Also worth
reading on
globalization...
Publishers seem to have been struck by globalization fever too and tend to
stick this dreadful word on almost anything. There are some notable exceptions,
and William Greider, One World, Ready or Not, Simon and
Schuster, New York, 1997, is probably 
the best of them. Sharp analysis is accompanied by eloquent accounts of real
life around the world, both inside and outside the magic, globalizing circle.
But he doesn't devote much space to the alternatives. Tom Athanasiou,
Divided Planet, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1996, provides
a brilliant synthesis of radical thinking on the environment and social justice.
David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, World View
Publications, PO Box 595, Oxford OX2 6YH, UK a seminal work which he
is now following up with a new book that will deal with the alternatives
is still recommended. Graham Dunkley, The Free Trade Adventure,
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1997 reminds you that there are
alternative technical fixes on offer.
For the most part, however, you're better off with magazines like Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, which comes from the Positive Futures Network, PO Box 10818, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, USA,e-mail: yes@futurenet.org; website: http://www.futurenet.org. The best running commentary from the South comes, as usual, from Third World Network Features, which is based at the Consumers' Association of Penang, 228 Macalister Road, 10400 Penang, Malaysia.
There is a good range of books on Globalization available for purchase online. Try the New Internationalist online shop at www.newint.org/catalog and also Word Power at http://www.word-power.co.uk/ .
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