Focus On Globalization

Compiled by: L. Heckman

Introduction
Books by and about Globalization may be found listed in the Libraries’ catalog. To locate books, do a subject search on “globalization.”. Materials listed here represent items on both the Queens and Staten Island campuses. Those available only on the Queens campus have been marked with an asterisk (*).

The following items are representative samples from the Libraries’ collection.

Circulating Books
This is a selected list of books that can be checked out from the Queens and/or Staten Island Libraries.

Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible. / Alternatives Task Force of the International Forum on Globalization…San Francisco, California: Berrett-Koehler, 2002. (HF 1359 A547 2002)*

Beck, Ulrich. What is Globalization? Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2000. (HF 1359 B413 2000)

Bhagwati, Jagdish N. The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, (HF 1455 B48 2000)*

Brennan, Teresa. Globalization and its Terrors: Daily Life in the West. New York: Routledge, 2003. (JZ 1318 B74 2003)*

Cohen, Edward S. The Politics of Globalization in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000. (HC 106.82 C64 2001)*

Demystifying Globalization/ Edited by Colin Hay and David Marsh. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave in association with POLSIS, University of Birmingham, 2000. (JZ 1318 D46 2000b)*

Globalization and its Victims/ Edited by Jon Sobrino and Felix Wilfred. London: SCM Press, 2001. (BT 738.45 G55 2001)

Helliwell, John F. Globalization and Well-Being. Vancouver, UBC Press, 2002. (HF 1359 H43 2002)*

Kitching, G.N. Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization: Escaping a Nationalist Perspective. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. (HM 671 K57 2001)

Mittelman, James H. The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. (HF 1359 M58 2000)

Reshaping Globalization: Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives. / Edited by Andrea Krizsan and Violetta Zentai. Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 2003. (HF 1352 R465 2003)*

Schoonover, Thomas David. Uncle Sam’s War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization. Lexingon: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. (E715 S36 2003)*

Singer, Peter. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2002. (BJ 1500 G56 S56 2002)

Steger, Manfred B. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. (JZ 1318 S74 2003)*

Torres, Raymond. Towards a Socially Sustainable World Economy: An Analysis of the Social Pillars of Globalization. Geneva: ILO, 2001. (HF 1418.5 T67 2001)*

Government Documents
Blanchflower, David. Globalization and the Labor Market (electronic resource). Washington, D.C.: Trade Deficit Committee, 2000. (Resource: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS30665)

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection. WTO 2000 : the next round : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, November 4, 1999. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1999. (Gov. Doc. Y 4.C 73/8: 106-71)*

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Securities. Competition and transparency in the financial marketplace of the future : hearing before the Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session on the impact of globalization, innovation, and technology on competition in the U.S. securities markets, April 26, 2000. Washington, D.C.: US. G.P.O., 2001. ( Gov Doc. Y 4 . B 22/3: S.HRG. 106-122)*

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. U.S. trade policy in the era of globalization : hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, January 26, 27, and 28, 1999. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1999. ( Gov. Doc. Y.4.49 S.HRT.106-45)*

Media Materials
The Global Generation [videorecording] / Cadec Pictures ; Shoot for the Top Productions ; producer, Stephen Gardner ; executive producer & director, Wilson R. Ruiz. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and the Sciences, 2002. 6 videocassettes. (Media Center Video JZ 1318 G54 2002)

Globalization [videorecording] : winner[s] and losers. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and the Sciences, 2000. (Media Center Video HF 1379 G557 2000)*

Periodicals
This is a selective list of periodicals to which the Queens and/or Staten Island Libraries subscribe and that contain articles relevant to this topic. Please note that some periodicals are available in electronic full-text format (see Full Text eJournals)

  • Business Week
  • Corporate Governance
  • The Economist
  • Foreign Policy
  • Fortune
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Harvard International Review
  • Journal of Multinational Financial Management
  • Journal of Public Affairs
  • Journal of World Business

Online Databases
These are online databases that are of particular interest for this subject. Selected databases include full-text coverage of journal articles. Also included are the citations of a number of articles that may be useful for this topic. For a complete listing of our databases, please check the Libraries' Databases A-Z page.

  • CIAO. Columbia International Affairs Online (full-text)
  • EBSCOhost (full-text)
  • JSTOR (full-text)
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe (full-text)
  • PAIS International (citations and abstracts)
  • Political Science Abstracts (citations and abstracts)
  • ProQuest Direct (ABI/INFORM)
  • ScienceDirect (full-text)

Periodical Articles
The following is a selection of articles from ScienceDirect using the search term “globalization.”

Harms, Philipp and Carsten Hefeker. “Globalization and Unemployment: The Role of International Diversification.” Economics Letters, Vol. 78, Iss. 2, February 2003, pages 281-286.

Harvey, Michael. “The Hypercompetitive Global Marketplace: The Importance of Intuition and Creativity in Expatriate Managers.” Journal of World Business, Vol. 37, Iss. 2, Summer 2002, pages 127-138.

Johnson, D. Gale. “Globalization: What it is and who benefits.” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 13, Iss. 4, July-August 2002, pages 427-439.

Milanovic, Bronco. “The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It.” World Development , Vol . 33, Iss. 4, April 2003, pages 667-683.

Moshirian, Fariborz. “Globalization and Financial Market Integration.” Journal of Multinational Financial Management , Vol. 13, Issues 4-5, December 2003, pages 289-302.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Growth in Emerging Markets and the New Economy.” Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 25, Iss. 5, July 2003, pages 505-524.

The following is a selection of articles from ProQuest ABI/INFORM using the search term “globalization.”

Hatcher, Mark. “New Corporate Agendas.” Journal of Public Affairs, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, March 2003, pages 32-38.

Henry, Clement. “ A Clash of Globalizations.” Harvard International Review, Vol. 25, Iss. 1, Spring 2003, pages 60-64.

“Measuring Globalization.” Foreign Policy, March-April 2004, pages 54-70.

Moller, J. Orstrom. “Wanted: A New Strategy for Globalization.” The Futurist, Vol. 38, Iss. 1, January/February 2004, page 20.

O’Neill, Tim. “Globalization: Fads, Fictions, and Facts.” Business Economics, Vol. 39, Iss. 1, pages 16-27.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. “The Human Face of Globalization.” Across the Board, Vol. 41, Iss. 2, March/April 2004, page 9.

E-Books
The following are relevant e-book selections from the St. John’s University NetLibrary collection. To locate books, go to NetLibrary and search keyword “globalization.”

Cohen, Malcolm S. and Mahmood A. Zaidi. Global Skill Shortages. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2002.

Ellison, Anthony P. Entrepreneurs and the Transformation of the Global Economy. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2002.

Korine, Harry and Pierre Yves-Gomez. The Leap to Globalization: Creating New Business Values from Business without Borders. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Lewis, Richard D. The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 2003.

Lindsey, Brink. Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Wei, Shang-Jin and others. The Globalization of the Chinese Economy. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2002.

Web Sites
The following list contains links to a few web sites on this topic that have been selected for the quality and relevance of their content.

Brookings Institution (Globalization project) (http://www.brookings.edu/dybdocroot/globalization/) Features access to full-text of speeches by Brookings Institute scholars.

Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CSGR/) The Centre, at the University of Warwick, promotes research concerning the definition, measurement, impacts, and policy implications of globalisation and regionalisation. Working papers are available full-text, online.

Commission on Globalisation (http://www.commissiononglobalization.org/) The strategic intent of activities of the Commission is to build a global coalition of individuals and institutions committed to exercising democracy at the global level. Features full-text of speeches, announcements of conferences, press releases, and meeting summaries.

Globalization Research Network (http://www.globalgrn.org/) The Globalization Research Network “brings together the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of South Florida, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the George Washington University into a collective arrangement that permits each to pursue globalization research while pursuing a particularized area expertise.” Highlights of the site include an introduction to globalization.

Institute for International Economics (http://www.iie.com) Contains full-text of policy briefs related to globalization including labor issues, world trade, pros and cons, and the international financial system.

International Forum on Globalization (http://www.ifg.org) Presents news reports, conference information on globalization.

Stanford Institute for International Studies (http://iis.stanford.edu/) Contains full-text publications related to topics on international studies (including globalization) by Institute faculty members. each of the other sister centers has its own special area of interest

What You Need to Know about Globalization (http://globalization.about.com/) Online guide to globalization features definitions, pro and con arguments, full-text of current articles

World Bank (http://www.worldbank.org) The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing worldIncludes statistics, country reports, conference information and news releases on globalization.

World Trade Organization (http://www.wto.org/) The stated purpose of the WTO is “the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.” Contains full-text access of speeches, news briefs, etc. related to globalization.

* Available only at the Library on the Queens Campus.