Omnivore - Society in a Globalizing World

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this new collection of links examines a variety of social issues as the world becomes increasingly globalized.

Society in a globalizing world

Mar 17 2014
3:00PM

• Patrick Heller (Brown): Challenges and Opportunities: Civil Society in a Globalizing World. 
• Jeanet Sinding Bentzen, Nicolai Kaarsen, and Asger Moll Wingender (Copenhagen): The Timing of Industrialization Across Countries. 
• Partha Dasgupta (Cambridge): The Nature of Economic Development and the Economic Development of Nature. 
• Collin Constantine and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (New School): How Nations Succeed: A Review of the Reversal of Fortune Thesis. 
• Jamie Bologna (WVU): Corruption: The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain. 
• Michael J. Mazarr (NWC): The Rise and Fall of the Failed-State Paradigm: Requiem for a Decade of Distraction. 
• Danny Auron (Fordham): The Derecognition Approach: Government Illegality, Recognition, and Non-Violent Regime Change. 
• Patricia M. Muhammad (CBSC): The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Legacy Establishing a Case for International Reparations. 
• Mark Busser (McMaster): Global Ethics and the Power Relations of Responsibility. 
• Jordan J. Paust (Houston): The U.S. and the ICC: No More Excuses. 
• Mark J. Osiel on the demise of international criminal law. 
• Adis Duderija on patriarchy as a major impediment to world peace today. 
• The 10,000-year-old economy: Geography and history stack the deck against poor countries. 
• Plucking the geese: Traditional ways of raising tax do not work well in a globalised world. 
• Bill Gates on the “wager of the decade” and its unfortunate legacy. 
• From Rolling Stone, Jeff Goodall interviews Bill Gates on how to save the planet. 
• You can download The Idea of Human Rights by Charles R. Beitz (2009), and download Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy by Alison Brysk (2009).