Contemporary readings in globalization / editor Scott R. Sernau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A changing world -- Awakening giants, feet of clay / Pranab Bardhan -- The Wal-Mart you don't know / Charles Fishman -- The radical thesis on globalization and the case of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez / Steve Ellner -- A coffee connoisseur on a mission / Michaele Weissman -- The great turning: from empire to earth community / David Korten -- Inequality and poverty -- Always with us: Jeffrey Sachs's plan to eliminate poverty / John Cassidy -- Born into bondage / Paul Raffaele -- Pulling rickshaws in the city of Dhaka / Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen -- The good samaritans: Melinda Gates, Bono, and Bill Gates / Nancy Gibbs -- Violencia femicida: violence against women and Mexico's structural crisis / Mercedes Olivera -- How one company brought hope to the poor / Marco Visscher -- Education -- The right to education in a globalized world / Ronald Lindahl -- Breaking down notions of us and them: answering globalization with global learning / Angelo Carfagna -- A would-be pilot, hitting turbulence on the ground / Michael Wines -- Conflict -- France: the riots and the republic / Graham Murray -- Torture: the struggle over a peremptory norm in a counter-terrorist era / Rosemary Foot -- Peace and democracy for Haiti: a UN mission impossible? / David M. Malone -- Globalization and the study of international security / Victor D. Cha -- The biggest failure: a new approach to help the world's internally displaced people / Ray Wilkinson -- Health -- Outsourcing your heart / Unmesh Kher -- Rumor, fear and fatigue hinder final push to end polio / Celia W. Dugger and Donald. G. McNeil, Jr -- Aids and health-policy responses in European welfare states / Monika Steffen -- US plan to lure nurses may hurt poor nations / Celia W. Dugger -- Energy -- Exploitation of energy resources in Africa / Julia Maxted -- While Washington slept / Mark Hertsgaard -- Some convenient truths: stopping global warming / Gregg Easterbrook -- Environment -- Slum like it not: in the world's slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide / Mike Davis -- Tropic of answer: ecotourism / Charles Munn -- Strangers in the forest / Lawrence Osborne -- In American waters / Scott Sernau -- Index.