TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Ian AU - Figgins,Robert J. TI - Globalization: background, agreements and current issues SN - 9781619420755 (hbk.) PY - 2012/// CY - Hauppauge, N.Y. PB - Nova Science Pub. KW - Globalization KW - International cooperation KW - International economic relations N1 - Includes index; This book presents current research in the field of globalization; Preface -- Europe’s preferential trade agreements: status, content, and implications / Raymond J. Ahearn -- NATO common funds burdensharing: background and current issues / Carl Ek -- Monitoring and verification in arms control / Amy F. Woolf -- Foreign aid: international donor coordination of development assistance / Marian Leonardo Lawson -- Foreign science and engineering presence in U.S. institutions and the labor force / Christine M. Matthews -- Foreign aid reform, national strategy, and the quadrennial review / Susan B. Epstein -- Detection of nuclear weapons and materials: science, technologies, observations / Jonathan Medalia -- The trans-Pacific partnership agreement / Ian F. Fergusson and Bruce Vaughn -- A new United Nations entity for women: issues for Congress / Luisa Blanchfield ER -