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"In this timely book, Peter Marber demystifies globalization and analyzes new international megatrends and interconnections. With suggestions on how America can reassert its historic leadership on the new global arena, Seeing the Elephant will show readers how the U.S. still remains the planet's best chance at building enduring peace and prosperity."--Jacket.

Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering an overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization. [from publisher's advertisement].

This provocative book explains why neoclassical economic theory cannot account for the costs of doing business in the global environment Annotation. The fundamental problem is that the neoclassical economic conception of the relationship between parts such as economic actors and firms, and whole market systems is totally incompatible with the environmental relationships between organisms and the whole ecosystem or the biosphere, says Nadeau (history...

This work aims to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are not likely to abate soon. With analysis and primary documents from a variety of popular and uncommon sources, Robin Broad explores proposals and initiatives coming from the backlash to answer the question, "But what do they want?" A range of propositions and a debate among segments of the backlash emerge.

The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, the author focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence,...