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Globalization
The
World Trade Organization - main international body
dealing with the rules of trade between nations. This is their site,
describing all WTO activities, including
the WTO agreements, the legal ground-rules for international commerce
and for trade policy.
The Global Trade
Watch -"The Global Trade Watch (GTW) was created in 1993 to
promote government and corporate accountability in an area on which
few public interest groups were focused: the international commercial
agreements shaping the current version of globalization. GTW is a division
of Public Citizen, the national consumer group founded in 1972 by Ralph
Nader."
Globalization
Research Center -
a forum run by CIO.com, a resource center for globetrotting information
executives. The site is a type of Webzine, with many news articles
and a few links to other international news and technology trend sites.
Perspectives
on Globalization - "Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic
History of the Twentieth Century" -
A paper on globalization by J. Bradford DeLong, Associate Professor
of Economics at UC-Berkeley and former deputy assistant secretary
for economic policy in the Department of the Treasury.
"Understanding
the Face of Globalization" - an online Internet resource guide
from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The Internet and Globalization
Internet and Globalization -
a website by Paula Uimonen, PhD. Based on her research and dissertation,
it "deals
with the social and cultural characteristics of the Internet and how
these relate to the broader, and often contradictory,
processes of modernization and globalization."
"Globalization
and the Internetworked World" - from a course taught by
Martin Irvine at Georgetown University.
"Globalisation & the Internet" - a page of links from the School
of Mathmatical Sciences at the Swinburne University of Technology in
Australia.
"Companies
Redefine National Borders: Why Internet Globalization is Local" - an article from
atnewyork.com.
"New Media & Globalization
in the Internet Age" - an address
by Professor Jon Anderson at an online conference sponsored by the Middle
East Virtual Community (MEVIC)..
The Internet and the Visibility of Local Cultures
"Cultural
Recognition and the Internet" - a paper by Erik Chia-Yi LEE. "Ever
since the advent of Internet, the issue of cultural recognition is
already
part
of the
cultural
struggle
for
visibility
on
the global network...issues like the global-local confrontations, the
cultural contrast between the West and the non-West, as well as the Internet's
influence on the cultural productions embodied in a language other than
English."
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