What Is Globalization?
Contributors: Patrick Camiller (Translator)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780745621258
Subjects: Geopolitics; Globalization; Politics / Current Events; International - Economics; History & Theory - General; Current Affairs; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International relations; International Relations - General; Human Geography; International; International economic relations
First sentence: The counter-revolution fails At the time when the Soviet empire was falling apart, Boris Yeltsin - who was then President of the Russian Federation - addressed the people of Moscow in a spirited speech against the Communist putschists from the top of an armoured car, a speech broadcast not by Soviet Radio (which was in the hands of the old Communists) but via CNN satellite.