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International Politics, GOV 207

Charles W. Kegley, Jr. and Eugene R. Wittkopf, World Politics:  Trend and Transformation, 8th Ed. Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001

Chapter Nine:  Globalization and the Disappearance of National Borders

  1. Global Information Age

  2. The Media:  Global Oligopoly
        New World Information and Communications Order (NWICO)

  3. Global Health or Global Infection

  4. Global Migration

  5. Globalization of Finance

  6. Globalization of Trade

  7. Globalization of Production

  8. Globalization of Labor

  9. Globalization and the State

Chapter Ten:  Population Politics and the Democraphic Dimensions of Globalization

  1. Tragedy of the Commons
        Carrying Capacity
        Sustainable Development

  2. Global Population Trends
        The Persian Chessboard

  3. Demographic Divide between Global North and Global South

  4. Population Momentum

  5. Demographic Transition

  6. Global Spread of HIV/AIDS

  7. Migration
        Refugees
        Displaced People

  8. Demography and National Security Issues
        Balance of Power
        Clash of Civilizations

  9. Global Food Supplies
        Pessimists or neo-Malthusians
        Optimists or Cornucopians
        Green Revolution
        Genetically Altered Foods

  10. Subordinate Status of Women
        Gender empowerment index
        Gender inequalities

Chapter Eleven:  Ecopolitics and the Preservation of the Global Commons

  1. Ecopolitics

  2. Environmental Security and Sustainable Development

  3. Ecopolitics of Energy
        Global Pattern of Oil Consumption
        Coal
        Natural Gas
        Wind, Water, Earth, and Sun
        Nuclear Power

  4. Ecopolitics of the Atmosphere
        Climate Change
        Greenhouse Effect
        Acid Rain
        Oxone Layer Depletion

  5. Ecopolitics of Forests and Biodiverity
        Shrinking Forests and Dust Bowls
        Desertification
        Biodiversity
        Enclosure Movement
        Genetic Engineering
        Transgenetic Crops
        Food Security
        Convention on Biodiversity
        Global Environmental Facility (GEF)

  6. Trade, the Environment, and Sustainable Development

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Spiegel and Wehling, World Politics in a New Era, 2nd Ed (1999), Chapter Ten "Global Issues", pp. 429 - 485

1.  World Population Transition

2.  Migration

3.  Food and Hunger

4.  The Environment

5.  Health and Disease

6.  Drugs

7.  Terrorism

8.  Energy and Natural Resources

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Barry B. Hughes, Continuity and Change in World Politics
Forces of Change, pp. 1 - 31, pp. 32 - 50. c1991

Politics:
1. Declining World Role of US and USSR

2. Growth of Destructive Potential

3. Increased Social Mobilization

Economics:
4. Global Economic Restructuring
    a. Industrial Revolution Diffusion
    b. Post-Industrial Change

5. The Demographic Transition

Environment:
6. Increasing Food Sufficiency

7. The Energy Transition

8. Growing Global Environmental Impact

Third World Problems

1.  Traditional Cultures

2.  Illiteracy and Lack of Technological Skills

3.  Population Explosion and Hunger

4.  Tribalism, Many Linguistic Groups, Lack of Unity

5.  Political Corruption: Government by Bribery

6.  Oppression as a Tool of Social Control

7.  Ruling Elites: Palaces, Mercedes, and Swiss Bank Accounts

8.  International Exploitation

9.  Terms of Trade
        Primary Products
copper, gold, tin sugar, coffee, bananas
        Raw Materials
        Plantation Agriculture

10.  Foreign Ownership, Multi-National Corporations

11.  Export Oriented Manufacturing
        Cheap labor, unions illegal

12.  Internal and External Inequality

13.  Modern Dictatorship

14.  Ecological Damage and Development

15.  Foreign Economic and Military Aid: Mixed Blessing

16.  Role of World Bank

 

Lester R. Brown, et al. State of the World 1992

1. Denial in the Decisive Decade

2. Conserving Biological Diversity

3. Building a Bridge to Sustainable Energy

4. Confronting Nuclear Waste

5. Reforming the Livestock Economy

6. Improving Women's Reproductive Health

7. Mining the Earth

8. Shaping Cities

9. Creating Sustainable Jobs in Industrial Countries

10. Strengthening Global Environmental Governance

11. Launching the Environmental Revolution

Annual Editions: Third World: 92/93

1. Understanding the Third World

2. People, Power, and Leadership

3. Stability, Crisis, and Revolution

4. The Limits of American Power

5. Human Rights and Democratic Rule

6. Easing the Debt Crisis

7. A World in Change