GLOBALIZATION: CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY
$14.95, 148 pages
ISBN: 0-87609-318-7
Publication Date: 2002

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Summary: This reader brings together an impressive collection of experts to explore the impacts and disentangle the thorny issues that the globalization debates raise. These pieces represent a cross-section of opinion on the subject, although most underscore that the benefits of integration far outweigh those of isolation.

Originally published in the pages of Foreign Affairs, the essays fall into four broad categories. The first explores just what the contemporary globalization trend has involved and whether its effects should be cheered or jeered. The second looks at how developing countries have fared in the new dispensation and what if anything can be done to help them prosper. The third analyzes how states and firms have reacted to the new pressures placed on them. And the fourth category treats the contemporary international economic architecture and the reforms to it, if any, that may be appropriate. Together these essays highlight the most important analytical questions about globalization today while suggesting some broad answers.