Contradictions of globalization
Subtitle: democracy, culture, and public sphere
By: edited, with an introduction, by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ; contributors, Clifford Chanin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: International House of Japan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9784903452098; 9784903452097
Subjects: Globalization
Notes: A collection of papers and writings contributed to a seminar entitled "Questioning from the borderline: cross-cultural dialogue in tackling a global agenda" and a symposium entitled "Globalization and cultural exchange," both held in 2006 at the reopening of the International House of Japan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The good and the bad: the multiple meanings of globalization / Saskia Sassen; title: Democracy, globalization and localities: the political trade-off in Indonesia / Ignas Kleden; title: The promise and peril of democracy in the age of globalization / G. John Ikenberry; title: the age of inequality / P. Sainath; title: Multiculturalism without borders: rethinking rainbow nations in a global age / Tessa Morris-Suzuki; title: Islam and fractured viewpoints of the nation-state: the role and challenges of the public intellectual / Maznah Mohamad; title: The changing role of journalism: the prospects for improving rather than eroding global understanding / James Fallows; title: The communal past and the global future / Clifford Chanin; title: Toward a globally connected, public social science / Mary Byrne McDonnell.