Saving globalization why globalization and democracy offer the best hope for progress, peace and development
Globalization is not new, nor is it a policy, it's a process that has existed as long as man looked over the horizon, traveled and traded. It can't be stopped but it can be slowed. It came to a grinding halt in August 1914 and the Marxist detour cost millions of lives and lost three genera...
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Singapore
John Wiley & Sons (Asia)
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Accelerating change and the threat of de-globalization
- The rise and rise of China
- Enter India
- The Islamic world : the need for mutual respect
- Early consensus government
- Democracy--a universal impulse?
- The gift of Greece
- "Civis Romanus sum" : Roman citizenship and Roman law
- The glorious revolution : freedom in the seventeenth century
- Magna Carta and beyond
- Revolution and reform : 1775-1914
- Modern international institutions
- The need for good governance
- Openness
- Free trade
- A new democracy
- Mobility and the decent society
- Power and manipulation
- The dangers of absolute conviction
- The enemies of reason
- Information and reputation
- Engagement in a rapidly changing world
- American engagement
- Climate change and the energy challenge
- What we must do.