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World Economic Forum - http://www.weforum.org/
The Davos meeting of political and business leaders aims to create the foremost global partnership of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of civil society to define and discuss the key issues on the global agenda. |
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HBS Working Knowledge: Globalization - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/topic.jhtml?t=globalization
Links to articles and comments related to the topic. |
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The Globalist - http://www.theglobalist.com/
The daily online magazine on the global economy, politics and culture. |
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The Heritage Foundation - http://www.heritage.org/
A conservative think tank that is at the forefront of the pro-globalization perspective |
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Canadian International Development Agency - http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index-e.htm
News, background and resources about global issues and sustainable economic development, from a Canadian government-supported agency. |
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UNCTAD/UNDP Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development - http://www.unctad-undp.org/
UN project which seeks sustainable development and economic integration of developing countries into the global economy. Includes comprehensive list of institutions working on the topic. |
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Globalization. Threat or Opportunity? - http://imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm
Brief subject to periodical reviews by International Monetary Fund Staff. It shows a set of key questions and answers on the subject such as: roles of countries and governments, growth, poverty and inequality, and impacts on workers. |
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Global Policy Forum - http://www.globalpolicy.org/
News, information, analysis and resources from an organization that monitors UN policy making on the matter and promotes accountability of global decisions. |
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Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative - http://realizingrights.org/
Addresses five issues required for greater human development and security: fostering more equitable international trade and development, strengthening efforts to realise the human right to health, shaping more humane migration policies, encouraging women’s leadership, and influencing corporate social responsibility. |
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Ethical Globalization Initiative - http://www.eginitiative.org/
Brings key stakeholders together in new alliances to integrate concepts of human rights, gender sensitivity and enhanced accountability into efforts to address global challenges and governance shortcomings. |
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Yale Center for the Study of Globalization - http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/
The Center supports teaching and research on globalization, helps to enrich debate on the subject through workshops, conferences, and lectures, and responds quickly to important events by organizing timely public programs that bring together individuals from the University community with individuals active in the policy arena. From Yale University. |
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Center for Research on Globalization - http://globalresearch.ca/
An independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of "globalisation" and "disarming" the new world order. Bilingual, English and French. |
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Globalisation and Poverty Research Programme - http://www.gapresearch.org/
A three-year program of research exploring the linkages between globalization processes and poverty. Funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), a United Kingdom government ministry. |
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Globalization101 - http://www.globalization101.org/
A project of Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce, promotes a greater understanding of the challenges and dilemmas of globalization. |
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A Fair Globalization: Creating Opportunities for All - http://www.ilo.org/public/english/wcsdg/docs/report.pdf
Analyzes impacts of the globalized world with the focus on people. Report by The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, International Labour Organization, 2004. |
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Globalization - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
Encyclopedia article on globalization and its various aspects. |
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Corporate Watch - http://www.corpwatch.org/
An organization that counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. Works to foster democratic control over corporations by building movement for human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice. Articles, campaigns, links, news, and contact information. |
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International Forum on Globalization - http://www.ifg.org/
Alliance formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization and its impact. Events, programs, news and analysis from an anti-globalization perspective. |
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The Globalization Website - http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/
Resources on various issues related to the issue from Emory University. |
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GEP - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/leverhulme/
A British institute whose activities are structured around research programs covering the impacts on globalization on labour markets, economic policy, productivity and technology. |
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Global Education Network - http://www.glen-europe.org/
An European network for learning in the field of global development issues and cooperation policy. Core activities are related to development of countries in Africa, Asia or South East Europe. |
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Globalisation Guide - http://www.globalisationguide.org/
Eleven key questions on the subject with selected links to opinion leaders and thinkers. |
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Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation - http://www.warwick.ac.uk/csgr/
From the University of Warwick, UK. Research concentrates on questions such as social policy issues, international financial crises, multijurisdictional tax competition, development of global and regional governance and other civil society activities regarding the topics. |
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Institute for International Economics - Globalization - http://www.iie.com/research/researcharea.cfm?ResearchTopicID=3
Collection of papers on this topic by members the organization. |
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Transnational Communities Programme - http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/
A research programme with the goal of looking into the human dimensions of globalization and aspects of emerging transnationalism. Commissioned by the United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council, based in the University of Oxford - Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. |
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Anti-globalization Movement - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-globalization_movement
Encyclopedia article on the movement opposing globalization. |
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From the Wilderness: Oil, Politics and War - http://www.fromthewilderness.com
Provides a foundation for understanding oil's role in the global economy. |
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Global Envision - http://www.globalenvision.org/
A web initiative of Mercy Corps with news and information on globalization, world business, poverty, global growth, and world trade. It aims to take the global free market system as a starting point for reducing world poverty. |
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Free Trade and Globalization - http://www.globalissues.org/issue/38/free-trade-and-globalization
Looks at the reality of free trade and the impacts it has on everyone. |
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Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition - http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/
An intellectual center of McMaster University in Canada, bringing together faculty, students and members of the broader community for discussion, debate and analysis of globalization and its effects. |
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Globalization: Index - http://globalization.icaap.org/
A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the examination of social, political, economic, and technological aspects of the topic, by The International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ICAAP). |
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Global Exchange: Economic Alternatives - http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/alternatives/
Advocates for democratic alternatives to top-down economic globalization. |
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Global Issues Gateway - http://www.gig.org/
An educational website created by Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA, for those investigating issues arising from the rapid exchange of goods and ideas across increasingly porous geographic and cultural borders. |
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Global Marshall Plan - http://www.globalmarshallplan.org/index_eng.html
An initiative for the implementation of a global eco-social development plan as a basis for a worldwide ecological and social market economy. |
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Millennium Development Goals - http://esl.jrc.it/envind/mdg.htm
A free database that provides 60 indicators for 200 countries and 15 years from the Millennium Development Summit. Presents official UN global statistics in an easy-to-understand format aimed at citizens interested in the topic. |
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LifeWeb: The Biology of Globalization - http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/globalize.html
Opinion article by Elisabet Sahtouris, it points out the threats of the economy of globalization against the basic principles by which healthy living systems are organized, 1998. |
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Global Balance - http://www.global-balance.org/
Provides an environment of information exchange, integration and support to assist NGOs and their projects to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals. |
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Challenges of the Global Century - http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/Books_2001/Challenges%20of%20the%20Global%20Century%20June%202001/GloCenCont.html
A report of the project on Globalization and National Security that displays the key features of the topic, as well as its challenges, impacts, and implications for the US policies. By Stephen J. Flanagan, Ellen L. Frost, and Richard L. Kugler. US National Defense University, 2001. |
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Globalization and the Postmodern Turn - http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/dk/GLOBPM.htm
A paper by Douglas Kellner, from the Graduate School of Education, UCLA, USA. |
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Fantasy World Order - http://www.fantasyworldorder.com/
Offers a quiz to help visitors determine their position in the globalization debate. Includes overall results. |
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Wuppertal Institute on Globalisation - http://www.wupperinst.org/globalisation/
A German research center that explores social and ecological impacts, and develops strategies to make globalization fair and sustainable. |
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International Social Observatory - http://www.observatoire-social.com/english/
Intends to contribute to integration of social, ethical and environmental dimensions in the globalization process. |
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Capitalistocracy Book Café - Canadian Association for Research on Capitalistocracy - http://www.capitalistocracy.com/
Facilitates critical research on corporate globalization and capitalism. Accepts freelance writers. |
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The Global Century - Globalization and National Security - http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/Books_2001/Global%20Century%20-%20June%202001/globcencont.html
Examines impacts of globalization on world affairs and the task of forging responsive policies and strategies. Also, an in-depth analysis of global and regional trends. Edited by Richard L. Kugler and Ellen L. Frost, National Defense University. |
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Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age - http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair59/m59cont.html
Examines the relationship of intentions and capabilities—more precisely, of openness and power—in the information age, taking China as the case in point. Postulates that although power remains important in world politics, globalization has transformed its character, correlates, and consequences. By David Gompert,McNair Paper 59, US National Defense University, May 1998. |
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ICC World Business Organization - http://www.iccwbo.org/home/menu_case_for_the_global_economy.asp
Comments, news and information resources from pro-globalization perspective, contending a global market economy will bring prosperity and other benefits to millions. Section of website of the International Chamber of Commerce. |
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Special Issue on Globalization -- Journal of World-Systems Research - http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol5/number2/
Explores the topic in its economic, political, and cultural dimensions. |
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Monopolis - http://monopolis.net/
A presentation of relevant social, economic, and demographic about the globalized world. [German, English and Spanish] |
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The Information Age - http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/Books%20-%201998/Information%20Age%20Anthology%20-%20Sept%2098/index.html
A book that undertakes the task of understanding the globalization of information and communication technologies. Based on historical fact, reasoned speculation about future trends, and informed analysis about the impacts that those trends might have on human affairs and the international system. Several authors. Edited by David S. Alberts and Daniel S. Papp for the US National Defense University, 2002. |
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Globalization's Stir-Fry - http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=globalizations_stirfry
An article about how the new global economy changes long-accepted notions and arguments about American business. Authored by Harold Meyerson, Jun 2007. |
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Globalization and National Environmental Policy - http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/globus/activities/con-22092003.html.print
Taking stock of changes in government interventions in response to globalization. Koningshof, Veldhoven, The Netherlands on September 22-24, 2003. |
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Outsource Outrage - http://www.outsourceoutrage.com
Providing facts and figures on who's outsourcing and how it affects workers. |
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Documents Relating to the Process of Globalization - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/globaliz.htm
Links to articles and essays from the web site of the Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. |
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Globalization and Maritime Power - http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/Books_2002/Globalization_and_Maritime_Power_Dec_02/01_toc.htm
A study about the implications of globalization theory and facts in the design of national defense policies. Edited by Sam Tangredy, Institute for National Strategic Studies, US National Defense University, 2002. |
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Friends of the Earth: MAI - http://www.foe.co.uk/pubsinfo/briefings/html/19980424100502.html
Commentary, analysis and links to websites about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. |