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Taking sides : clashing views on controversial global issues / selected, edited and with introductions by James E. Harf & Mark Owen Lombardi .

Contributor(s): Publication details: Guilford, Conn. : Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, c2005. Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xxvi, 348 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780073111636
  • 0073111635
  • 9780073111636
Other title:
  • Clashing views on controversial global issues
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial global issuesDDC classification:
  • 363.73874 22 TAK
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Contents;

Part 1: Global population
Issue 1. Should the international community attempt to curb population growth in the developing world?
Issue 2. Is rapid urbanization in the developing world a major problem?
Issue 3. Is global aging in developed world a major problem?

Part 2: Global resources and the environment
Issue 4. Do environmentalists overstate their case?
Issue 5. is environmental degradation worsening?
Issue 6. Should the world continue to rely on oil as a major source of energy?
Issue 7: Will the world be able to feed itself in the foreseeable future?
Issue 8: Is the threat of global warming real?
Issue 9: Is the threat of a global water shortage real?

Part 3: Expanding global forces and movements
Issue 10: Can the global community "win" the drug war?
Issue 11: Is globalization a positive development for the world community?
Issue 12: Will the digital/computer world pose a threat to our individual privacy?
Issue 13: Is the world a victim of American cultural imperialism?
Issue 14: Do international financial institutions and multinational corporations exploit the developing world?
Issue 15: Is the transnational media hurting global society?

Part 4: The new global security dilemma
Issue 16: Are we headed toward a nuclear 9/11?
Issue 17: Is preemption a variable policy option in today's global security environment?
Issue 18: Are civil liberties being compromised in the war against terrorism?
Issue 19: Are cultural and ethnic wars the defining dimensions of twenty-first century conflict?

Latest issue consulted: 3rd ed. (2005).

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