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Global issues : 06/07 / Robert M. Jackson, editor.

Contributor(s): Jackson, Robert MMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Annual editionsPublication details: Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, c2007. Edition: 22nd edDescription: iii, 205 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN: 0073516031; 9780073516035Other title: Annual editions : Global issues 06/07 [Cover title]Subject(s): Global issues | Civilization, Modern -- 20th century | Social prediction | Social problems -- History -- 20th centuryLOC classification: HN17.5 | .G56 2007
Contents:
GLOBAL ISSUES IN THE 21st CENTURY: A special moment in history / Bill McKibben -- It's a flat world after all / Thomas L. Friedman -- Can extreme poverty be eliminated? / Jeffery D. Sachs -- Success without victory / James Fallows -- Five meta-trends changing the world / David Pearce Snyder -- The ends of the world as we know them / Jared Diamond -- POPULATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION: The big crunch / Jeffrey Kluger -- Scary strains / Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler -- Bittersweet harvest: the debate over genetically modified crops -- THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES UTILIZATION: Deflating the world's bubble economy / Lester R. Brown -- Shifting the pain: world's resources feed California's growing appetite / Tom Knudson -- Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows / Jonathan Leake -- POLITICAL ECONOMY: Globalization and its contents / Peter Marber -- The world is spiky / Richard Florida -- The five wars of Globalization / Mois�es Naim -- Will globalization go bankrupt? / Michael Pettis -- Soccer vs. McWorld / Franklin Foer -- America's sticky power / Walter Russell Mead -- Where the money went / James S. Henry -- Political graft: the Russian way / Marshall I. Goldman -- Is Chile a neoliberal success? / James M. Cypher -- India's hype, hope, and hazards / Mahmood H. Butt -- What's wrong with this picture? / Mark Crispin Miller -- The fall of the House of Saud / Robert Baer -- The breaking point / Peter Maass -- Nuclear now! / Peter Schwarts and Spencer Reiss -- Looking into the sun / David H. Freedman --
CONFLICT: Our greatest threat: the coming nuclear crisis / Douglas Roche -- Lifting the veil: understanding the roots of Islamic militancy / Henry Munson -- Blowback revisited / Peter Bergen and Alec Reynolds -- Holy orders: Religious opposition to modern states -- COOPERATION: Strategies for world peace: the view of the UN Secretary-General / Kofi Annan -- Peace in our time -- The ultimate crop insurance / Janet Raloff -- Teamwork urged on bird flu / David Brown -- Medicine without doctors / Geoffrey Cowley -- VALUES AND VISIONS: Humanity's common values: seeking a positive future / Wendell Bell -- Women's rights: not just for Westerners / Azar Nafisi -- The Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus -- America's looming creativity crisis / Richard Florida -- What lurks in its soul? / David A. Vise -- Women waging peace / Swanee Hunt and Cristina Posa.
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Includes index.

GLOBAL ISSUES IN THE 21st CENTURY: A special moment in history / Bill McKibben -- It's a flat world after all / Thomas L. Friedman -- Can extreme poverty be eliminated? / Jeffery D. Sachs -- Success without victory / James Fallows -- Five meta-trends changing the world / David Pearce Snyder -- The ends of the world as we know them / Jared Diamond -- POPULATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION: The big crunch / Jeffrey Kluger -- Scary strains / Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler -- Bittersweet harvest: the debate over genetically modified crops -- THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES UTILIZATION: Deflating the world's bubble economy / Lester R. Brown -- Shifting the pain: world's resources feed California's growing appetite / Tom Knudson -- Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows / Jonathan Leake -- POLITICAL ECONOMY: Globalization and its contents / Peter Marber -- The world is spiky / Richard Florida -- The five wars of Globalization / Mois�es Naim -- Will globalization go bankrupt? / Michael Pettis -- Soccer vs. McWorld / Franklin Foer -- America's sticky power / Walter Russell Mead -- Where the money went / James S. Henry -- Political graft: the Russian way / Marshall I. Goldman -- Is Chile a neoliberal success? / James M. Cypher -- India's hype, hope, and hazards / Mahmood H. Butt -- What's wrong with this picture? / Mark Crispin Miller -- The fall of the House of Saud / Robert Baer -- The breaking point / Peter Maass -- Nuclear now! / Peter Schwarts and Spencer Reiss -- Looking into the sun / David H. Freedman --

CONFLICT: Our greatest threat: the coming nuclear crisis / Douglas Roche -- Lifting the veil: understanding the roots of Islamic militancy / Henry Munson -- Blowback revisited / Peter Bergen and Alec Reynolds -- Holy orders: Religious opposition to modern states -- COOPERATION: Strategies for world peace: the view of the UN Secretary-General / Kofi Annan -- Peace in our time -- The ultimate crop insurance / Janet Raloff -- Teamwork urged on bird flu / David Brown -- Medicine without doctors / Geoffrey Cowley -- VALUES AND VISIONS: Humanity's common values: seeking a positive future / Wendell Bell -- Women's rights: not just for Westerners / Azar Nafisi -- The Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus -- America's looming creativity crisis / Richard Florida -- What lurks in its soul? / David A. Vise -- Women waging peace / Swanee Hunt and Cristina Posa.

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