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Annual editions : global issues / Editor, Robert M. Jackson

Contributor(s): Publication details: Duduque : McGraw-Hill, c2006Edition: 21st editionDescription: xviii, 221 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0073112178
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 658.05 ANN
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UNIT 1. GLOABL ISSUES IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY: AN OVERVIEW
1. A special moment in history

2. America's sticky power

3. Five meta-trends changing the world

4. Holy orders: religious opposition to modern states

UNIT 2. POPULATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION
5. The big crunch

6. Scary strains

7. Bitter sweet harvest: The debate over genetically modified crops

UNIT 3. THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE UTILIZATION
8. Deflating the world's bubbles economy

9. Shifting the pain: World's resources feed California's growing appetite

10. Water scarcity could overwhelm the next generation

UNIT 4. POLITICAL ECONOMY
12. The complexities and contradictions of globalization

13. Three cheers for global capitalism

14. The five wars of globalization

15. Will globalization go bankrupt

16. Soccer vs Mcworld

17. Croesus and Ceasar

18. Where the money went

19. Render unto Ceasar: Putin and the Oligarchs

20. Is Chile a neoliberal success

21. The fall of the house of Saud

22. Thirty years of petro-politics
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