Chapter 21: Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: Globalization 1975-1999
Research Topics
Globalization represents different things to different people. The following documents offer various overviews of important issues, promises, and pitfalls emanating from globalization patterns over the last three decades. As you examine these sources, identify the major points of contention between those who view globalization positively and those who are less sanguine. What are the promises of globalization? What concerns for certain populations has it raised? How effectively have world societies attempted to alleviate some of these issues? What problems do these issues pose for the future?
Featured Documents
- Remarks by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, Before the Bundesbank Lecture 2004, Berlin, Germany, January 13, 2004
- Speech by the Honourable Paul Martin, Minister of Finance for Canada, at a luncheon organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee and The Conference Board of Canada, November, 2001
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
- Declaration on the Right to Development (4 Dec 1986)
- Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples, Report of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations on its fourteenth session (Geneva, 29 July2 August 1996)
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