the recent news as well as a
sense of the parameters of the debates on globalization.
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Links edited by
Michael Kuelker
SCC English |
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http://web.amnesty.org/pages/ec-index-eng
Amnesty International’s materials on globalization and human rights issues
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"Ah, yes,
globalization!
It’s a marvelous
excuse for many things."
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R. M. Solow, recipient of a
Nobel Prize for
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www.thomaslfriedman.com/lexusolivetree.htm
With synopses, reviews and links, this site is organized around Thomas
Friedman's pro-globalization tome, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. A
columnist for the New York Times, Friedman is one of the most
vigorous and widely read advocates of the benefits of globalization. His
argument overall is that globalization--symbolized by the Lexus and "the
drive for sustenance, improvement, prosperity and modernization"--is the
central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many
individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally
mattered to them--typified by the olive tree, which "represents everything
that roots us, anchors us, identifies us and locates us in the world -
whether it be belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a
religion or, most of all, a place called home."
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