Controversies in Globalization : Contending Approaches to International Relations.
Debate style readers can be powerful teaching tools, but only if the readings really speak to one another; otherwise, the crux of the debate is lost on students. Peter M. Haas and John M. Hird's Controversies in Globalization solves this issue by inviting 17 pairs of scholars and practitioners...
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Washington DC :
SAGE Publications,
2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- CONTROVERSIES IN GLOBALIZATION-FRONT COVER; CONTROVERSIES IN GLOBALIZATION; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; About The Editors; About The Contributors; PREFACE; How The Book Is Organized; Acknowledgments; UNDERSTANDING GLOBALIZATION; What's New About Globalization?; Technological Innovation; Expanded Economic Interdependence; Trade; Investment; Demographic Dispersion; Political Diversification; Environmental Degradation (And Concern); Ideational Convergence; Globalization's Effects; Power Shifts; Shifting Political Identities; Complexity of Decision Making; Perspectives On Globalization
- Political Realism: L'état EternelMarket Liberalism: Swords into Stock Shares; Skepticism: Accentuate the Positive and Adjust the Negative; Radicalism: Challenge the Dominant Paradigm; Cosmopolitan Transformationalism: Jazz and Constant Improvisation; Conclusion; Discussion Questions; Notes; CHAPTER 1: TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: DOES TRADE LIBERALIZATION CONTRIBUTE TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY?; Discussion Questions; YES: David Dollar, U.S. Treasury Department; Growing Integration Between North And South; The Link From Integration To Growth; China; India; Vietnam; Uganda; Conclusion
- NotesNO: Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics and Political Science; Givens; Free Trade Theory; Evidence for Free Trade; New Trade Theory; New New Trade Theory; Theories of Increasing Returns, Multiple Equilibria, and Spatial Structure; Industrial Policy And Inter-State Competition; Evidence; Optimal Trade Policy; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER 2: TRADE AND EQUALITY: DOES FREE TRADE PROMOTE ECONOMIC EQUALITY?; Discussion Questions; Note; YES: L. Alan Winters, University of Sussex; Ground Clearing; Trade and Inter-Country Inequality; Trade and Intra-Country Inequality
- Intra-Country Inequality: The Direct Effects On HouseholdsTaxation; Prices and Markets; Factor Markets; Conclusion; Notes; NO: Kate Vyborny and Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development; Free Trade Increases Income; The Role of Relative Inequality; Economic Theory and Economic Realities; Adjustment Costs; Advantages for Countries with Most Productive Assets; Costs of Market Failures on the Poor; Bias against the Poor in Global Economic Rules; Solution: Complementary "Fair Growth" Policies; A Global Social Contract; Notes; CHAPTER 3: POVERTY: CAN FOREIGN AID REDUCE POVERTY?
- Discussion QuestionsYES: Jeffrey D. Sachs, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Development Assistance As A Tool In Promoting Economic Development; U.S. Commitments to Economic Development and Poverty Reduction; Current Levels of U.S. Official Development Assistance in Comparative Perspective; Private Development Assistance; What Works and What Doesn't Work With ODA; Modernizing U.S. Development Assistance In The Twenty-First Century; The Goals; The Technologies; The Delivery Systems; The Financing; The Structure of U.S. Development Assistance