Global issues
By: Robert M. Jackson, editor
Edition: 22nd ed.
Series: Annual editions
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780073516035
Subjects: Social prediction; Modern Civilization; Social problems; Global issues
Other titles: Annual editions :
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: GLOBAL ISSUES IN THE 21st CENTURY: A special moment in history / Bill McKibben; title: It's a flat world after all / Thomas L. Friedman; title: Can extreme poverty be eliminated? / Jeffery D. Sachs; title: Success without victory / James Fallows; title: Five meta-trends changing the world / David Pearce Snyder; title: The ends of the world as we know them / Jared Diamond; title: POPULATION AND FOOD PRODUCTION: The big crunch / Jeffrey Kluger; title: Scary strains / Anne Underwood and Jerry Adler; title: Bittersweet harvest: the debate over genetically modified crops; title: THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES UTILIZATION: Deflating the world's bubble economy / Lester R. Brown; title: Shifting the pain: world's resources feed California's growing appetite / Tom Knudson; title: Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows / Jonathan Leake; title: POLITICAL ECONOMY: Globalization and its contents / Peter Marber; title: The world is spiky / Richard Florida; title: The five wars of Globalization / Moisés Naim; title: Will globalization go bankrupt? / Michael Pettis; title: Soccer vs. McWorld / Franklin Foer; title: America's sticky power / Walter Russell Mead; title: Where the money went / James S. Henry; title: Political graft: the Russian way / Marshall I. Goldman; title: Is Chile a neoliberal success? / James M. Cypher; title: India's hype, hope, and hazards / Mahmood H. Butt; title: What's wrong with this picture? / Mark Crispin Miller; title: The fall of the House of Saud / Robert Baer; title: The breaking point / Peter Maass; title: Nuclear now! / Peter Schwarts and Spencer Reiss; title: Looking into the sun / David H. Freedman; title: CONFLICT: Our greatest threat: the coming nuclear crisis / Douglas Roche; title: Lifting the veil: understanding the roots of Islamic militancy / Henry Munson; title: Blowback revisited / Peter Bergen and Alec Reynolds; title: Holy orders: Religious opposition to modern states; title: COOPERATION: Strategies for world peace: the view of the UN Secretary-General / Kofi  Annan; title: Peace in our time; title: The ultimate crop insurance / Janet Raloff; title: Teamwork urged on bird flu / David Brown; title: Medicine without doctors / Geoffrey Cowley; title: VALUES AND VISIONS: Humanity's common values: seeking a positive future / Wendell Bell; title: Women's rights: not just for Westerners / Azar Nafisi; title: The Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus; title: America's looming creativity crisis / Richard Florida; title: What lurks in its soul? / David A. Vise; title: Women waging peace / Swanee Hunt and Cristina Posa.