Seeking Balance: Philosophical Issues in Globalization and Policy Making
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 379
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface xi; title: Acknowledgments xix; title: 1 Globalization and the Ideal of a Single Global Community 1; title: Dialogue 13; title: 2 Varieties of Globalization 17; title: Dialogue 35; title: 3 Contemporary Business and Technology:A Multicentered World 37; title: Dialogue 63; title: 4 Old Habits, New Challenges, and Economic Policy:Argentina’sForeshadowing Case 65; title: Dialogue 85; title: 5 Globalization or Modernization? Views from theDeveloping World 87; title: Dialogue 100; title: 6 Globalization Issues, Moral Theory, and Moral Practice 103; title: Dialogue 120; title: 7 Prominent Ethical Theories and this Book’s Theoretical Framework 123; title: Dialogue 171; title: 8 Eco-Diplomacy: Reclaiming the Green Continent 175; title: Dialogue 198; title: 9 The Andean Oil Rush: A Magnet for Development Agents from All Continents 201; title: Dialogue 226; title: 10 Biotechnology Goes Worldwide: Between Luddism and Transhumanism 227; title: Dialogue 249; title: 11 The Factual, the Virtual, and the Fictional in the Widening World; title: ofArt, Science, and Technology 251; title: Dialogue 270; title: 12 Walking the Information Overload Tightrope in Ever-Expanding Cyberspace 273; title: Dialogue 293; title: 13 Globalized Cyberwars: How Much Autonomy Should Robotic Weapons Have? 295; title: Dialogue 309; title: 14 Worlds in Transition, Structures of Social Life, and Cooperation among Strangers 311; title: Dialogue 325; title: 15 Globalization, Migrations, and Personal Identity 327; title: Dialogue 345; title: Glossary 347; title: Bibliography 353; title: Index 381